

Each of the actors give shuddering portrayals, with their wails and screams and quiet threats all adding to the pervading revulsion that Hounds Of Love wants you to feel. But while Evelyn is less of a predator than John, she's actually the viler of the two, because she tries to get Vicki comfortable and acts like her deluded surrogate mother, but is willing to do whatever it takes to please and satisfy John. Stephen Curry's strut, pauses, and the manner in which he prowls and erupts leave you on edge, while Emma Booth brings an outer-worldliness to Evelyn that means you're constantly caught in her trance.


Meanwhile, Emma Booth and Stephen Curry create a beguiling yet rotten twosome, who are able to ensnare their targets with a slow seduction and dance that their victims don't even know they're tangled up in.
