The Woman: Press reviews

'A ferociously confronting satire of American family values – with real bite.'

'The cast is remarkable.'

'A chilling attack on misogyny'

'So horrifying it caused a number of hardcore journos to storm out of its Sundance screening'

'That way bloody disaster lies. Stylish and well-acted but also pretty sick-making.'

'an unflinching, accurate and undeniably powerful portrait of an extreme kind of misogyny.'

'a gross-out horror film steering between the gobsmacking and the gut-turning'

'This bizarre and brutal horror film featuring a Josef Fritzl-style storyline adds a misjudged extra-horror factor to its final minutes'

It's a muddled, muffled, extremely unpleasant film that fails to illuminate the true story on which it is allegedly based

'McKee's attempted feminist subversion of co-scriptwriter Jack Ketchum's nasty pulp novel makes for a confused, controversial horror movie. He has never fulfilled the promise of his debut feature, ‘May', and on this evidence he seems unlikely to.'

'McKee wants to keep us guessing, and for a while Bridgers's chilling alternation of charm and sadism recalls something of Terry O'Quinn's demonic patriarch in The Stepfather. Too bad it descends into a crude attack on misogyny, though torture porn fans will not feel hard done by.'