Wildling 2018

Discover your true nature

5.4 / 10   338 vote(s)
R
Horror Fantasy Thriller Drama

A young woman held in captivity discovers the realities of truth and lies in the outside world.

Release Date 2018-04-13
Runtime 1h 32m
Directors Fritz Böhm, Toby Oliver, Quenell Jones
Producers Celine Rattray, Liv Tyler, Trudie Styler, Charlotte Ubben, Oleksandra Ivchenko, Erica Winkler, Daryna Rymareva, Viktor Samoilenko, Robert Fernandez-Ferreira, Sean Wheelan, Tomas Eskilsson, Soeren Bauermeister, Stephen Mao, Marco Henry, Christopher S Burke, Timothy Christian, Hardy Justice, Kiri Kristin Trier, Michael Liebman, Sean Wheelan, Lee Stobby, Rab Butler, Marco Henry, Nic Marshall, Sven Nuri, Ken Hirsh, Steven Kemler, David Palmer
Writers Fritz Böhm, Florian Eder

Horror movie versions of puberty have been done well in the past, Wildling however misses the mark.

Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.

Gimly

Good watch, could watch again, and can recommend.

Trigger warning: This does have some aspects of kidnapping, and sexual assault.

Bel Powley is amazing, and really carries the movie. Liv Tyler does a great caring mother role, Brad Dourif is sufficiently creepy, and Collin Kelly-Sordelet is an angsty teen, but James Le Gros is more interesting than they are without saying much at all. The support characters are here more to facilitate the mechanics of the story, and its not that the story is poorly written, it is just focused.

The establishing act is brutal because we know what is happening to her, and everything past that is centered on her transformation, and presented amazingly.

This is a very visually focused movie, and while the dialogue is not poorly written by any means, there just isn't much clever to it. I honestly think this is still as great movie if you put it on mute and give it a watch.

Kamurai