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Load of rubbish!!

hyped garbage

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Anyone who slept through the war in the Balkans and the war crime trials which followed may find this movie "laugh out loud dumb" as one critic on Rotten Tomatoes put it. The believability of the action can be questioned but the veracity of the events is undeniable. I am troubled by this film being categorized a thriller or a horror though. Anyone who got a 'thrill' out of it, or enjoyed its gore would probably have found themselves sitting comfortably with the real life psychopaths portrayed in the film. It is not even a revenge movie. It is about how far our instinct to survive will allow us to tolerate outrages, and at what point the line is crossed such that we decide to take action against it, even facing the certainty of death not just for ourselves but for all those around us. As world politics spin wildly out of control, this is a question we may have to face ourselves under similar circumstances sooner than latter. Perhaps its low rating on Rotten Tomatoes is due to its being marketed incorrectly, or because people will deny the possibility of what is staring them straight in the face in real life. For the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of women and girls who are brothel slaves in the world this very second, I'll suspend my disbelief for one movie to believe that one of them could take such action.

This movie was complete garbage. Who are the people that are rating this super high and what the hell is wrong with you?! The subject of the movie is already extensively dark and dreadful. But, when you add that with distasteful continuous violence and perversion the movie has to do much more to convince me that it's actually telling a STORY. This movie doesn't tell a story anyone ever needed to see. What exactly was the POINT of this movie? Men are animals? It's just a stupid movie I'm sorry. It's highly unlikely the main character, Angel, would have the role she had in this movie in real life. I couldn't wait for it to be over. Honestly let me recommend another movie if you really do enjoy violent or twisted movies, but that at least is a movie WORTH the watch. Martys was very, very good... Just make sure you see the 2008 & not 2015. You're welcome. Skip this crap.

It's hard to think of a film with a more unpalatable premise: in the war-torn Balkans, a group of women are kidnapped are forced to work in a brothel by the notorious warlord Goran. Thus for the first hour the viewer is forced to endure endless rape and misogyny directed at the screaming female cast members, and it's all very unedifying and sleazy. I hate watching this sort of stuff and was tempted to fast forward on more than one occasion.Eventually, the storyline twists into a revenge style set up, and it starts getting gory. Very gory. The explicit special effects turn out to be rather excellent in terms of their realism, and there's some undeniable satisfaction that comes from seeing the bad guys getting their comeuppance. However, the filmmaking is competent rather than good, and aside from the reliable Sean Pertwee as the villain of the piece, none of the performances really stand out. And there's way too much misogyny for it to be the kind of film you'd want to sit through again.

A girl crawls through a vent, walks among a bunch of sinister men, is told to prepare the girls, grabs a box with needles and drugs, and drugs some girl laying on a filth bed. Next we go back to the day she herself arrived at the place. She and a bunch of girls are taken to the house. They meet the boss, Viktor, who tells them he'll take care of them if they take care of him and that trust is key. He grabs some girls and cuts her throat to make his point. We go back and forth between the present and the girl's past. She's deaf and during the Balkan war her family was killed by some military unit. Now she's enslaved in the filthy whorehouse but she's the one whom Viktor trusts. She feeds the girls, drugs them and puts make-up on them when the customers arrive, most of whom are violent. When a girl is beaten to death she cleans the body. And in her spare time she wanders through the vents and crawlspace.A new set of girls arrive. On of them knows sign language and befriends Angel, the deaf girl. One day a customer breaks the pelvis of Angel's friend but that doesn't keep Viktor and some doctor from forcing her to continue to work. When some militia arrive, Angel witnesses how her friend is killed during sex. She tries to intervene and in a struggle ends up killing the huge customer. That infuriates the militia commander. He's someone we've met before, he was in charge of the raid that killed Angel's family--what a coincidence. Now everyone is after her but she escapes through the crawlspace with one guy chasing after he. Eventually she escapes the house. Viktor, the commander, and his brother pursue her. Somehow she'll have to survive.The Seasoning House is one of those movies that wears you down by the sheer and relentless ugliness and hopelessness of it all. The story is obviously unpleasant, everything is dirty, ugly, and nasty visually, well, except for Angel. Making her deaf and unable to speak is an unusual choice. But it's almost the next logical step in movie-making that enjoys keeping dialogue to a minimum. Another surprise is that this movie could have turned into revenge horror but it never does, in spite of some calling it a revenge thriller. The movie is occasionally very gory. But like most movies these days it portrays men in the worst possible light. There's not a single decent guy in this movie. Things do occasionally slow down quite a bit and clearly there's not a whole lot of story or script but the lovely Rosie Day makes it all bearable.