Rent The Woman (2011)

3.0 of 5 from 106 ratings
1h 38min
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Synopsis:
The Woman (Pollyanna Mcintosh) is the last surviving member of a violent clan that has roamed the American wilderness for decades. Now she is alone, severely wounded...and vulnerable. When successful country lawyer Chris Cleek (Sean Bridgers) stumbles upon her whilst hunting, he decides to capture and "civilise" her - a decision that will soon threaten the lives of Cleek, his family and The Woman herself...
Actors:
, Brandon Gerald Fuller, , Chris Krzykowski, , , , Shyla Molhusen, Gordon Vincent, , Shelby Mailloux, Tyler Merlini, Jordan Carrasquillo, Jordan Chapalonis, , Amanda Daryczyn, Lindsey Hamlett, Lauren Schroeder, Lauren Petre, Michael McKee
Directors:
Producers:
Robert Tonino, Andrew van den Houten
Writers:
Jack Ketchum, Lucky McKee
Aka:
The W
Studio:
Revolver
Genres:
Drama, Horror, Thrillers
BBFC:
Release Date:
17/10/2011
Run Time:
98 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 2.0
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • The making of 'The woman'
  • Deleted scenes
  • Short film – 'Mi burro'
  • Meet the makers
  • Music track 'Distracted' by Sean Spillane
BBFC:
Release Date:
17/10/2011
Run Time:
98 minutes
Languages:
English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • The making of 'The woman'
  • Deleted scenes
  • Short film – 'Mi burro'
  • Meet the makers
  • Music track 'Distracted' by Sean Spillane
  • The Film4 frightfest total film panel
BBFC:
Release Date:
26/08/2024
Run Time:
103 minutes
Languages:
English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 0 (All)
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
(0) All
Bonus:
  • Audio commentary with director Lucky McKee, editor Zach Passero, sound designer Andrew Smetek and composer Sean Spillane
  • Audio commentary with star Pollyanna McIntosh
  • Audio commentary with critic Scott Weinberg
  • Archive commentary with director Lucky McKee
  • Dad on the Wall, a 75-minute fly-on-the-wall behind-the-scenes documentary filmed by the director's father Mike McKee
  • Being Peggy Cleek, an interview with star Lauren Ashley Carter
  • Malam Domesticam, an archive making-of featurette
  • Meet the Makers, a short featurette on the making of the film
  • Deleted Scenes
  • ¡Mi Burro!, a short film by editor Zach Passero
  • "Distracted" music video by Sean Spillane
  • Frightfest Total Film Panel Discussion, a 2011 onstage chat about the future of American indie horror at the popular horror film festival, featuring Lucky McKee, Andrew van den Houten, Larry Fessenden, Adam Green, Joe Lynch and Ti West
  • Theatrical Trailers
  • Image Galleries

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Reviews (3) of The Woman

Shocking!! - The Woman review by CP Customer

Spoiler Alert
30/01/2012

The story of the Cleek family...not your normal family. Moulded by Chris the head of the household who has questionable morals. Chris captures a woman he finds in the wilderness who is apparently a last surviving member of clan (who is of a very savage nature a bit far beyond the plausible) and decides to try and civilise her. This brings danger and even stranger behaviour to this family. From here on the movie unravels.

The points the movie tries to make are over top in your face from strangely placed music scores with obvious lyrical meanings to shockingly graphic and disturbing scenes.

If you easily disturbed this film may not be for you.

I've given this 3 stars but it's more like a 2.5. Could have been a lot better if it wasn't for the over the top and brash style

1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.

SPOILERS follow ... - The Woman review by NP

Spoiler Alert
30/03/2017

Sean Bridgers plays Chris Cleek as the antithesis of smug. Head of a family of acquiescent children and a particularly spiritless wife Belle (the always excellent Angela Bettis), he happens upon a wild woman (Pollyanna McIntosh, who would be so good in 2014’s ‘White Settlers’), half-naked, hunting fish in the wilderness. With typical arrogance, he announces he is going to capture her, keep her chained up in the shed and ‘civilise’ her. Happily, one of the first things she does is bite off his finger, for which he punishes her.

Cleek clearly considers his prisoner something he has the right to exercise control over, to demand obedience, on which to stamp his authority. He introduces the family to his conquest, whom he describes as a ‘project’, and decides it is their shared responsibility to ‘help’ her. ‘We can’t have people running around the woods thinking they are animals; it isn’t right,’ he states with authority, and by this time my detestation of this monstrously presumptuous, ‘civilised’ man is huge. Belle questions the wisdom of what he is doing, and he gives her a slap, which she receives with no emotion.

Watching this film is an intense experience. I wouldn’t imagine Director Lucky McKee is making a point as mundane as the untamed woman is more civilised than her ‘acceptable’ captors: as events move on and her humiliation worsens, we see echoes of daddy Chris’s dysfunctional behaviour in his children: his family is a fragile unit. The eldest son Bryan (Zach Rand) sneaks out of the house one night to spy Daddy having sex with the bound woman, and this, he feels, gives him the right to sneak in later and torture her. When eldest daughter Peggy Cleek (Lauren Ashley Carter) is visited at home by her concerned teacher, her unconscious mother is being lifted out of the kitchen after Chris’s latest physical assault. The Woman is incidental to the family’s apparent psychosis, just an additional release for it.

Warnings notwithstanding, I won’t spoiler any more of this. Suffice it to say that events in general, and Daddy’s behaviour in particular, rapidly hit several new layers of depravity to such an extent that merely labelling Chris Cleek as obscene becomes inconsequential, the film itself reaches stages of repellence that straddles brilliance and absurdity. Although the ending brings with it a conclusion of sorts, there are several questions pleasingly unanswered, and a post end-credits sequence that can most conservatively be labelled ‘bizarre’.

Recommended, but finish your dinner first.

1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.

This movie should be BANNED by the BBFC. - The Woman review by themadpanner

Spoiler Alert
05/09/2024

With all the violence in our midst with very young people committing murder one wonders where they get their ideas from, well it’s movies like this. Arrow should be ashamed to release this on 4k and the censors should also. I am very broad minded but films like this and others like “SAW X” should for home entertainment be digitally edited to protect people, if it was sex they come down with a ton of bricks. I worked for 50 years in the British film industry and had rejection slips from the BBFC for the most mundane things but CGI is not classed ‘as real’ anymore.  A very sad state we are in.

0 out of 0 members found this review helpful.

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