The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Lucky McKee does it again with an awesome adaptation of Jack Ketchum's novel. This one has a lawyer hunting in the woods when he finds a woman who appears to live in the forest in a primitive manner. She just grunts and looks feral. This doesn't stop the man from trapping her, then taking her to his basement. She is chained up and kept for his amusement (mostly sexually). He has a wife. two daughters and a son who are all shown the wild woman. They all think its cool to have a new pet except for mom and the oldest daughter. Things get much worse.Jack Ketchum loves to write about women being held captive if you remember the film The Girl Next Door (2007) in which a young girl is kept in the basement. That movie kicked ass as well. You get right into this film immediately and it never lets up. Just when you think you seen it all the lawyer keeps one upping his depravities. A simple plot proves really entertaining. If you haven't seen this one, or The Girl Next Door, make sure you do.

I had this movie on my watch list for a long time and I thought that if it had a 6 star raring for so long maybe the trailer is bad but the movie will surprise me. well, it was worst the the trailer !! the actress (maybe just beside the father and the woman) was awful. the script is so stupid in so many ways - really, she lives next to them for so many years and never noticed them?Im sorry to tell that I didn't like a thing about this movie! it was so bad in my opinion that its the first time I write a review and I felt like I had to do so in order to save others from spending 90 min from their life, like I did.bottom line - do NOT watch this one !

Well, I like horror movies and ofc Iam acquainted with Revenge-Slasher-Whatever-U-Call-Them-Movies. This movie delivers some disturbing stuff and gory scenes too but somehow I never could take this movie "serious". Watching the end-scenes - the wild woman killing the bad guys of the sick family I was just laughing my best piece off, somehow the whole stuff took for me the path of comedy. Another thing I find very misplaced is the soundtrack. All those folk/rock-stuff should sound cool or whatever but simply took out everything serious on some of the scenes, especially the torture-scenes - that kind of music didn't work for me at all and it added to me a lot to this "feel of being funny". So whats left to say - the actors did well, the story meh, but with a nice twist at the end, the whole movie imo trying to be sth special and disturbing but imo this movie is more of a comedy/parody of the genre, compared with a movie like the Frontier(s) (which I rated 6) I give this one a 4 with a tendency to 5. Lots of other movies of the genre are more gory, more disturbing, more whatever. An okay one time watch - but only if u like the genre.

Either i'm missing something here or the reviews here are more than a little odd. This films dreadful. I wanted to slap the daughter around myself half way through the acting was so one dimensional. That's something for me when i cant usually spot bad acting. The pacing of the films muddled and is so full of plot holes you'd be mistaken you were watching a bad 70's soap opera. Its bad, very bad and if you don't believe me watch it. You to, will be scratching your head at anything over 5 for a review. The characters are very flawed and don't seem to really know who they are. Ironically, except the teacher who's done over before shes had a chance to and the feral one. At one stage i'm wondering why after the protagonist loses it why on earth someone wouldn't call the Police, not just once, but several times. Its comically bad. The end? Haha, i save reviews for films that have left me angry that someones had the audacity to release. Watch it.