Horror

The Seasoning House

- Innocence isn't lost... it's taken.

The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.

Release Date : 2012-08-21

Language :FrenchEnglish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Templeheart FilmsSterling PicturesFilmgate Films

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Angel

Original Name : Rosie Day

Gender : Female

Character Name : Goran

Original Name : Sean Pertwee

Gender : Male

Character Name : Viktor

Original Name : Kevin Howarth

Gender : Male

Character Name : Violeta

Original Name : Anna Walton

Gender : Female

Character Name : Alexa

Original Name : Jemma Powell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Josif

Original Name : Alec Utgoff

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dimitri

Original Name : David Lemberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Vanya

Original Name : Dominique Provost-Chalkley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Arijana

Original Name : Amanda Wass

Gender : Female

Character Name : Branimar

Original Name : Sean Cronin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Aleksander

Original Name : Tomi May

Gender : Male

Character Name : Samira

Original Name : Emma Britton

Gender : Female

Character Name : Nina

Original Name : Emily Tucker

Gender : Female

Character Name : Tatjana

Original Name : Katy Allen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Vinko

Original Name : Thomas Worthington

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jasmina

Original Name : Gina Abolins

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dragan

Original Name : Fabiano De Souza Ramos

Gender : Male

Character Name : Danijel

Original Name : Christopher Rithin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Emilia

Original Name : Rachel Waring

Gender : Female

Character Name : Stevan

Original Name : Laurence Saunders

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ratko

Original Name : Tommie Grabiec

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Andre

Original Name : Philip Anthony

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ivan

Original Name : Ryan Oliva

Gender : Male

Character Name : Radovan

Original Name : Daniel Vivian

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marko

Original Name : James Bartlett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Branko

Original Name : Adrian Bouchet

Gender : Male

Character Name : Boiler Room Thug

Original Name : Eddie Oswald

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marisa

Original Name : Abigail Hamilton

Gender : Female

Character Name : Villager (uncredited)

Original Name : Steven Borrie

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

The Pigs Have It. The Seasoning House of the title is a Balkans Brothel, it’s 1996 and young girls are being kidnapped during military attacks and sold to the owner of the Seasoning House. One such girl is Angel, a death and mute sufferer who the house owner takes a shine to and uses her as his assistant. When Angel strikes up a friendship with one of the girls, it is the catalyst for violence unbound. A thoroughly bleak and distressing viewing experience, but in turn it’s also bold and brilliant film making. Debut director Paul Hyett paints a grim portrait of an all too real problem in certain parts of the world, but thankfully he never once lets the material slip into exploitation territory. The brothel is unsurprisingly an utterly desperate place, rife with squalor and abject misery. The windows are boarded up with crooked pieces of wood, the beds are filthy, the walls stained with years of dirty grime and the after effects of vile human actions. The girls are battered and bruised, chained to the beds and injected with drugs to make them compliant towards anything the human monsters so wish to do to them. For practically 70 minutes we the viewers are holed up in this awful place along with the girls. Daylight is only briefly glimpsed through the window shards, we can smell the fear along with the dankness, and claustrophobia is rife. Angel (a brilliant Rosie Day) is our conduit as Hyett builds relationships between her and the two other main characters. Viktor (Kevin Howarth) the ruler of this vile kingdom, and inmate Vanya (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), the latter of which is deeply touching and superbly crafted by those involved. Film then switches in tone after some truly awful scenes have paved the way for what transpires in the final third of the story. This switch to more conventional horror cinema has proven divisive, but the way Angel moves about the house, how she finds fortitude, is fascinating, and she has well and truly earned our utmost support as she seeks to erase some dastardly evil wrongs from history (headed by a suitably scary Sean Pertwee). This is not a cheap rape revenger movie, it’s a survivalist horror, and some of the horrors inherent in The Seasoning House are tough to stomach, but necessary to balance the art and the reality. Stunning. 9/10