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The Seasoning House

  • 20122012
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  • 1h 30m
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6.1/10
11K
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The Seasoning House (2012)
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Sold at a brothel deep in the woods to work as a caretaker, a hapless deaf girl must summon the courage to fight for her life.Sold at a brothel deep in the woods to work as a caretaker, a hapless deaf girl must summon the courage to fight for her life.Sold at a brothel deep in the woods to work as a caretaker, a hapless deaf girl must summon the courage to fight for her life.
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6.1/10
11K
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    • Paul Hyett
  • Writers
    • Paul Hyett
    • Conal Palmer
    • Adrian Rigelsford
  • Stars
    • Rosie Day
    • Sean Pertwee
    • Kevin Howarth
    • Paul Hyett
  • Writers
    • Paul Hyett
    • Conal Palmer
    • Adrian Rigelsford
  • Stars
    • Rosie Day
    • Sean Pertwee
    • Kevin Howarth
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    • 69User reviews
    • 72Critic reviews
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    Rosie Day and Ryan Oliva in The Seasoning House (2012)
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    Kevin Howarth, Paul Hyett, Sean Pertwee, Jemma Powell, Michael Riley, Anna Walton, Rosie Day, Dominique Provost-Chalkley, and Ryan Oliva in The Seasoning House (2012)
    Rosie Day in The Seasoning House (2012)
    Sean Pertwee in The Seasoning House (2012)
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    Rosie Day
    Rosie Day
    • Angel
    Sean Pertwee
    Sean Pertwee
    • Goran
    Kevin Howarth
    Kevin Howarth
    • Viktor
    Anna Walton
    Anna Walton
    • Violeta
    Jemma Powell
    Jemma Powell
    • Alexa
    David Lemberg
    David Lemberg
    • Dimitri
    Amanda Wass
    • Arijana
    Sean Cronin
    Sean Cronin
    • Branimar
    Tomi May
    Tomi May
    • Aleksander
    Emma Britton
    • Samira
    Katy Allen
    • Tatjana
    Thomas Worthington
    • Vinko
    Gina Abolins
    • Jasmina
    Dominique Provost-Chalkley
    Dominique Provost-Chalkley
    • Vanya
    Fabiano De Souza Ramos
    • Dragan
    Christopher Rithin
    Christopher Rithin
    • Danijel
    Rachel Waring
    • Emilia
    Laurence Saunders
    Laurence Saunders
    • Stevan
      • Paul Hyett
    • Writers
      • Paul Hyett
      • Conal Palmer
      • Adrian Rigelsford
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    • Trivia
      Director of Dog Soldiers and The Descent, Neil Marshall, makes an uncredited cameo near the end of the film as a boiler room thug.
    • Goofs
      The movie takes place in 1996 yet the wad of money contains the redesigned 5 dollar bill which didn't come out to 2008.
    • Quotes

      Viktor: [to Angel] One day... one day things will be different. We can go away from this place. This is why I do all of this. So we can be together.

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    8/10
    A darkly tense revenge thriller, laced with a palpable sense of menace.
    In the directorial debut of special effects guru Paul Hyatt, young actress Rosie Day plays Angel, a deaf and mute girl who sees her family brutally murdered before she is dragged to the eponymous Seasoning House, where kidnapped girls are forced to into prostitution for soldiers of a bleak and senseless Balkan war. The first half of the film has a very dream-like quality to it, as Angel, who is enslaved to care for the prostituted girls, performs her daily routine of doping the victims, and then cleaning them up after they have suffered the soldiers often disturbingly brutal attentions. Hyatt has said he was heavily influenced by Pan's Labyrinth, and it certainly shows in this half as Angel silently wanders the seasoning house and we glimpse the world as she senses, or more accurately, doesn't sense it. But when ruthless soldier Goran, played by Sean Pertwee, and his men arrive on the scene, the same soldiers responsible for murdering Angel's family, she takes drastic action and the film swerves from darkly depressing, to a taut, tense and brutal game of cat and mouse. Rosie Day does well in the lead role, her character, subdued and distant in the beginning, shows signs of life as she recalls memories of her family, slowly bonds with one of the prostitutes who fortuitously knows sign language, and eventually comes to her aid as she suffers horrifically at the hands of one of Goran's men, the monstrous Ivan, while Goran himself is a fittingly cruel and tenacious main villain. The savage scenes of rape in the first half are offset by the brutal acts of revenge and survival in the second, each accompanied, as you would expect, by some great visual effects, but while the film is engaging throughout and comes to a satisfying conclusion, it felt slightly disjointed and meandered in places. However, that doesn't ever detract from the overall tone of the film, darkly foreboding and laced with a palpable sense of menace, it's a tense and disturbing ride.
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    • Yaaatoob
    • Aug 23, 2012

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      • June 21, 2013 (United Kingdom)
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      • Sterling Pictures Ltd.
      • Templeheart Films
      • Filmgate Films
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    • 1 hour 30 minutes
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