A Rundown of the 13 (plus) Best Horror Movies I’ve Seen in the Past Year[5 of 13]
THE WOMAN
(January 2011)
“God only knows where she’s been living,
Peg. In the woods. In caves. We’re gonna help her…”
Premiering at
Sundance 2011 on the same day as fellow ¡Qué Horror! 2012 title, Red State, and causing
quite the controversial stir, Lucky McKee’s The
Woman is ostensibly a sequel to Andrew van den Houten’s Offspring (both films adapted from the
works of Jack Ketchum).
Now, honestly, I
wasn’t overly fond of Offspring, so I
really only gravitated to The Woman
on the strength of McKee’s name, and after having seen it, I have this to say
for starters: if someone were to have told me three years ago that Offspring would beget a sequel, I wouldn’t
have pictured it to be the feral and ferocious cinematic experience that is
McKee’s The Woman.
Truth be told,
you really don’t need to have seen Offspring
to appreciate what McKee and company have done with The Woman. All you really have to know is, a wild woman (Pollyanna
McIntosh, reprising her role as “The Woman”) is living in the woods.
It isn’t long
after The Woman starts though, that
she’s no longer running loose in the woods. Then, of course, the fit hits the
shan, and off we go.
McKee (working together
with his May star, Angela Bettis, for
the fifth time, if my count is right)
shows us just how primal and vicious the female of the species can be,
particularly when cornered by the more idiotic and presumptuous members of the
opposite sex.
This is strong
and potent stuff, not for the easily offended.
You have been
warned…
“We’re gonna train her, Brian. Civilize
her. Free her from herself, from her baser instincts.”
(The Woman OS courtesy of bloody-disgusting.com; UK quad courtesy of impawards.com.)
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