The Furies
Image: Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath.
Sometimes a film can be is so bad that it’s good but unfortunately, The Furies is just appallingly awful!
The synopsis is promising and would allure horror enthusiasts– Kayla and six other women are abducted and dumped in a forest and hunted by a group of masked men wielding axes and machetes. What transpires is a bloodfest of hideously violent and disfiguring atrocities which initially succeed in nauseating audiences.
However, the alleged ‘drama and horror’ of this 20-ton turkey only manages to evoke laughter owing to the inadvertently dopey dialogue, silly storylines, poor characterisation, pathetic special effects and an overly dramatic musical score.
Airlie Dodds who plays the heroine of the piece filters through a supporting cast whose performances are so embarrassingly amateurish that the entire movie feels like a zero-budget project produced by students who have failed miserably in their film studies.
It’s ludicrous that this Australian film which surrounds the fate of seven abducted women “living in a fucked-up world for fucked-up men” (hilarious!) is receiving a cinematic release, as the only platform it honestly deserves is on the editing room floor! (MMo)
★ ½
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