Another grim and depressing slice of true crime from Australia, very similar to the bleak SNOWTOWN in look and tone. I didn't like this one at all, feeling it too much of a standard 'torture porn' movie; plus, there's very little story here, just a girl chained in a house with a psycho and his wife. Inevitably the focus is on creepy 'male gaze' nudity and the degradation and humiliation of women with a bit of animal abuse on the side. Utterly nihilistic in terms of character and tone, it just serves as a reminder of man's inhumanity and misogyny and it's one I could have done without.
Review of Hounds of Love
