When Chris Cleek (Sean Bridges) is out on a hunting trip and stumbles across a feral woman living in the woods his immediate thought isn’t to help her or to inform the authorities, the first thing he does is spy on her. He watches her from afar with a deeply uncomfortable, for an audience, sexualized gaze. His immediate sexualization of The Woman (Pollyanna McIntosh) is heavily signposted to the audience in one particular shot in which her clothes momentarily disappear as she walks in slow motion to the slow percussive song playing on the soundtrack.

This sort of technical approach, and it is one that is occasionally repeated throughout, is certainly a striking cinematic choice but also one that risks severe dissonance, throwing the audience out of the film, but the way in which director Lucky McKee employs it is skilful enough to just about make it work. That...