Fleeing House Of Horrors: Film Analysis

The movie is about Slim getting abused from her husband Mitch. After she confronts him about his affairs he got angry and he physical abused her. He becomes verbally abusive even in front of their daughter Gracie. Once she had enough she decides to escape. While she was executing her plan, Mitch caught her and again became violent. Mitch grabs his gun and points it towards Slim and her friend. The friend wakes up Gracie to use as a witness with Gracie watching Mitch doesn’t use his gun. Therefore, Mitch allowed Slim to leave. She stays in a cheap hotel and Mitch freezes her credit cards. Mitch has a friend disguised as the FBI to look for her at her old boyfriend’s house where she was hiding. Slim leaves town and changes her name. Mitch tracks her down and attacks her. Slim again leaves to hide from him and sends her daughter with a friend to anther state. In the meantime Slim prepares herself by taking self-defense classes to fight back. She kills him and it was ruled out her actions were self-defense.
Majority had children and more frequently children witnessed the violence, although they were not the direct targets of it. Children react in very different ways to the violence in their lives. Some can prevail against all odds while others carry the burden of physical or emotional scars right into their adulthood. The movie shows Gracie witnessing her dad abusing her mother several times. Slim is only able to leave Mitch for good only if Mitch is dead, which is accomplished in an act of self-defense. This also relates to the book when the women did not show any remorse for their dead abusive