NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

saleemmakhoul The Seasoning House is one of the most original movies I've watched in a long time.In these times it's really rare to see a horror/thriller movie with a solid acting, strong directing and good characters development. Not to forget the moving story that actually makes you care about the characters. And The Seasoning House succeed in doing that.When I watched this movie I didn't have much in mind to look forward, but fortunately, The Seasoning House exceeded my expectations.I have to warn you, this movie is harsh, intense and really dark. With some sad and shocking scenes. It's not for everyone to watch.Definitely worth a watch!

TdSmth5 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.

Paul Magne Haakonsen "The Seasoning House" was really not what I had expected it to be from the movie cover. But I must say that I wasn't sorely disappointed that the movie turned out to be something other than what I had thought it to be.This movie is brutal, not just visually, but also emotionally. Especially because the movie is shot the way that it is, and it is nicely edited. There is just something very realistic, albeit horrible nonetheless, to this movie, and that is really what makes "The Seasoning House" work out so well.The story is about a group of young girls brought to a remote house, against their will, where they are forced into servitude and have to perform sexual acts for customers that frequent the house. The mute girl Angel (played by Rosie Day) works the house as a helper, also against her will, when fate brings those who killed her family to the house, and things spiral out of control, as fate deals Angel an unforeseen card.Now, "The Seasoning House" is a very brutal movie, as I mentioned before. Visually because of the scenes portrayed and the horrors that take place in the house where the girls are kept as slaves, drugged and abused. And emotionally because of the events that unfold in the story, and also because the characters are characters you can relate to and very quickly build up some kind of empathy or antipathy for very quickly.Director Paul Hyett managed to put together something really unique here, and this is definitely a movie that you need to watch. And once watched, it is most likely a movie that will stick with you for a long time afterwards.The cast were doing great jobs, although the English language with a pseudo-Eastern European accent wasn't really doing the trick. But it was a minor inconvenience, because the rest of the movie overshadowed this flaw."The Seasoning House" is well worth watching, despite it being rather grotesque in its story and imagery. But it just goes to prove that movies doesn't all have to be glamor and happy days...

Peter Pluymers "The seasoning House" is another movie that'll make you feel uncomfortably. It's definitely not for sensitive souls who are shocked easily. This movie isn't a Horror movie. The sadistic and brutal overtones marches forth throughout the movie and are brutally stopped by a devastating revenge caused by the urge to survive. There's no explicit gore that hits you like a sledgehammer, but it's the evocative atmosphere that makes you feel disgusted. It's a dilapidated hovel with timbered windows and an interior that's not looked after for years. No one comes to admire the furniture but comes there to satisfy his animal appetites and to take it out on those innocent girls.It's situated during the Balkan war in the 90s where the army brutally conquered villages and slaughtered everyone except the younger girls. These poor girls were transported to this remote hovel as prostitutes and were abused at will for a lot of money by sadistic men. Some girls don't survive this brutal treatment and are simply wrapped in a blanket and dumped somewhere. To think that these practices actually occurred in these parts makes it worse and shocking realistic.The girl Angel, who is a deaf mute, actually gets a preferential treatment (sounds pretty stupid, I know) and is responsible for drugging the girls and the care and cleaning after more scum has come along. There is no escape and submissively she performs these tasks. Until she actually gets an emotional bond with a new girl who is horribly abused afterwards. The moment a unit of soldiers arrives, who are also responsible for the death of Angels family, and a huge dude abuses that girl severely, Angel jumps in to help her in a rather bloody way and flees away between the floor and walls.The first 40 minutes are quite slowly and have a claustrophobic tone, where you can see Angel browsing through the corridors and carrying out the tasks in a trance, while dodging away from grabbing perverts. Personally I thought the gore part wasn't that hard. The more the oppressive discomfort was present. I was sometimes painful to watch, and not in a physical way. The whole movie feels like a crazy ride on a roller coaster: First excruciatingly slow, then breathtaking and surprisingly fast, to end up in a slower pace.The only criticism I could cite is that it is rather implausible that a simple girl, armed only with a kind of scalpel and a syringe with heroin , could outwit and defeat heavily armed soldiers. Most of it was also pure luck they were eliminated. The final scene will make you feel relieved and will give you a good feeling. Especially the face-to-face confrontation with Goran is a highlight. Just how could Angel crawl back in that narrow tube ? Conclusion: a tough and confrontational movie that wil jolt you a conscience with a sledgehammer. A piece of advice: don't watch this on your first date. It might give a false impression ! More reviews at http://opinion-as-a-moviefreak.blogspot.be/