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When she skips out to go to a party, she is picked up by a rather innocent-looking couple named John and Evelyn White ( Stephen Curry, Emma Booth) who offer her a little party starter that she can’t resist, but soon finds herself drugged and chained to a bed, the next victim in the hands of a pair of crazies who have their own set of problems, something Vickey picks up on and sees as her only way to escape. We then meet Vicky ( Ashleigh Cummings), a rebellious girl angry with her mother for leaving her father and coming down on her for her school work. We sense right away that there is a deep menace standing in the light of day and it is looking for a victim. It starts with leering, the camera in near dead slow motion ogling the supple bodies of teen girls on a playground, the point of view clearly that of a predator. There is an inherent fascination with knowing more about them, and with Hounds of Love, that story centers on a killer couple and their graphic atrocities put upon young women, and while the film is visually and narratively disturbing, it is also a troubling experience that offers little in understanding who these people are and what motivates them.

When they are not, it feels more than a little disconcerting, treading on a scared trust built between filmmaker and audience about what we as a viewer should feel.Ĭertainly, many films have used very real and disturbing cases of murder as inspiration for stories, including backstory on the killer or killers. Violence and gore in the genre are easier to enjoy, for lack of a better term, if it is directed at figures made of fantasy. Horror based on true events always risk teetering over a discretionary line, one that tests viewers ability to comfortably separate reality from the implied division of such that the medium inherently allows. Hounds of Love is a 2017 dramatic horror film about an abducted school girl who must drive a wedge between the couple who kidnapped her if she is to survive.