Synopsis
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
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Cast
- Pollyanna McIntoshThe Woman
- Sean BridgersChris Cleek
- Angela BettisBelle Cleek
- Lauren Ashley CarterPeggy Cleek
- Zach RandBrian
- Shyla MolhusenDarlin' Cleek
- Carlee BakerMiss Genevieve Raton
- Shana BarryFat Tourist Girl - Cartoon
- Marcia BennettDeana
- Chris KrzykowshiRoger
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
The Woman is not, obviously, a family movie, but it is, like much of the best drama, about a family - here, how an outsider upends its unhinged equilibrium. True to its genre, there is gore and sudden shrieks. - 75
The A.V. Club
The mix of blunt sexual politics and dime-store-paperback luridness has the bracing quality of tub-brewed rotgut. It eats away at the stomach lining - that is, if it can be stomached at all. - 75
New York Post
The Woman is disturbing, lurid and perverse, but that isn't necessarily bad: Horror buffs, especially fans of Ketchum, will be overcome with joy and excitement. - 67
IndieWire
There are plenty of guts, but The Woman doesn't have enough to make its feminist rhetoric stick. - 63
Miami Herald
The movie - which caused walkouts and an uproar at Sundance - rewards your endurance with an utterly insane 30-minute climax of violence, audacious gore and all-around bad behavior (how this picture got an R rating is baffling). - 60
Empire
So horrifying it caused a number of hardcore journos to storm out of its Sundance screening, btu if you've got thick, thick skin, you might find something here. - 60
Arizona Republic
The Woman isn't simply a gore-fest. It's just mostly a gore-fest, with a little more going on, as well. - 40
Village Voice
Even with a nauseous climax, The Woman never gets under the skin, and its artsy-languid pacing and incessant lite-metal commentary tunes finally seem like part of an effort to disguise what it really is: torture porn for people who'd never admit to liking torture porn.
