Our feature presentation begins with a feral female in the wild attacking a dog. She was filthy, feral, and presumably unable to speak. After that attention grabbing scene we're transported to a nice, civilized pool party with your basic middle class Americans. The eldest daughter Peggy Cleek (Lauren Ashley Carter) was sitting poolside rebuffing a boy. The father, Chris Cleek (Sean Bridges), was at the grill with the mother, Belle (Angela Bettis), close by. The son, Brian (Zach Rand), was idly watching a girl getting bullied, and the youngest daughter, Darlin' (Shyla Molhusen), was aggressively trying to kiss a boy.
Remember the woman in the wild I mentioned? Chris Cleek captured her in the wild and brought her home to his cellar to domesticate her (I suppose). Who knew that this all-American family was headed by a sadistic patriarch?
In the meantime, there is something strange happening with the teenage daughter Peg. Her math teacher, Miss Genevieve Raton (Carlee Baker), correctly guessed that Peg was pregnant. It wouldn't take us viewers long to surmise that her father was the father.
What interested me the most was the actions of The Woman (Pollyanna McIntosh). In the end when she was freed by Peg she viciously attacked the wife Belle first. She chewed up Belle's face like a chimpanzee. It was assumed that she would go straight after Chris and his perverted son, but she chose the mom first which reminded me of Elizabeth Fritzl.
Elizabeth Fritzl is an Austrian woman who was locked in her father's cellar for 24 years. In that time he repeatedly raped her and fathered seven of her children. When Elizabeth finally got out she was instrumental in making sure her father was prosecuted, but she also cut off her mom. Why? Because her mom was such a passive bystander in her long abusive marriage that she allowed her husband, Joseph Fritzl, to abuse her children, and more importantly, keep one of the children imprisoned for 24 years. For that reason alone Elizabeth wanted nothing to do with her mother.
The parallels in "The Woman" are uncanny. The Woman may not have been Chris and Belle's daughter, but Belle did nothing while her husband violated her teenage daughter and The Woman.
"The Woman" ended very gorily, yet satisfying. I didn't need to see her eat Chris's beating heart, but boy did I want to see him and his son painfully suffer. The gore was the only drawback of this otherwise fantastic find. Wow what a woman!
Remember the woman in the wild I mentioned? Chris Cleek captured her in the wild and brought her home to his cellar to domesticate her (I suppose). Who knew that this all-American family was headed by a sadistic patriarch?
In the meantime, there is something strange happening with the teenage daughter Peg. Her math teacher, Miss Genevieve Raton (Carlee Baker), correctly guessed that Peg was pregnant. It wouldn't take us viewers long to surmise that her father was the father.
What interested me the most was the actions of The Woman (Pollyanna McIntosh). In the end when she was freed by Peg she viciously attacked the wife Belle first. She chewed up Belle's face like a chimpanzee. It was assumed that she would go straight after Chris and his perverted son, but she chose the mom first which reminded me of Elizabeth Fritzl.
Elizabeth Fritzl is an Austrian woman who was locked in her father's cellar for 24 years. In that time he repeatedly raped her and fathered seven of her children. When Elizabeth finally got out she was instrumental in making sure her father was prosecuted, but she also cut off her mom. Why? Because her mom was such a passive bystander in her long abusive marriage that she allowed her husband, Joseph Fritzl, to abuse her children, and more importantly, keep one of the children imprisoned for 24 years. For that reason alone Elizabeth wanted nothing to do with her mother.
The parallels in "The Woman" are uncanny. The Woman may not have been Chris and Belle's daughter, but Belle did nothing while her husband violated her teenage daughter and The Woman.
"The Woman" ended very gorily, yet satisfying. I didn't need to see her eat Chris's beating heart, but boy did I want to see him and his son painfully suffer. The gore was the only drawback of this otherwise fantastic find. Wow what a woman!