Djävulsk gisslan

Cul-de-Sac

Bitvis är det obehagligt och sadistiskt, bitvis bisarrt och roligt. Pleasence är briljant underhållande.

It’s a cruel movie, like Polanski’s Polish debut feature Knife In The Water, with an unhealthy marriage at its centre and a supporting cast of effete snobs and violent thugs.

...Polanski ignores the horror to concentrate instead on macabre humor.

CUL-DE-SAC is exaggerated, sinister, bleak, and spine-tingling.

The dynamic between the threesome plays out like a proto-Straw Dogs, with Pleasance occupying the Dustin Hoffman role of a feckless intellectual with a bored sexpot wife who must defend his home from a more masculine threat.