Hello dear listeners, I wanted to issue a public service announcement: this episode gets into some darker territory than most episodes do and goes beyond horror into explorations of sexual trauma. As such, I wanted to issue this trigger warning.
Ben Young is an Australian writer-director whose feature debut, Hounds of Love, completely blew me away. Hounds is an extremely gut-wrenching depiction of a criminal couple who engage in serial rape and murder. I'm usually not the biggest fan of this kind of horror BUT, this movie is not nihilistic, in fact, just the opposite - despite the brutality of its subject matter, the movie itself is executed in a way that's extremely compassionate, not to mention suspenseful - the ending had me losing my mind. It's a masterful exercise in gut-wrenching human drama, true horrors of humanity, and is loaded with very compelling performances. But again, I'm going to offer a strong trigger warning up front; Hounds of Love is a very brutal movie; it deals with rape and murder, both of which we discuss in this episode. Listener discretion is advised.
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