Masters of Horror: The Fair Haired Child (2006)
Season 1, Episode 9
7/10
An interesting entry into the "Master's of Horror" series.
26 July 2009
My favorite of the show still has to be John Carpenter's "Cigarette Burns" as it has a very interesting plot that I kind of wish could have been explored more. This one was rather good too, though it too could have really benefited from an extra ten or fifteen minutes of runtime to explain the story more. A girl is kidnapped and brought to a house where she is eventually left in a basement type area where she meets a boy who is not all that he appears to be. The two others in the house are obviously harboring secrets of the deadly kind and the main girl in the stories time is running out. You get your mystery type situation and a rather good ending too. Just needs more filler, perhaps more information on the parents and stuff like that. However, that can be said about all the movies in this series, they all seem to need a bit more. As for gore there is a bit, no nudity in it though. The performances are pretty good, but it was rather shocking to see how bad Lori Petty looks now. So for a couple of scares and a somewhat incomplete story this one is like almost every "Master's of Horror" episode.
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