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Hounds of Love

2016 · Movie · 108 min · ★ 6.1 · 81% critics

CrimeDramaHorror

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 AwardBest Actress in a Leading Role · 2017
  • AACTA AwardBest Direction · 2017 · nominated
  • AACTA AwardBest Actor in a Leading Role · 2017 · nominated
  • AACTA AwardBest Actress in a Supporting Role · 2017 · nominated
  • AACTA AwardBest Actress in a Leading Role · 2017 · nominated
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  • AACTA AwardBest Film · 2017 · nominated
  • AACTA AwardBest Original Screenplay · 2017 · nominated
  • AACTA AwardBest Editing · 2017 · nominated
  • AACTA AwardBest Cinematography · 2017 · nominated

Cast & crew

Directed by Ben Young