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The Woman (review)
Usually horror movies feed on our preconceptions, amplifying them in order to terrify us: Satantic children are scary. Young women who have sex deserve to be slaughtered by axe-wielding maniacs. Parasitic aliens that birth themselves by busting out of your chest are a whole lotta no fun. Bad things come from the uncivilized realms. Like here, in The Woman, in which a fine upstanding country lawyer (Sean Bridgers: Sweet Home Alabama) captures a feral woman (Pollyanna McIntosh: Land of the Lost)-- Wait, what? A feral woman? Right there we’ve got our horror, no? Feral as in no language, no couth, no, you know, dentistry? That can’t be good. But very quickly filmmaker Lucky McKee, working from the novel by Jack Ketchum [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon Canada] [Amazon U.K.], shows us he’s not going to let us off so easily. Our lawyer, Chris, is a brute in sheep’s clothing, a picture of propriety...
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  • 10/31/2011
  • by MaryAnn Johanson
  • www.flickfilosopher.com

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