Australian gem about a sexual-predator serial killer couple that is so wrought with realistic emotion and purpose that it appears to be based on a real couple though it's a fiction. And that Emma Booth is ridiculous good. Her emotions play across her face for all the world to see, just as I would guess her character to be like. And for the most part the emotion playing across her face is anger, an anger that is just short of red-hot exploding anger. It's only for her man that she has love all over her. And that's her tough luck. He's the one who wants to kidnap girls and rape them. He's the one who wants to bind them, keep them for days, torture them and then kill them. They both get all hot and bothered by the dominating and overwhelming of their captives but he's the one who murders.

Another grim and depressing slice of true crime from Australia, very similar to the bleak SNOWTOWN in look and tone. I didn't like this one at all, feeling it too much of a standard 'torture porn' movie; plus, there's very little story here, just a girl chained in a house with a psycho and his wife. Inevitably the focus is on creepy 'male gaze' nudity and the degradation and humiliation of women with a bit of animal abuse on the side. Utterly nihilistic in terms of character and tone, it just serves as a reminder of man's inhumanity and misogyny and it's one I could have done without.

It's Perth 1987. Schoolgirl Vicki Maloney's home is breaking up. She sneaks out to a party. She gets lost and gets a ride from a seemingly nice couple, John and Evelyn White. It turns out that they're not so nice.

This movie starts creepy right from the beginning with the slow motion leering of young women's bodies. It's notable that the girls' faces aren't shown as if their identities don't matter. They are just objects to be used by the couple. This is such a disturbing film. The screaming is awful. This is basically an artistic exploitation flick. I reluctantly agree that this is well-made with great performances. The story is pretty simple. Apparently, there was a real life couple doing this. It's disturbing.