What develops is a game of cat and mouse as Vicki attempts to gain her freedom by coming between John and Evelyn’s toxic relationship. Set in 1980s Australian suburbia, sociopathic power duo John (Stephen Curry) and his doting wife Evelyn (the glorious Emma Booth) coax teen rebel Vicki (Ashleigh Cummings) back to their murderous lair with the promise of drugs. Meet actor-cum-director Ben Young who makes a stab with his first feature-length masterpiece Hounds of Love. It is a genre that has been exploited and left slightly charred by made-for-money slash hits aimed at YA viewers (think Prom Night or the more recent flop Unfriended), but every so often something great comes out of the woodwork. From Psycho to Silence of the Lambs, the mind-set and psychological make up of serial killers has forever been an area of intrigue for Hollywood and its audience: sex may sell, but, equally, so does murder.
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