Married serial killers capture, kill teenage girls in this sharp Australian thriller that embraces, transcends cliches

Read the Empire Movie review of Hounds Of Love. Deliberately uncomfortable viewing, this is nevertheless a compelling exercise in gritty...

Air-conditioned nightmares: two very different films that touch upon the terror of suburbia

Australian writer-director Ben Young's first feature is an unflinching immersion into the nightmare of a teenage girl, abducted and tortured by a serial-kill...

Sharks strike again, a box office smash comedy, Australian serial killers, and a tense war drama

Young makes a strong first impression in his debut as writer/director.

The stillness of suburban life is deafening in Perth, Australia, circa 1987 — even more so as teenaged Vicki (Ashleigh Cummings) finds herself duped, drugg...

A gory, unexpectedly profound Aussie serial killer horror from actor-turned-director Ben Young.

This feature debut of the Australian filmmaker Ben Young resembles a real-life couple’s killing spree in the 1980s.

A cruel, unrelenting nightmare vision of suburbia that, often to its detriment, leaves too little to the imagination, Hounds of Love is bound to horrify.

A report on three films from the first weekend of Tribeca.

An ugly film whose ambitions are never matched by its creators' limited abilities

A kidnap victim (Ashleigh Cummings), kept under lock and key in a spare bedroom by an experienced pair of married abductors (Emma Booth and Stephen Curry) sl...

Dir/scr. Ben Young. Australia, 2016, 108 mins.

The Australian kidnapping drama is not for the faint of heart.

Premiering in the Venice Days section ahead of its 2017 Australian release, director Ben Young’s feature debut is the kind of film you wish you could un-se...

It’s a David Lynch world, and we just live in it: for quite some time now, the idea that the conformist keep-to-yourself conservatism of the suburbs can ...

★★★★☆Expertly made, and a must for horror film aficionados, Hounds of Love is a chance for everyone else to enjoy an utterly punishing night at the...

Australian director Ben Young’s memorable first film is part shocking kidnap drama, part study of an abusive marriage in crisis.

Australian director Ben Young's debut offers a bold new spin on the serial-killer genre.

Hounds Of Love is as good a serial horror scenario that you'll find in any true-crime catalog.