Unspeakable (2000 film)

Plot

After a car crash kills his daughter Heather and leaves his wife Alice disfigured, paralyzed, and catatonic, James Fhelleps wanders the city. Alice is cared for by Barry, a coprophilic physical therapist who sexually abuses her. James gives a prostitute named Emmy Bruzze a lift; when she tries to seduce him, he kills her during a psychotic break. Emmy's body speaks to him in Heather's voice, begging for help and claiming God is keeping her from him.

James removes all religious objects from his home and believes he communicates telepathically with Alice. Revealed to have molested Heather, James decides to kill street people and their associates to bring Heather back and defeat God. After murdering a perverted priest, he is held at gunpoint by Slick, a minion of street king Hell; James wounds Slick but loses part of an ear. A mob of homeless people attacks James, who flees to his apartment and finds Barry having sex with Alice.

James disfigures Barry, who later commits suicide out of fear of prison. James rigs the apartment to explode, killing Slick and Alice. In a daze, James kills Hell and his lackey Marco while they harass a prostitute and her daughter, and is shot himself. The ambiguous ending shows James getting out of bed, going into Heather's bedroom, and telling her to be quiet.

Reception

Film Bizarro wrote that Unspeakable showed promise, noting it is fairly ambitious, relatively well shot, with mostly good effects and actors who handle their characters well despite an often weak plot. Dread Central gave it two and a half out of five, criticizing the pace and uninteresting subplots but calling it a commendable first effort that delivers an angry wallop.