Author-type Jack Russo (writer/director Joe Hollow) has got it tough all over… he’s got writer’s block like a mother fucker, and his marriage to his wife, Sienna (legendary Scream Queen Debbie Rochon), has seen better days.
So, to try and get their life and Jack’s work back on point, the couple schlep out to a remote cabin which goes South rather quickly once Jack checks out a mysterious videotape he receives in the mail.
Said VHS is some real Videodrome (the show within the movie) type shit… all sexual violence and murder biz, which repulses our hero before becoming an object of fascination that leads to Jack entering a demonic fugue state.
Sienna falls sway to the dark influence as well, and soon their paths cross with a woman named Vivienne (August Kyss), who just so happens to have had major family problems that leads to a Faustian deal with an entity known as the Death Dealer that may spell doom for them all!
Flesh of the Unforgiven is a slow burn descent into emotional devastation for it’s protagonists, but man this fright flick doesn’t shy away from the more psychotronic-side of things!
This results in both complex characters with layers of depth who plunge into a fever-dream universe that offers a deviously delightful paradigm shift that manages to be revoltingly repulsive (that’s a compliment ‘round these putrid parts as you lascivious lot well know) and balls deep in psychological drama with neither element getting the short shrift.
Add some strong cinematography and editing to that solid narrative and you’ve got a picture well worth giving a wicked whirl that leaves the viewer excited for what Hollow will conjure forth for us slavering horror-hounds next!
