Hounds of Love

An interesting (and bloody) look at the dusty underpouch of low-income 80s Australia, complete with spag bol and goon. Spag bol? Goon? I asked my friend from the land of quokka soccer and tortured tourists why all Australian slang sound like racial slurs. He said it was because all Australian slang *is* racial slurs.

worth a watch

Anne-kız, ergen, rehine, gerilim, psikopat çift, yayağa bağlamak, (Annesiyle babasi ayrilmis olan ve annesiyle geçirdiği hafta sonunda evde durmayip partiye gitmek için evden kaçan bir kiz. Yolda kendisine yardimci olmak isten bir çiftin arabasina biner. Fakat bu çift iyi niyetli değildir. Kız, adamın kadına kötü davrandigini fark eder. Bunu kullanmaya calisir. fakat kizi alikoyan iki kişide tam bi boktur.)

Hounds of Love is a thriller set in '80s Australia centered around a disturbed couple who abduct teenage girls. There are some great performances but the film is let down by a lackluster ending.

Started off strong and I liked the soundtrack and atmosphere but I really didn't like the ending. Tries to force a weird message/character development that just feels off and the cinematography is at odds with the first 3/4 by taking on a much more dramatic tone. Combined with the completely unsubtle final song choice and I was rolling my eyes as the movie ended.

The abduction/serial killer genre hasn't been done much better than Hounds of Love. It's the fantastic performances, music choices, and moody slow motion usage that elevate it to an art form. It's a tough but rewarding watch.

I have seen many good Australian horror films, but this is the first one that did NOT have a car chase in it. Really well made but the ending doesn't quite deliver on the quality of payoff demanded by all the strong buildup

Hounds of Love is very upsetting and brutal and it's not something you enjoy watching. You're putting your hopes in the nightmare ending for the main character and the criminals getting their due, but otherwise, it's really disturbing to watch. The way the story unfolds seems a bit uneven, but the acting is top notch here, especially with the main female leads. Emma Booth came across as the Australian version of Juliette Lewis somehow. Not enjoyable, but powerful.

Spoiler alert! They really went out of their way to make it a happy ending. Otherwise it is pretty tense.

A sick murderous couple abducts, rapes and murders teenage girls. Loosely based upon actual events. Emma Booth was great as the jealous insecure murderess, but was far too beautiful for the role. Stephen Curry was suitably creepy and disturbing. Ashleigh Cummings played the unfortunate captive quite well. The plot points were heinous, demented and disturbing. Performances were generally convincing. The movie was tense, messy and scary. Not explicit, but definitely not for young-ins.

This Australian film, loosely based on real events, is fairly restrained in terms of showing explicit violence or gore, but is still a pretty grueling experience (potential viewers should particularly note that there's very brutal offscreen violence directed at a dog). That said, it's a beautifully crafted, very suspenseful thriller that makes particularly menacing use of songs by the Moody Blues and Cat Stevens (not your first thoughts when the topic of menacing music comes up)

An okay australian horror flick about a girl being abducted by a psycho couple. They spared the details, but still managed to make it believeable. An okay watch overall.

And yet another white-girl-kidnapped story. I think it's a genre of its own at this point, but setting it in a run-down Australian 80s neighbourhood helps make it stand out. Intense, violent and deeply unsettling, with the focus on the perpetrators who feel all too realistic, up until an ending that sort of drops the ball.

A horrific tale that keeps its intensity throughout the movie despite the predictable ending. Both lead actresses deliver impactful performances.

Had this penned as one of the great modern Australian films pretty much throughout. The incredibly cheesy ending (with the equally bad song choice) ruined 90 minutes of tense methodical craft. Still good but nearly a gold horrifying experience.

Intense! Doesn't seem like a horror film, but feels particularly grisly, and Cummings sure can scream like a queen. Along with Booth and Curry, this trio put on a hell of a show in mostly long, tightly-knit scenes of terror, elevated by some nifty unsettling music by Dan Luscombe from The Drones. Looses points unfortunately for a rather telegraphed climax that felt very cinematic in comparison to the grittiness of everything that preceded -- but it still felt kinda nice.

The problem with relentlessly grim films is that they need to be compelling in some other way - pacing or action or dialogue - otherwise it's just depressing. Maybe I'll revisit this and try again, for now it's just horrible

Tries to mold feminism into thriller, but fails because of its weak content and unbalanced narration. As the story develops the sisterhood theme against a maniac husband and a materialist ex-husband, suspense unnecessarily accentuates the tortures of the couple and leads to a hapyy end of tears, instead of relativizing the mothers' position and the classical 'redactio ad materum' solution of feminist movies. Despite its strong style, HoL can't walk on the line between exploitation and thriller.