No taming this one (The Woman, 2011)
The Woman, 2011, directed by Lucky McKee, streamed on Prime Video, 3.5 stars. A deranged dad captures a feral woman in the woods, shackles her in the cellar and orders his family to help train her into civility. The plan goes awry, a couple of other disturbing family projects are revealed and mayhem ensues. This indie horror film is particularly twisted, and I enjoyed just about every minute of it. It had me a bit discombobulated at first because I didn't understand what this wild woman was all about. The film opens with The Woman lurking in a river with a machete near a cave opening where we hear wolves howling. We later see her catching a fish with her machete and eating it raw as deranged dad drops a net over her from behind. But that's all we know about this woman covered in dried blood and mud who only utters guttural sounds. I was fine just going with it. As we moved into the story of the psychopathic dad and his oppressed family, the captive's backstory really didn...