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

Robert Tonino

Albert Podell

Arrien Schiltkamp

Loren Semmens

Russell Dinstein

Robert D. Krzykowski

Lluis Fe Perez

Josh Garrell

Elaine Marie Gibson

Chris Heinrich

Allison Jackson

Kyle Porter

Branden James Maxham

Mark Price

Andreana Davies

Daniel Hourihan

Rian Johnson

Jack Ketchum

Alex Vendler

Zach Passero

Sean Spillane

Cindi Rush

Krista Gall

Sandra Alexandre

Michael Bevins

Jeff Subik

Friday Savathphoune

Chelsea Boothe

Afton Grant

Andrew Smetek

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