Death House, A Modern Horror Orgy

In baseball, Mays, Ruth, and Musial are royalty. In hockey...Gretzky, Lemieux, and Orr. In football, Bradshaw, Montana and Brady. In modern horror I can think of Kane Hodder, Barbara Crampton, and Lloyd Kaufman...and dozens more who make up the Hall of Fame of modern horror...or to be more exact...the cast of 2017's "Death House" (a B. Harrison Smith film). Who do you pray to? Do you know God? When your life dwells in turmoil and pain, what or who do you reach for? You think you may know the answer...but maybe not.

Two great looking FBI agents, Boon (Courtney Palm) and Novak (Cody Longo) are sent to a weird prison established by...well...you'll see. Inside the joint, scientists led by Dr. Fletcher (Dee Wallace) and Dr. Redmane (Crampton) are charged with erasing the evil thoughts of the most evil beings and making them good. Yeah...that'll work. Boon and Novak have been granted 'honors requests' to visit the prison and exact some revenge of the evil peeps who caused them pain. The duo is given a tour and we meet some sordid cannibals, necrophiliacs, chainsaw killers, and much more. Oh yes, the bottom level...the five evils dwell. The tour is horrific, not only as we see the evil sorts, but we are also let in on the methods of 'Death House,' and these may be even more horrific than the crimes represented here.

At first Boon and Novak meet the devils as they are bound and confined. Boon gets to meet Sieg (Kane Hodder) who...well...you'll see, but Boon seeks revenge for what he did to her. The dynamic switches when an EMP knocks out all the power to this hell and now the prisoners are all loose. Our FBI duo and the doctors and staff are now hunted for food, torture and rape. Do the prisoners desire escape? That's not an easy question to answer. Boon and Novak also seek salvation from the monsters and their path to it isn't what you would expect. No spoilers here but suffice it to say you will meet a plethora of horror greatness including Camille Keaton ("I Spit on Your Grave"), Michael Berryman ("The Hills Have Eyes"), Gunnar Hansen ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre") and dozens of other A-list modern horror stars.

"Death House" can be seen as a vehicle for a gratuitous shower shower scene, gratuitous cannibalism, and gratuitous necrophilia. We'd all be satisfied with that no doubt, but you will also be treated to some thought provoking questions regarding good and evil and their relationship...then our relationships to goodness or evil. Will Barbara Crampton endure a fate more horrific than the one which felled her in "Re-Animator"? Will the FBI agents prevail over what lurks in the bottom level of this prison?  Did I mention Tiffany Shepis and Debbie Rochon? Any fan of horror since 1980 must see "Death House." Look at it as a warm shower of blood on a cold winter's day...with a screamqueen by your side...okay, that's enough...I'm getting weird.