Hounds of Love disappoints as well as disgusts by leaning too far into 'torture porn', all the while leaving far too little to the imagination.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2018

Genre fans should steel themselves for ickiness and heated post-screening debate.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2017

A terse, queasily effective thriller ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2017

Expertly made, and a must for horror film aficionados, Hounds of Love is a chance for everyone else to enjoy an utterly punishing night at the cinema, with acute stomach tension and mild stress-induced nausea.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2017

Psychologically impressive and fiendishly involving.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2017

Bleak, tight and unusual. A strong start for Ben Young.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2017

Writer-director Ben Young, announcing himself as a name to watch, has done his homework by researching a slew of cases and considering the psychology of his story very astutely.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2017

Not for the faint hearted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2017

Writer-director Ben Young has made a very striking but self-conscious debut feature -- one in which the shooting style shifts from low key naturalism to extreme stylisation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2017

Deliberately uncomfortable viewing, this is nevertheless a compelling exercise in gritty psycho-noir with outstanding performances and real dramatic weight. Director Ben Young is a name to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2017

With its harrowing peekaboo mayhem-Johnson turns the Whites' house into a cunningly compartmentalized stage set-and its ruthless psychological manipulation, Hounds of Love is a relentless exercise in terror.

| Jul 11, 2017

If you can stomach its content, Hounds of Love is an undoubtedly effective work, an impressive calling card for a director sure to attract the eye of Hollywood.

| Jun 9, 2017

The brave actors are all superb. Curry, in particular, is a revelation: his sick, scrawny sadist is the most chilling screen killer since Hannibal Lecter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 2, 2017

Once this thing starts bouncing around your brain, good luck getting it out.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 2017

The snail's-pace horizontal pans, under-the-flight-path score, and other arthouse affectations had collided with the overall unlikeability of the major characters violently enough to make me consider jumping ship.

| Original Score: 0/5 | May 18, 2017

It's a rough film, but an insightful one that offers a glimpse into the abyss not soon forgotten.

| May 12, 2017

What is it about Australian filmmakers and down-and-dirty, no-holds-barred crime dramas? Let's not figure out why they're so good at them and simply enjoy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2017

Hounds of Love is a sinister, psychologically screwy thriller that stands on its own merits, radiating a dreamy, deviant vision of female subjugation, and empowerment.

| May 12, 2017

An ugly film whose ambitions are never matched by its creators' limited abilities.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 12, 2017

This movie grabs you by the throat and squeezes.

| Original Score: B+ | May 12, 2017