Dead River Collection

Pollyanna McIntosh

Sean Bridgers

Angela Bettis

Lauren Ashley Carter

Zach Rand

Shyla Molhusen

Carlee Baker

Shana Barry

Marcia Bennett

Chris Krzykowshi

Alexa Marcigliano

Toomy Nelson

Frank Olsen

Lauren Petre

Lauren Schroeder

Lucky McKee

Andrew van den Houten

Albert Podell

Robert Tonino

Lluis Fe Perez

Josh Garrell

Loren Semmens

Russell Dinstein

Elaine Marie Gibson

Arrien Schiltkamp

Chris Heinrich

Robert D. Krzykowski

Kyle Porter

Branden James Maxham

Allison Jackson

Andreana Davies

Mark Price

Daniel Hourihan

Rian Johnson

Jack Ketchum

Sean Spillane

Andrew Smetek

Afton Grant

Sandra Alexandre

Jeff Subik

Zach Passero

Alex Vendler

Michael Bevins

Chelsea Boothe

Cindi Rush

Friday Savathphoune

Krista Gall

Abby Nelson

Jared Burke

Bryce Burke

Drama

Horror

The Woman

Modernciné

United States of America

**_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

English

Official Restoration Trailer

Trailer

Australian Trailer