The Woman
Director: Lucky McKee
Starring: Pollyanna McIntosh,Angela Bettis, Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Zach Rand
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 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.
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.
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).
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.
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)
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