SCULPTURE (2009 dir Pete Jacelone)

Screamkings.com Pre-Release Festival Edition Review

Pete Jacelone and Screamkings/THR Productions, makers of BEEF: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, bring us their latest creation which explores true psychotic madness spiraled out of control in SCULPTURE.

SCULPTURE stars Raine Brown as Ashley Steele, an artist with a troubled past who lives with her brother Adam (Dustin Kerns) who runs a local gym. Ashley's father (played by Marv Blauvelt of BEEF in flashbacks) dies and after the funeral, she and her brother return to their old home. Suddenly, horrific memories of Ashley's childhood begin to haunt her, most notably memories of her abusive father who would sexually molest her and an instance in particular where he kills a young man who was doing nude modeling for her mother (Susan Adriensen) for a drawing. Ashley tries to create her masterpiece sculpture for art gallery curator William (Alan Rowe Kelly). Adam gets her a job at his gym and introduces her to his bodybuilder friends who hang out with friend Emily Porter (Misty Mundae). As the awful childhood memories continue to haunt Ashley, her grip on sanity slowly loosens. Once problems begin to effect her relationship with Emily and Adam's friends, her grip suddenly disappears and she begins luring Adam's bodybuilder friends to do modeling for her artwork and starts hacking them up in outrageously gory ways and collects their best body parts to be used for her sculpture which she calls "The Perfect Man."

SCULPTURE is without doubt one of the best horror films of 2009. It's a well-acted, intense, gory, repulsive, disturbing, nauseating, and brutal film which displays the main character's downward spiral into insanity in a very realistic way made all the better by Brown's performance. One scene depicting a vicious catfight between her and Mundae is very violent and very severe in the way she does Mundae's character in. Another sick part is where one of the bodybuilders who's a virgin is castrated so his member can be used for the sculpture. We also get a bodybuilder whose ass cheeks are carved out.

Overall, SCULPTURE is a well-cast, very graphic and unrelenting piece of horror cinema with very realistic effects (by Stephen R. Hicks) and excellent performances by all the key players. Indie horror star Jeff Dylan Graham is also featured in the cast as a victim. The late Michael R. Thomas is featured in a cameo as a priest.

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