A lot of genre-film fans currently feel that horror is dying in our current era of remakes, and whenever someone asks me to prove them wrong regarding this, I always tell them to watch The Woman. This is a polarizing movie, and if you don't get it I doubt you will enjoy it. I was at a screening of the film where the director, Lucky McKee, was present, and things almost got violent when a group of men and women near the back started yelling at him, saying that him and his movie were a misogynistic piece of shit. I was shocked that this film could be read as anything but feminist, but I suppose some people don't understand irony.…

This is the type of film you could either find yourself squirming around in your seat because you start to feel uncomfortable, you start feeling sorry for most of the characters and mainly just want the film the end or the type of film that attracts your attention to find out more, and see what could possibly happen. It really could go both ways, which I like about it. To me, I wanted to see how this shit was going down. Luckily on my second viewing, I was more involved with the film.

'The Woman' starts off with this...woman(Pollyanna McIntosh) ...okay I didn't intend for that to happen but I have no other choice, she is cleaning off a wound…

One of the presumed highlights and most anticipated flicks during the latest edition of the Brussels' International Festival of Fantastic Films was "The Woman"; the newest effort by fan boy director Lucky McKee and his second collaboration with prodigy author Jack Ketchum, following the terrific but somehow incomprehensibly underrated "Red". Not having read the Ketchum's novel, I didn't fully know what to expect, but based on his previous work adapted into horror movies, I presumed it would be another twisted and disturbing psyche of the human mind, with seemingly civilized human beings denaturing into cruel and unfathomable individuals. Although basically speaking this description is quite apt, "The Woman" has yet a lot more to offer. McKee and Ketchum pretty much…

One of the most immediately striking horror films in years, Lucky McKee’s The Woman benefits from a blatantly subversive attack on modern gender dynamics. A suburban family lead by an alpha male father/husband whose control of the family feels like a systematic dictatorship is shaken by his recent decision to take in a feral woman he found while hunting, chaining her in a shed and attempting to civilize her in the similar behavior adjustment methods he uses on his family. His character is all sorts of smarmy evil, most reflected in his all-business discourse and especially his treatment of the women around him, whether its condescending flirts to his secretary or the way he treats his wife and two daughters.…

One of the presumed highlights and most anticipated flicks during the latest edition of the Brussels' International Festival of Fantastic Films was "The Woman"; the newest effort by fan boy director Lucky McKee and his second collaboration with prodigy author Jack Ketchum, following the terrific but somehow incomprehensibly underrated "Red". Not having read the Ketchum's novel, I didn't fully know what to expect, but based on his previous work adapted into horror movies, I presumed it would be another twisted and disturbing psyche of the human mind, with seemingly civilized human beings denaturing into cruel and unfathomable individuals. Although basically speaking this description is quite apt, "The Woman" has yet a lot more to offer. McKee and Ketchum pretty much…