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Pet (2016)
The film follows a man who works in an animal shelter. One day, he is obsessed by Holly who is a young girl. Because she rejects him, he holds her captive underneath the animal shelter. What will happen?
16 June 1988, Adelaide, Australia
8 December 1976, Berlin, Germany
26 June 1992, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 May 1971, New York City, New York, USA
10 May 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA
October 31, 2016
[A] suspenseful mystery thriller which initially seems a straight lift from Fowles' book but develops in other, surprising directions.
December 01, 2016
The constant power flipping allows for some interesting explorations of both the misogyny and misandry demonstrated by the main characters, and the way they justify their actions through the philosophical lens of love and sacrifice.
December 06, 2016
The film is engrossing, thanks to the director's skill at delivering sustained tension, and the excellent performances.
December 02, 2016
... doesn't get under the skin as intended, in part because of the obvious way the scheme unravels.
December 01, 2016
The films zigs where you expect a depraved zag, resulting in a smart and unsettling tale ...
December 01, 2016
The screenplay quickly loses this moral clarity as the plot twists pile up and the power balances shift.
March 20, 2017
Psychosis come in many forms here, and as these two characters negotiate with each other where one's ideal ends and the other's begins, Torrens treats the viewer to a twisted sadomasochistic love story.
December 01, 2016
If you can't respect your audience enough to connect obvious plot items, they surely won't respect you back.
December 01, 2016
[Its] strengths ... are undermined by a story that gives Seth an out and seems to suggest that we should forgive him. Not likely.
December 01, 2016
[An] ambitious psychological thriller that's unlikely to attract mainstream audiences but should play well with horror buffs.
December 13, 2016
It becomes a more enjoyable movie around the midway point, but it also becomes a lesser one.
December 02, 2016
Pet sputters and pants its way to a kind of twist, one that's genuinely misogynist on the one hand but also too cretinous to be authentically repellent.
