I tried to get the rights to the song, but it would have ended up being 20 percent of the budget of the film. It also had the kind of mood that I want to create in the film as it’s talking about love. I found everything I could find from that era and I heard that song and her strong female voice really moved me. Why is it named after the Kate Bush song?
So it’s a cheap way to give the film an aesthetic. (Brutality and lust combined with "Knights in White Satin" is hugely effective.) Also the film was really, really low budget and so much of Western Australia was built in the '80s and it looks exactly the same as it did then. Also if you’re writing a thriller, it’s really difficult to set one nowadays because you have mobile phones and all those kinds of things, so it made the writing a lot easier by putting it in the '80s, plus it gave me the opportunity to use some music that I like and grew up listening to. I grew up in the city in which it’s set and that was the time when Western Australia lost its innocence in so many ways. Stephen Curry bravely plays Booth’s partner John, a total creep of a man, while 17-year-old Ashleigh Cummings as their next intended victim puts up one hell of a fight, more with brains than brawn.
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Like so many of the films in Venice this year, the women take centre stage, leaving those '80s suburban blokes in their tank tops for dead.Īn almost unrecognisable Emma Booth is remarkable as Evelyn, half of a serial killer couple, as is the ever-reliable Susie Porter as her mum. It’s the product of Young’s vivid imagination and his ability to draw on real life cases. Immediately Hounds of Love announced itself as a real crime drama placing itself in Dec ‘87 in Perth. With the hyper-violent, taut thriller Hounds of Love, Perth-born filmmaker Ben Young has marked himself on the world stage as a force to be reckoned with, after his film premiered in Venice last night.