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Love vs Hate. You all know that story, right? Well you have never seen it like this: Love is an escort and Hate is indescribable. What begins with a classic cliche of someone trying to turn their life around quickly becomes a horrific story of trying to keep that life alive. Armed with just the persistence and yearning for something better, Love must overcome Hate and prove she can take care of herself. Breath of Hate is a great change of pace from your run of the mill indie genre film…it has ridiculous presence, thought-out characters and intriguing scenarios from writer Wes Laurie. The acting is superb and every single character adds more than you’d think.


Love (Lauren Walsh) is an escort who wants to quit the profession after a client, Ned (Jason Mewes, yes, the Jay from Jay and Silent Bob Jason Mewes), falls in love with her. Like anybody trying to quit something in a movie, she is sent on one last job. Last job is an understatement as Love and two other escorts, Jenna (Alexis Sibolis) and Hailey (Jeanine Daniels), are dropped off to a house with three escaped mental patients. There’s Selma (Monique Parent), a pain-loving dominatrix, Cleb (Ricardo Gray), a lovable kid trapped in a mind with more than two screws loose that can flip into rage mode at any instance, and Hate (Ezra Buzzington) who is the sickest yet most grounded of them all.

Once in the house, the games begin. Instantly you can tell that something is off but in the world of escorts, that’s probably true for every job. As the party of six get to know each other, Hate is drawn to Love and shows his command by taking her and leaving Jenna for Cleb. This is actually a great match as both seem like they never graduated high school and you get to see a dinosaur ravage a cheerleader. Hailey gets hooked up with Selma in a game of S&M with a baseball bat leaving Love and Hate to duke out their wits with mind games for both each other and the audience. Who’s surprising who and who really has control?

Breath of Hate jumps all over the place in both story and time. Sometimes this makes sense and other times it’s a bit confusing but you get to see a lot more cause and effect in terms of character decisions and revenge. Throughout all the experiences in the house, Ned, Love’s oblivious lover, is out searching for her. He knows something’s wrong and will do anything to save her…including finding and going face to face with her pimp, Sonny (Jack Forcinito). My favorite characters are actually Sonny’s pot-smoking lackey Poot (Timothy Muskatell) and little girl Tabbi (Trista Robinson). They add a whole other dimension to the story and almost play as the comic relief. I say almost because there are a lot of laughs from the horrors going on in the house too (How can you not laugh at a watermelon finger bang?). Director Sean Cain says, “if you really think this film is a simple story about a escort’s last job for some nutjob then you’re going to get your mind blown.” He’s not kidding.


You want to check this one out, it plays on Friday at 7:20pm and again on Monday at 5:20 at Another Hole in the Head.

Tags: AHITH, Alexis Sibolis, Another Hole in the Head, Part 8, Ezra Buzzington, Jack Forcinito, Jason Mewes, Jeanine Daniels, Lauren Walsh, Monique Parent, Part 8, Ricardo Gray, Sean Cain, Timothy Muskatell, Trista Robinson, Wes Laurie

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