Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Alice C Wow, this was the biggest piece of trash. And the reviews on here are hysterical. "Oh this a brilliant piece of feminism vs the patriarchy." Spare me, this is just a really laughably horribly bad film about absolutely nothing. Guy kidnaps a woman running free raised by dogs (not a cartoon FYI) and keeps her in a barn where he forces his family to take care of her while he predictably rapes her, impregnates his daughter, beats his wife and raises a reprobate son. All this in a slow pace with horrific loud lousy music and amateur production. I was laughing at the end of this. Cave woman gets to go back to the woods with the now found and released dog lady and they take the little girl. Anyone trying to justify this or seeing anything more to this trash probably likes a modern painting that looks like a three year old scribbled for an hour. Pretentious fools also buy those for insane amounts of money and wax poetic about the meaning but in the end it is just trash no one is willing to call out as trash.

rdoyle29 An attorney finds a feral woman living alone in the woods and he captures her and sticks her in his cellar. He reveals her presence to his family and enlists them all in his project to "civilize" her. Not that this household is civilized. The father rules the family through violence and intimidation, and he is passing this lesson on to his son. The efforts to train the feral woman become increasingly violent and turn to sexual assault. Everything ends in a spectacularly gory comeuppance and the establishing of a new family unit. This film is far from subtle, but it's a pretty nifty allegory on power, violence and the male dominance of the family.

Nigel P Sean Bridgers plays Chris Cleek as the antithesis of smug. Head of a family of acquiescent children and a particularly spiritless wife Belle (the always excellent Angela Bettis), he happens upon a wild woman (Pollyanna McIntosh, who would be so good in 2014's 'White Settlers'), half-naked, hunting fish in the wilderness. With typical arrogance, he announces he is going to capture her, keep her chained up in the shed and 'civilise' her. Happily, one of the first things she does is bite off his finger, for which he punishes her.Cleek clearly considers his prisoner something he has the right to exercise control over, to demand obedience, on which to stamp his authority. He introduces the family to his conquest, whom he describes as a 'project', and decides it is their shared responsibility to 'help' her. 'We can't have people running around the woods thinking they are animals; it isn't right,' he states with authority, and by this time my detestation of this monstrously presumptuous, 'civilised' man is huge. Belle questions the wisdom of what he is doing, and he gives her a slap, which she receives with no emotion.Watching this film is an intense experience. I wouldn't imagine Director Lucky McKee is making a point as mundane as the untamed woman is more civilised than her 'acceptable' captors: as events move on and her humiliation worsens, we see echoes of daddy Chris's dysfunctional behaviour in his children: his family is a fragile unit. The eldest son Bryan (Zach Rand) sneaks out of the house one night to spy Daddy having sex with the bound woman, and this, he feels, gives him the right to sneak in later and torture her. When eldest daughter Peggy Cleek (Lauren Ashley Carter) is visited at home by her concerned teacher, her unconscious mother is being lifted out of the kitchen after Chris's latest physical assault. The Woman is incidental to the family's apparent psychosis, just an additional release for it.Warnings notwithstanding, I won't spoiler any more of this. Suffice it to say that events in general, and Daddy's behaviour in particular, rapidly hit several new layers of depravity to such an extent that merely labelling Chris Cleek as obscene becomes inconsequential, the film itself reaches stages of repellence that straddles brilliance and absurdity. Although the ending brings with it a conclusion of sorts, there are several questions pleasingly unanswered, and a post end-credits sequence that can most conservatively be labelled 'bizarre'.Recommended, but finish your dinner first.

Lary9 When a deliciously mad Australian country lawyer, with all the appearance of being "normal", captures and attempts to "civilize" a feral member of a violent clan that has roamed the northeast coast for years, much latent, longstanding family dysfunction erupts. Incredulously outrageous mayhem soon ensues. Only Australia could have produced this dark, multi-layered film with so much targeted irony. The title carries a well-deserved 6.1/10.0 on I.M.Db...but the brief synopsis fails to fully describe its twisted content. I found it thoroughly diverting & sometimes grizzly through its 100 minutes. Warning! It's tough at times for those with weaker constitutions.