In the mid-1980s 17-year-old Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. Suspecting the many problems plaguing her captors, and attuned to marital issues following her parents’ recent split, Vicki fights for her life by trying to expose their disharmony.
1 April 1976, Australia
1976, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1982, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
7 December 1987, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
11 November 1992
May 18, 2017
The snail's-pace horizontal pans, under-the-flight-path score, and other arthouse affectations had collided with the overall unlikeability of the major characters violently enough to make me consider jumping ship.
May 13, 2017
Women are held prisoner and other women must free them. And sometimes, it's impossible to watch.
May 12, 2017
This movie grabs you by the throat and squeezes.
May 12, 2017
The central performances are riveting ... but the torture Young depicts, even only if it's suggestive rather than blatant, can be difficult to digest over the course of almost two long hours.
May 18, 2017
Hounds of Love is an intelligent piece of grounded horror, and an outstanding debut film.
May 12, 2017
What is it about Australian filmmakers and down-and-dirty, no-holds-barred crime dramas? Let's not figure out why they're so good at them and simply enjoy.
May 19, 2017
While Hounds Of Love is certainly an acquired taste, it's also a rare film that will ruminate and still terrify you days after you've seen it.
May 11, 2017
What makes the torment worth enduring is the trio of ferocious performances at its center, bare and ugly and unvarnished.
May 12, 2017
Young is more interested in the abused than the abuser, and the result is an ambitious, tough-to-swallow drama fuelled by fearless performances and extraordinary empathy.
May 22, 2017
Once this thing starts bouncing around your brain, good luck getting it out.
May 12, 2017
Hounds of Love is a sinister, psychologically screwy thriller that stands on its own merits, radiating a dreamy, deviant vision of female subjugation, and empowerment.
May 12, 2017
Among the fine cast, Booth stands out as the confused, on-edge Evelyn.
May 12, 2017
It's a rough film, but an insightful one that offers a glimpse into the abyss not soon forgotten.
May 12, 2017
Ben Young's abduction horror says more by showing less.
May 12, 2017
An ugly film whose ambitions are never matched by its creators' limited abilities.
May 11, 2017
It's a tense, sharply assembled debut feature from Ben Young. Its main problem, though, is that it never answers a basic question: Why are we watching this?
