War is hell, but there is
no hell quite like makeup and F/X wizard-turned-director Paul Hyett’s The
Seasoning House, due out on DVD and Blu-ray from Well Go U.S.A. on Dec.
3.
Noted for his excellent
work on such films as The Descent, Attack the Block and the
cable series, Da Vinci's Demons, Hyett’s makes his debut film behind the
camera with The Seasoning House and it is nothing short of a stunner … a
horror tale that is difficult to watch and absorb even for the most hardcore of
genre fans.
Why? The answer is simple, because the events that
unfold in The Seasoning House could be real (probably happening right now
somewhere in the world as this is being written). There are no monsters; no zombies; no
creatures from the bowels of the earth in this one, just human beings doing
unspeakable things to other human begins.
Somewhere — out of time
and place — in war torn Bosnia is a whorehouse run by a man named Viktor (Kevin
Howarth — Summer Scars, The Last Horror Movie, Razor
Blade Smile, Etc.), a truly despicable individual whose “girls” are the
spoils of war. They are disposable
young woman, beaten, drugged and raped repeatedly by the very soldiers that
raided their towns and villages. They
are the unlucky ones … they survived the attacks, only to end up in hell.
The latest “recruit” to
this illicit pleasure palace is Angel (Rosie Day — Homefront, Harley
Street, Trust, Bernard’s Watch, etc.), malnourished
and deaf, she becomes Viktor’s “assistant,” rather than just another one of the
short-term pleasure girls (drugs and beatings do tend take a toll). Her job is to clean up the mess that the
brothel’s clientele leave behind — mend their wounds, wipe away the blood and
then administer the morphine to keep them quiet and compliant for the next
round of customers.
During the quite moments,
and this is where it gets even creepier, Angels worms her way through the crawl
spaces and openings in the walls and ceilings of the old building. She spies on the soldiers as they come and go
and makes her plans for an escape.
One day another newcomer
arrives, Vanya (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), and Angel befriends her when she
discovers that they can communicate with sign language. What makes this turn of events even more
compelling is that the friendship between Angel and Vanya makes Angel
vulnerable to what she sees around her, especially when her friend is
brutalized before her eyes … not by just anyone, but the very man who murdered
Angel’s mother, Goran (Sean Pertwee — Dog Soldiers, Mutant Chronicles).
Escape plans turn into thoughts
of revenge in the final act as Angel becomes the very thing that she sought to
escape … brutal, unfeeling and capable of unspeakable things. Hide your eyes, The Seasoning House is
not an easy one to take.
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