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Not every monster lives in the wild.
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
Wuchak
Feb 18, 2024 · via TMDB
**_A family in the Northeast captures Wolf Lady and Dog Girl_** A lawyer in northwest Massachusetts (Sean Bridgers) likes to hunt near his rural homestead in his spare time. After finding a feral female living in the woods (Pollyanna McIntosh), he imprisons her in his underground shed. How will the rest of the family react? Angela Bettis plays the housewife. "The Woman" (2011) is a quirky backwoods drama with amusing bits mixed with some thrills and gory horror. It’s a sequel to “The Offspring” from two years earlier, but I’ve never seen it (and it’s not necessary to do so in order to understand this one). A second sequel came out in 2019 called “Darlin’,” directed by McIntosh (the wild lass). The set-up is good and the production is professionally made, plus the flick’s witty and the statuesque Pollyanna has a certain appeal in a ferocious way. It’s a slow-burn about a dysfunctional family and a seemingly genial man being a misogynistic sadist who can’t handle a strong woman. That’s all good but, unfortunately, the climax is too over-the-top (in the manner of Tarantino) and leaves a bad taste; for me anyway. There’s a hint of humor so you can’t take the proceedings too seriously, but with themes of slavery, cannibalism, torture, domestic violence, rape, incest and murder, the flick just doesn’t know when to stop. “Cat People” dealt with some of these way back in 1982 and was significantly more effective and entertaining. The film runs 1 hour, 42 minutes, and was shot in northwest Massachusetts with the school sequences done in Montague. GRADE: C
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Pollyanna McIntosh
The Woman
Sean Bridgers
Chris Cleek
Angela Bettis
Belle Cleek
Lauren Ashley Carter
Peggy Cleek
Zach Rand
Brian
Shyla Molhusen
Darlin' Cleek
Carlee Baker
Miss Genevieve Raton
Marcia Bennett
Deana
Alexa Marcigliano
Socket
Jared Burke
Stunt Coordinator
Alexa Marcigliano
Stunts
Bryce Burke
Stunts
Lucky McKee
Director
Robert D. Krzykowski
Co-Producer
Andrew van den Houten
Producer
Pollyanna McIntosh
Foley Artist
Rian Johnson
Songs
Jack Ketchum
Novel
Lucky McKee
Novel
Jack Ketchum
Writer
Lucky McKee
Writer
Oct 14, 2011
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