Movie: Season in Hell: Evil Farmhouse Torture
Year: 2004
Studio: World Wide Multi Media/ Wicked Lamb Pictures
Written, Directed, and Edited by Elliot Passantino
Stars: George Prekel, Carl Restivo, Kevin Healy, Elloit Passantino
Language: English
Running Time: 75 minutes
The Eastern part of the United States has fallen under terrorist attack. The attack left the US in an apocalyptic state. George and Carl have decided to take flight. While the friends are traveling, they decide to stop for supplies at a creepy farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. Marbus Hiram, who is willing to help the traveling friends, inhabits the creepy farmhouse. The farmhouse basement is full of women who worship him, and think that he is the Messiah. The farmhouse is a gateway to Hell, and is full of torture and mayhem.
I was curious about this film, when I first got the opportunity to review it. Let me tell you…this film is 75 minutes of mind-boggling torture, and I don’t mean that in a good way. The opening sequence of this film completely took me out of the entire film. It was chocked full of poor camera movements, and jumped all over the place. As the film progressed, it didn’t get much better.
With subpar acting, and off-the-wall camera effects that reminded me of a late 80’s or early 90’s music video, I felt like I needed to be on acid to catch the point of this film. The film had the potential to be violent and gritty, but just didn’t deliver. There was a few scenes the had some decent gore, but those kill scenes were never really shown…just glimpses of the killing, which again is something that took me out of the film. I wanted to see the kills, and the fear on the victim’s faces…didn’t deliver.
The sound effects and score were ever so prevalent throughout the film…to say the least. There were scenes that appeared to be a constant music video with no purpose but to serve as filler. I just didn’t get the feeling of dread or suspense or fear.
I will give the director credit for one thing…he made a film…just not a good film. To me this film had no sense of direction and jumped from place to place. The cinematography seems to be non-existent. The overall psychedelic nature of the film didn’t appeal to me. Do yourself a favor, and stay away from “Season in Hell”.
This movie is a total avoid, 1 out of 10. AVOID, AVOID, AVOID!!!
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