4 ahead of the release of the fourth season’s final two episodes on Friday, July 1. While it may disservice Bush to credit her recent gains in popularity to the nostalgia bait of “Stranger Things,” the Hounds of Love lead single remains on the Global 200 chart at No.
1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart during the week of June 18.
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Follow me on Twitter, check out my movie blog and listen to my podcast, Talking Pictures.Thanks to an ugly Dungeons & Dragons villain with bulging veins called Vecna, a red-headed tomboy named Max and a particularly dusty underworld, Kate Bush’s 1985 hit song “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” rose to No. Which means it’s done its job – and done it extremely well.įlickering Myth Rating – Film: ★ ★ ★ ★ / Movie: ★ ★ ★ ★įreda Cooper. Whichever category you prefer, it’s carefully plotted and structured and watching it is as comfortable as hearing fingernails scraping a blackboard.
But it’s more of a psychological thriller than a horror, even if some what happens is, by implication, horrific. First time feature writer/director Ben Young filmed it in around 20 days, and he has clearly has an eye for a striking mage and a flair for atmosphere. Hounds Of Love is creepy, seedy and grubby and it evokes its atmosphere superbly well. Worst of all are the moments when all that comes from behind that closed door is silence. As does the view down the corridor to the room where she’s being held, even if the camera consistently views her from a distance. Very little of it is actually shown – just as well, as it’s clearly appalling – but the screams from behind the closed door or that boarded up window, tell everything. The film shamelessly and deliberately plays on the audience’s imagination, so that much of Vicki’s ordeal is by inference. Except for one, boarded up window tucked away at the side. And, from the outside, Evelyn and John’s house is just the same as anybody else’s. It could be anywhere, a place where people clean their cars and children play on the front lawn. The suburb where it all takes place – Vicki is being held just a few streets from her mother’s house – is as ordinary as it gets.
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Whoever the driver is, they’re there for a reason.Īs the story develops, and Vicki’s kidnap ordeal becomes increasingly violent and frightening, what’s striking about the film is how it exemplifies the banality of evil. The camera pans slowly, as if inside a kerb crawling car, then closes in on certain areas of the girls’ bodies, their breasts and legs in particular.
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For the film the setting is Perth in 1987 and that feeling of skin crawling unease is right there from the opening moments, with its slow mo images of teenage girls playing netball. One of the most shocking aspects of those cases was the active involvement of a woman. In a British context, there’s shades of the Moors Murderers and Fred and Rose West, both couples who tortured, then murdered their victims. Inspired by true events, the storyline sounds horribly familiar. Admittedly, there are times when it’s an unpleasant one, but not in the sense that you’re repelled from watching it: what’s happening is nasty and that’s down to the perpetrators. It’s been described as a horror, and there are parts which are deeply uncomfortable to watch, but for me it’s more of a psychological thriller. And, despite more limited distribution, Australian Hounds Of Love looks set to tread the same path. They’re also films which have earned unexpected success, both critically and commercially, and that’s nothing to do with the horror tag. Which may account for why the horror label has been hung on a number films this year, ones that hitherto may have fallen into the thriller category. A thriller, on the other hand, is all about excitement, making it sound tame by comparison. The dictionary describes it as something that produces an intense feeling of fear, shock or disgust. Back at their house, she’s kidnapped and, chained to a bed, undergoes a horrific ordeal.ĭefine “horror”. Vicki Maloney (Ashleigh Cummings) has yet another row with her mother, defies her about going to a party and, walking along the street in search of a cab, she accepts a lift from a couple, Evelyn (Emma Booth) and John (Stephen Curry). In a quiet suburb of Perth in Australia, a teenage girl has gone missing and posters are pinned to every tree. Starring Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, Stephen Curry and Susie Porter.
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