Synopsis
The Italian horror king Dario ARGENTO reveals the world of horrifying and heartless curse that animal abuse triggered. In Season 2, full of socially-sensitive themes, Pelts is the most interesting and exciting episode. Dario ARGENTO, who showed the bloodiest violence along with Miike TAKASHI of Imprint in Season 1, drives his fans again into selfless excitement with intensely violent scenes that deserve praise and admiration. There are father and son who hunt around animals and sell their pelts to furriers as means of living. One day, they find a lot of racoons, caught in their traps and kill them by breaking their necks so as not to damage the pelts for a better deal. The racoons die with eyes of grudge and hatred. Since then, people engaged in racoon pelt trade kill themselves or are horribly killed. The massacre reminds us of ARGENTO's best days with contrast with intense primary colors, lighting effect and the electric melody of Claudio SIMONETTI who is a member of the Italian progressive rock band 'Goblin' and has worked with ARGENTO for a long time. Notably, the car chase and the bloody violence in the elevator in the later part of the movie reveal the identity of Dario's film like painter's signature and seal. More than anything else, Pelts shows fascinating gore effects. People gets back the brutality that they committed on the racoons in a spectacular manner. I could not even believe my own eyes, watching them scraping their stomach with scissors to expose intestines and peeling off skin over their bust after stabbing their own body to offer it as a gift to a favorite stripper. Pursuing aesthetics in murder, Dario ARGENTO shows a different dimension of hard-gore movie from the U.S. directors in Pelts. He has a great technique of describing killing scenes but what is even better is his surprisingly pure enthusiasm with which he deals with the world of violence. It is also a serious warning to fur lovers. (KIM Jong Chul)