Gee... you'd be pardoned for thinking that you'd seen it all before. The many versions of Jane Eyre (poor Jane having to deal with Mr Rochester's crazy wife), Julie Harris in The Haunting, stuck in that death trap house in the country with the crazy servants, Deborah Kerr in The Innocents, having to deal with a sinister family setup: all these examples of women in jeopardy because of the paternalistic attitudes of the supporting characters.
Well now we have yet another tale of a woman in danger in a remote country house--it will take four hours for her friend to drive there to give support--and the only difference is the men are all played by Rory Kinnear, who is a fine actor but overworked here. I have to admit I'm really not a fan of Alex Garland: his films seem to play to well established patterns that audiences will go for. The blood all over the set does look real.
Well now we have yet another tale of a woman in danger in a remote country house--it will take four hours for her friend to drive there to give support--and the only difference is the men are all played by Rory Kinnear, who is a fine actor but overworked here. I have to admit I'm really not a fan of Alex Garland: his films seem to play to well established patterns that audiences will go for. The blood all over the set does look real.