Well Kiddies another Frightmare has gone by. I have to tell you that that is the best Horror Convention in the world. I get to see and meet a lot of the stars that I grew up watching and getting a new perspective on some flicks that I have seen time and again. For those of you that missed the shows please check out my DVD that will be on sale soon.
One flick that I got to check out was The Woman.
I have been following this flick for multiple reasons. First off I know the director and I like to see that someone I know is successful I know better than most how hard it is to be successful in this business and anyone that makes it like this has my full support.
Another reason that I have been following this flick is the controversy that it received at this year’s Sundance Festival. What happened was that the flick was so intense that people were walking out of the theater and one woman was in such a hurry that she tripped and fell knocking herself out. Then the real fun started when after the screening a man started yelling at McKee as he was getting ready for a post screen QnA. The man was then escorted out of the theater spouting his opinion all along with a camera following him that became a viral sensation online.
The Thursday night before the Frightmare I attended a screening with McKee and the cast and crew in attendance.
The Screening starts off with a short by McKee starring himself, Angela Bettis, and Carlee Baker titled Blue Like You, That is the tale of a sheltered woman having dinner with McKee while he teaches her how to sit Drink and Eat.
Followed by a cartoon about a boy and his donkey that was probably more disturbing than the main feature.
The cartoons and the short felt like the old days when you got a cartoon a news Reel and a short film before the film.
Now on to the feature.
The Woman is the tale of a southern backwoods lawyer that is the dominant member of his household and one day when he is out hunting he encounters the sole survivor of the offspring (which the Woman is a sequel to) and he decides to civilize her. After drugging her with a dart he brings her home and subjects her to various types of abuse and torment including pressure hosing her down, shooting a gun next to her ear and eventually raping her. Eventually his son joins in of the actions of his father in a more sadistic way and the whole family unravels while the daughter’s teacher becomes suspicious of the events taking place leading us to a bloody finale and some twists that you will see coming but still shock you.
One of the Gripes that this man ha in Sundance is that the film was degrading to women. I found that the flick was the opposite and made me wonder who was more Savage, The Woman or the men of the flick.
Now for those of you that go to this flick thinking how bad can it be then I recommend The Girl Next Door which is also based on the novel by Jack Ketchum… As a matter of fact I recommend anything by Jack Ketchum as his stuff is pretty intense and not for the weak of heart. Well this flick is based on his writing if that is any indication of what this movie has as far as content.
That being said this flick isn't for everyone. Some of the scenes are pretty intense and you want to run up onto the screen and knock out some of the characters but that is what Lucky did with this flick was to tap into that flight of fight part of our brains that see these things and don’t know how to process.
The most frightening part of the flick is that these things not only can really happen but that they most likely have happened before and will again.
4 Dead Bodies
2 Breasts
3 Beasts
Hosing
Finger eating
Finger licking
Something with pliers that I don’t know what it was
Human animals
Bashings
Stabbings
4 Stars
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