I discovered what they were doing was so interesting, and was working in a way that I hadn't written on the page." However, the original draft, and even the shooting script, focused far more on their latest victim, Vicki (Ashleigh Cummings), "and it was just in the development of the script, and even the final cut, that it became more about them. Young's script focuses on John and Evelyn's dysfunctional co-dependence, with their cycle of kidnapping, abusing, and murdering teenage girls well established. "If you loved it," he said, "there's something wrong with you." He said, "We've all seen 'girl gets kidnapped' stories before, but we haven't really seen 'couple who kidnaps girls' stories before."Īustralian writer/director Young's debut feature premiered at SXSW 2017 (read our review here), and shocked audiences with its claustrophobic, febrile depiction of a serial-killer partnership: manipulative John (Stephen Curry) and enabler Evelyn (Emma Booth). That hideous dynamic inspired Ben Young to film Hounds of Love.
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Yet two serial killers bonded by blood seems infinitely more frightening.
The serial killer as lone wolf is terrifying enough. Truly, madly, deeply: Stephen Curry and Emma Booth in Ben Young's new serial-killer drama Hounds of Love.