Director AharonKeshales, NavotPapushado

Screenwriter AharonKeshales, NavotPapushado

Producer ChilikMichaeli, AvrahamPirchi, Tami Leon

Editor AsafKorman

Director of Photography GioraBejach

Composer Frank HayimIlfman

Cast Lior Ashkenazi, Tzachi Grad, RotemKeinan, Dov Glickman, MenasheNoy, DvirBenedek

Cinematographer GioraBejach

Don't judge this film by the music in the trailer. This story isn't treated lighthearted at all. It just plays up the irony of the situation: ordinary people under extraordinary pressure still trying to keep up their cool face while they are acting like crazy.A vigilante cop and a vengeful father capture and interrogate an accused serial killer. AharonKeshales and NavotPapushado’s brutal follow-up to Rabies examines a horror that most would not want to imagine: what would you do if someone hurt the one you loved most? A revenge thriller with teeth, Big Bad Wolves delivers on its raw tension with operatic drama. The Israeli horror pioneers have stepped firmly out of the slasher genre with this deftly dark riff on unhappily ever after. An unsettling scenario of men pushed too far in the aftermath of a horrific crime against an innocent child, the film avoids cliché by delivering on its creators’ continued promise of unpredictability.

Dror (Keinan), prime suspect in a series of child murders, is stalked by Miki (Ashkenazi), a homicide cop transferred to traffic after assaulting him. Gidi (Grad), father of a missing girl, abducts Dror, making Miki his accomplice. As Gidi tortures Dror, his pleas prompt the cop to question his belief in the man’s guilt...

It opens with a fairy-tale nightmare as a child is snatched by an unseen killer while exploring an old house, then alternates edgy rogue-cop thrills (including one great suburban chase) with black comedy (bring-your-kid-to-work-day at the police station). Once it gets to the proverbial house in the woods, the focus narrows to a disturbing drama of torture — albeit with near-farcical interruptions. There’s a drugged cake, a parent who arrives with chicken soup and stays to wield a blowtorch, a passing Arab horseman, a little girl who needs picking up from ballet school and various familial guilts (all the men in the cellar are failures as fathers) to complicate things.Like all versions of this story, there are only two possible outcomes. Big Bad Wolves holds off until the final shot to settle the issue. It will repay multiple viewings since, like Rabies, it’s fiendishly intricate and depends on wild changes of tone. It has a terrifically ominous score by Haim Frank Ilfman, occasionally broken by inappropriate ringtones (is there something off about an Israeli with a Ride Of The Valkyries ringtone?), and great performances all round.

 

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