"Masters of Horror" Chocolate (2005)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Mick Garris

Writers:

Mick Garris (creator)
Mick Garris (teleplay)

TV Series:

"Masters of Horror" (2005)

Original Air Date:

25 November 2005 (Season 1, Episode 5)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

In Chicago, the lonely Jamie works in the food laboratory of a company developing flavors with his best friend Wally...

Plot Keywords:

Blood | Murder | Psychic | Clairvoyant | Masters Of Horror

Cast

Henry Thomas	...	Jamie
Matt Frewer	...	Wally
Stacy Grant	...	Vanessa
Jake D. Smith	...	Booth (as Jake Smith)
Michael Curtola	...	Band Member
Katharine Horsman	...	Sue
Paul Wu	...	Hooper
Leah Graham	...	Elaine
Lucie Laurier	...	Catherine
Ali Staseson	...	Young Girl
Peter Bryant	...	Detective #1
Ken Dresen	...	Detective #2 (as Ken Dressen)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-MA | Italy:VM14 | Germany:16 | Finland:K-15 (TV rating) (self applied) (2008) | Finland:K-18 (DVD) (self applied) (2007) | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

British Columbia Production Tax Credit

Trivia:

When Jamie is in his bed, he takes the book "Desperation" by Stephen King off his night stand. Director Mick Garris directed the TV version of Desperation (2006) (TV), in which Henry Thomas also stars.

Goofs:

Factual errors: A newspaper is shown briefly with the words "site of grizzly killing." The correct word would be "grisly," as "grizzly" means "speckled with gray" or refers to a type of bear.

Quotes:

Wally: Who knows, you might meet a rock 'n roll nymphomaniac.

Soundtrack:

Welcome

Masters Of Horror: Chocolate (Mick Garris, 2005) **

This is easily one of the most confusing – and dreary – entries in the MOH series: a divorced young American (Henry Thomas, the boy from E.T. [1982]!) unaccountably finds himself feeling everything that a woman – a complete stranger to him and a Canadian resident to boot – is going through (including her sexual activity!). What could have easily been developed into a perceptive black comedy comes across as very silly indeed and, as I said, ends up making no sense whatsoever! Eventually, the hero gets to meet the lady of his 'dreams' – by which time she has committed a murder and, of course, he falls in love with her; however, their relationship can never work properly…since she is unable to lead any sort of private life, and it all concludes on a sour note with Thomas shooting the girl dead. The title, by the way, is a reference to the fact that his sensation of eating chocolate (when he had had none) was the first indication for Thomas that something was amiss; equally tangential, then, is the subplot involving his co-worker – a middle-aged wannabe rocker who embarrassingly sports a red Mohawk during his stage act!