Hounds of Love

This is a brilliantly produced film with strong and believable characters.The story is good, but there are some parts that could have been more intense, which would have made this great.

I will confess to often finding Australia to be a haunting place. I have a strange fascination with it.

Australian gem about a sexual-predator serial killer couple that is so wrought with realistic emotion and purpose that it appears to be based on a real couple though it's a fiction. And that Emma Booth is ridiculous good.

Absolutely loved it, very disturbing but not a cheap horror voyeurism like Saw with blood everywhere.Super realistic feels like you are there with the characters, a lot of tension and suspense!!

Recently seeing the fun The Furies (2019-also reviewed) I decided to check on streaming service Shudder for other Aussie Horror titles possibly on the site. Remembering Kim Newman's insightful review in UK movie magazine Empire a few years ago,I was pleased to spot this film as a Shudder exclusive, leading to me releasing the hounds.

Take this as a bit of a warning if you're easily triggered or just a very anxious person. I myself am anxious and am diagnosed to have anxiety and this movie just took the cake at making me feel nervous and all sorts of uncomfortableness in my stomach.

Confusing directing and indulgent cinematography make for a painful experience watching. Truly.

Don't usually write reviews but felt compelled to submit one after just watching this movie. I've always been interested in Australian TV & Film and not really seen a bad Australian movie.

This movie is set in Perth, Western Australia in the 1980's and is about a couple (John and Evelyn) who kidnap and abuse a teenage school girl (Vicki), though she is not their first victim.I guess like so many real life predators they appear quite normal and friendly on the surface but underneath they are hideous monsters.