Darlin'

4/25/2026

**_A feral girl finds succor at a Catholic girls’ school_** This is the third standalone film of a trilogy about wild females, all featuring statuesque Pollyanna McIntosh as The Woman. Pollyanna dives into writing & directing here and the film is proficiently made. I’ve only seen the previous one, “The Woman” from 2011, and I liked the first hour or so, but the last act left a bad taste. Like this one, there's a hint of dark humor so you can't take the proceedings too seriously, but with themes of slavery, cannibalism, torture, domestic violence, rape, incest and murder, that flick just didn't know when to stop. "Cat People" dealt with some of these way back in 1982 and was significantly more effective and entertaining. This third film is better in some ways, but worse in others.