S1.E11

Pick Me Up

Name: Pick Me Up
Genre: Horror
Released: 2006-01-20
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Fairuza Balk, Michael Moriarty, Warren Kole

Episode aired Jan 20, 2006
TV-MATV-MA
58m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

3.4K

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Horror

In the middle of nowhere, with only a two-lane highway to connect it to anywhere, a recently divorced woman traveler, who's a passenger on a bus that has broken down, gets caught in a bizarr... Read allIn the middle of nowhere, with only a two-lane highway to connect it to anywhere, a recently divorced woman traveler, who's a passenger on a bus that has broken down, gets caught in a bizarre and violent turf war between serial killers.In the middle of nowhere, with only a two-lane highway to connect it to anywhere, a recently divorced woman traveler, who's a passenger on a bus that has broken down, gets caught in a bizarre and violent turf war between serial killers.

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

3.4K

YOUR RATING

- Larry Cohen
- Mick Garris
- David J. Schow(teleplay)
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Fairuza Balk in Masters of Horror (2005)

Michael Moriarty in Masters of Horror (2005)

Fairuza Balk, Michael Moriarty, and Warren Kole in Masters of Horror (2005)

Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe in Masters of Horror (2005)

Storyline

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Trivia
The first and only film Larry Cohen directed that he did not write. He took the job in part to prove to people that he could direct someone else's material.

Goofs
When the punk women is tied to the bed in the motel room she is wearing red underwear, the scene cuts to the TV being turned off, then the women is now wearing white underwear.

Quotes
Walker: Now, our judgmental trucker friend here, he's the type of guy who likes to hunt. He likes to theorize about prey, and he likes to think about worthy opponents and fair game, and just with all that bullshit. He loves it. Very romantic. Now, he thinks he ain't a predator. You should have seen him back at that bus.
[inhales]
Walker: [pause] You see all these little trinkets? These little souvenirs? Look at that. He never saw the Horrible Thing. He just kept the button.
[chuckles]
Walker: Now, your genuinely dangerous individuals, they almost never look... crazy. They don't have any weird tattoos, they don't have any weird stitches on their face, no funny-shaped heads - they are *not*
[licks his lips]
Walker: predictable.

Connections
Features C-Bear and Jamal (1996)

Soundtracks
Snakes in the Snow
Written and Performed by Michael Moriarty.

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Review

Featured review

8/10

Michael Moriarty carries this episode

Ahaaa, this is a special entry in the Masters Of Horrors series. There's almost no blood to spot and still it's pure horror made only by characterisation and especially done by Michael Moriarty who plays the trucker. The way he acted levitates this episode to a higher level.

Even as the story is simple and the ending is predictable I still enjoyed it. When a bus breaks down on a highway two serial killers are trying to help them but they don't know that they are both serial killers. It's a game of hunting down and being hunted until the end. Sure I said that there's almost no blood and that's correct, only the two in the van are really slaughtered, one sliced and the girl being tortured and skinned alive in a motel room. But it surely never becomes gory. This really needs the characters and it really worked out fine.

One of the better episodes.

Gore 1/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 3/5 Story 4/5 Comedy 0/5

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