Savage is a 2009 Irish psychological thriller film directed by Brendan Muldowney, starring Darren Healy and Nora-Jane Noone.
Plot
Cast Darren Healy as Paul Graynor Nora-Jane Noone as Michelle Gerry Shanahan as Josie Burns Brian Fortune as Homeless Man 2 Jer O'Leary as Paul's Father Karl Shiels as Eddie Diarmuid Noyes as Attacker 2 Bill Murphy as Self Defence Instructor Rachel Rath as Jenny Emmett J. Scanlan as Gym Changing Room Guy 1 Eoin Macken as Gym Changing Room Guy 2 Gerard Jordan as Bully Cathy Belton as Dr. Cusack
Reception Donald Clarke of The Irish Times called the film a "finely honed shocker enlivened by occasional moments of impressively black humour".
Gareth Jones of Dread Central gave the film a score of 4/5 and called it an "earnest, and devastating, study of the psychological effects of victimisation, brutalisation, intimidation, and sheer aggression turned inwards."
Paul Whitington of the Irish Independent rated the film 3 stars out of 5 and wrote that it "goes a long way on a very slim premise". Whitington praised the sound effects but criticised the "baroque conclusion that clumsily hammers home the film's message."
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