A military unit - under the sadistic orders of a ruthless commander - abduct young girls from their homes to thrust into sex slavery in a rundown old house out in the woods. One of the girls is a deaf-mute who is put in charge of cleaning, feeding and applying crude makeup on the other girls as well as shooting them up with dope before 'guests' arrive. When the commander shows up with a few of his soldiers for a 'good time', one of the girls - already with a broken pelvis from an earlier vicious rape - is brutalized by one of the men which incites retaliation from the deaf girl who is capable of crawling through the walls to gain the upper hand.
All the performances are great and the depictions of violence and rape are very nasty and realistic. The only 'flaw' I picked up on was that it started kind of feeling a bit rushed in the final act with a little too much going on, such as the whole scene of the house full of pig decor belonging to the wife of one of the soldiers. Seemed a little far-fetched and out-of-place, I thought. That said, "The Seasoning House" comes highly recommended to those who dig more unpleasant-type films. Definitely a much harsher flick than I was expecting with some effectively grim moments and some great dark and depressing atmosphere.
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