A failing whorehouse, a sadistic sheriff, and one kid everybody loves—what could go wrong?
It is 1889, New Mexico. The gold rush is over and most of the prospectors have moved on. In the middle of nowhere stands a crumbling Antebellum mansion - a bordello that has seen better days. Enoch, the inept pimp, owes a considerable amount of money to the town's psychopathic Sheriff. Money is tight: business is down and the five-woman in the house are tearing each other apart. The only thing they can agree on is their love for Angel, a seven-year-old child whose mother died in childbirth.
Production
That crumbling mansion is a character—decay as production design.
Acting
Holden-Ried's Enoch: pathetic, dangerous, weirdly magnetic.
Director
Carlo Liconti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Neo-westerns about economic collapse hit different post-2008—this one's basically 'The Beguiled' meets a foreclosure notice.
That 1.5 TMDB rating with 2 votes? Brutal. Either festival audiences hated it or nobody's seen it—which feels thematically appropriate for a film about obscurity and failure.
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