Image: The Hounds of Love.
In a sense, the cinema release of Hounds of Love in its home country is the last act in a long drama. The cliffhanger turns on the audience – will we accept such a ferocious piece of sustained tension made in our suburbs, separated only by time from our real lives? Will we see it as a psychodrama of codependent torturers as a resilient young woman opens up their weaknesses to save herself?