
Hounds of Love
2016 · Movie · 108 min · ★ 6.1 · 81% critics
A teenage girl is abducted off a quiet suburban street by a troubled couple and held captive in their home. As fear and control tighten around her, she studies the pair’s volatile relationship and tries to turn their tensions against each other in a desperate bid to stay alive.
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Details
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2016-10-07
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Critic score
- 81/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 (372 votes)
About
If you want a tense, realistic kidnapping thriller with a grim, intimate feel and heavy psychological pressure, this delivers; Not for you if you avoid bleak, confronting stories with implied abuse and cruelty, like Berlin Syndrome.
Pros: relentless tension; strong performances; unsettling realism | Cons: bleak subject matter; slow for some; upsetting animal violence
Themes
- rape
- kidnapping
- murder
- serial killer
- teenage girl
- psychological thriller
- sexual torture
- killing a dog
- perth, australia
- abduction
Awards & recognition
- AACTA Award — Best Actress in a Leading Role · 2017
- AACTA Award — Best Direction · 2017 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Actor in a Leading Role · 2017 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Actress in a Supporting Role · 2017 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Actress in a Leading Role · 2017 · nominated
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- AACTA Award — Best Film · 2017 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Original Screenplay · 2017 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Editing · 2017 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Cinematography · 2017 · nominated
Cast & crew

Ashleigh Cummings
as Vicki Maloney

Emma Booth
as Evelyn White

Stephen Curry
as John White

Susie Porter
as Maggie Maloney

Damian de Montemas
as Trevor Maloney

Harrison Gilbertson
as Jason Farris

Fletcher Humphrys
as Gary

Steve Turner
as Troy

Michael Muntz
as Sergeant Mathews

Marko Jovanović
as Sergeant Henderson
Directed by Ben Young