Parlor (2015)

Parlor: Directed by Devon Downs, Kenny Gage. With Robert LaSardo, Sara Fabel, Jordan James Smith, Joey Fisher. A mysterious nomad known as the “Artist” practices a dark art form passed down through the generations.

“Grim, amateurish little torture porn bauble set in a Vilnius tattoo parlor, only slightly elevated by a menacing performance from Robert LaSardo as u0026quot;The Artist.u0026quot; Heu0026#39;s the only thing worth watching here, despite the lovely location, which this film wastes. The other performances are so appalling and the dialogue so unimaginative that itu0026#39;s hard to tell how much of it was improvised — on one hand, I canu0026#39;t imagine anyone writing this garbage out and thinking, u0026quot;Yeah, that sounds right;u0026quot; on the other, all the characters (The Artist excepted) sound exactly alike, even with multiple accents, each as aggressively unlikable and inarticulate as the next. A film called u0026quot;Anarchy Parloru0026quot; might reasonably be expected to deliver some inkling of wild imagination, some hint that the filmmakers understand transgression. This predictable, mundane mess fails to deliver.”