The Woman

2011

Director: Lucky McKee

Starring: Pollyanna McIntosh,Angela Bettis, Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Zach Rand

Reviews

  • The Woman is not, obviously, a family movie, but it is, like much of the best drama, about a family - here, how an outsider upends its unhinged equilibrium. True to its genre, there is gore and sudden shrieks.

    - The New York Times

    11 May 2013

  • The mix of blunt sexual politics and dime-store-paperback luridness has the bracing quality of tub-brewed rotgut. It eats away at the stomach lining - that is, if it can be stomached at all.

    Scott Tobias - The A.V. Club

    11 May 2013

  • The Woman is disturbing, lurid and perverse, but that isn't necessarily bad: Horror buffs, especially fans of Ketchum, will be overcome with joy and excitement.

    V.A. Musetto - New York Post

    11 May 2013

  • The movie - which caused walkouts and an uproar at Sundance - rewards your endurance with an utterly insane 30-minute climax of violence, audacious gore and all-around bad behavior (how this picture got an R rating is baffling).

    Rene Rodriguez - Miami Herald

    11 May 2013

  • So horrifying it caused a number of hardcore journos to storm out of its Sundance screening, btu if you've got thick, thick skin, you might find something here.

    - Empire

    11 May 2013

Awards

  • Best Actress

    Fangoria Chainsaw Awards (2012)

  • Jack Ketchum

    Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival (2011)

  • Audience Prize

    Strasbourg International Film Festival (2011)

  • Best Editing

    Toronto After Dark Film Festival (2011)