Hidden in the Woods

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Audience Member i said the phrase "oh man" quite a few times -- it's disturbing and quite gross. and since i don't speak the language, the majority of the time it just seemed like people were screaming and yelling weird sounds at each other, which by the end of the film, started to give me a headache :/ Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Can't actually believe I sat through this one. Pretty d grade. It did have a compelling kind of awfulness to it, though. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member rankest movie I have seen in a while Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member To be clear, I am not reviewing the remake depicted in the picture above but the original Chilean film, which is a masterpiece of brutality. An eviscerating indictment of masculine culture and patriarchy, Hidden in the Woods Two sisters and the mentally disabled brother/son of one of them escape their abusive father and find refuge at a cabin in the woods. But their father's drug-dealing and run-ins with the police lead to more men seeking them out. A film in which no male is to be trusted because they are all liars and rapists, Hidden in the Woods equates civilization with machismo and rape--it is built not just upon the raped bodies of women but upon all the different peoples who have been displaced and abused in order to form it. A primal meditation on the forces that constrain women (and any other disenfranchised group, like the mentally disable), Hidden in the Woods will make you feel dirty before the credits roll, but it will also make you consider your complicity in this sad state of affairs. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the stranger horror films i've seen in a while Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Movie poster with Michael Biehn is from the 2014 American remake directed by Patricio Valladares. The Chilean original from 2 years previous begins with violent domestic abuse: a mother is viciously murdered and her two young daughters are left behind to be raised by her husband, the very man who killed her. Years later, he is a drug trafficker, living in the same house out in the woods and obviously abusing his daughters. The movie's violence is only outmatched by its sexual depravity, most of which is quite graphic. Not recommended for the squeamish. With respect to the Spanish language, it was a fairly difficult movie to understand for a non-native speaker like myself. While it was hardly necessary to follow the dialogue to understand the plot of the film, subtitles were definitely necessary to understand the dialogue. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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