Movie Review: Industrial Animals (2016)

Industrial Animals is a slow-burn horror film by Trash Arts Productions in which two filmmakers hire a prostitute (Tamsin Howland) to interview and learn her lifestyle for three days and nights, and she agrees to be theirs for the duration and will do whatever they want. Things start off simple enough with some normal interview questions and some sex, and they slowly escalate from there until a breaking point is reached. They wanted the full experience, and they definitely got it. Once the humiliations and more intense sessions start happening, it becomes more than they asked for, and not in a good way.

The film is very guerrilla-esque and feels very much like a real documentary at times. It was co-written by the two main stars of the film (Sam Mason-Bell, and Tamsin Howland) and was also directed by Sam Mason-Bell. It also stars Thomas Davenport who played the cameraman in this film, and Davenport also does cinematography for the film itself.

Despite being fairly low-budget, the film as a whole is good. The cinematography is great for having to shoot this partly from an outside perspective instead of purely found-footage style and made the scenes feel natural while mixing these types of shots together. Oleg Hammal and Jon Youell did a great job on the score for this as well. The music and sound effects compliment what is happening on-screen, and there weren’t any scenes where the sound seemed out of place, given the environment. The entire crew seemed to have put a lot of effort in to pull this together, and it was a great watch.

Industrial Animals is definitely something different. It isn’t your typical documentary-style horror film, and it was nice to see something a bit out of the box. We would absolutely recommend giving this a watch if you are into indie horror. You can find this film on Troma’s streaming site here: http://watch.troma.com You can find Trash Arts Productions here on Twitter: https://twitter.com/trashartsfilm/