![]() Rather than the basement cage in a remote house of most abduction movies, Vicki is chained in a prosaic back bedroom on a regular street, and the racket she raises often alerts nosey neighbours. ![]() An escape attempt is thwarted as it comes too early in the film to pay off, and agony is further prolonged by the sort of hard-to-watch ordeal (very tactfully shot) which became over-familiar (and thus devalued) in the Hostel heyday of torture porn.īut in other way this plays against expectations. Though expertly written and acted, the film defaults to a couple of well-worn clichés - reminiscent of Mum & Dad, Chained, Captivity and others few would want to watch more than once. ![]() It’s a shame Hounds Of Love is being released at a point where some viewers have started to baulk at more chained-up-in-the-basement movies. The result is something more than its abduction-horror plot suggests. ![]()
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