"The Frightened Woman" is a boring title for a boring movie. It's really only worth watching for some striking, surreal imagery, like the giant molded legs with the doorway in the middle. Who can forget the moment where the doorway shuts from both sides, forming teeth?
Indeed, the filmmaker seems to be throwing around a bunch of psycho sexual ideas about men and women, and perhaps the fear men have of women and the attraction women have to powerful men.
Either way, the movie makes no real statement of interest, we get the aforementioned striking image here and there but it is hard to care less about the characters, and the conclusion at the end was so predictable it only left the question why we had to wait so long for it to arrive. But then, at an hour and twenty six minutes, the movie felt at least twice that long.
I'd seen this one before, and coming back to it, all I could remember was the main guy's hair, which is sort of red-blonde. I have seen this referred to as "sexploitation", but there's basically no sex, and very little nudity.
Indeed, the filmmaker seems to be throwing around a bunch of psycho sexual ideas about men and women, and perhaps the fear men have of women and the attraction women have to powerful men.
Either way, the movie makes no real statement of interest, we get the aforementioned striking image here and there but it is hard to care less about the characters, and the conclusion at the end was so predictable it only left the question why we had to wait so long for it to arrive. But then, at an hour and twenty six minutes, the movie felt at least twice that long.
I'd seen this one before, and coming back to it, all I could remember was the main guy's hair, which is sort of red-blonde. I have seen this referred to as "sexploitation", but there's basically no sex, and very little nudity.