I did like it for my part. Not the best MOH episode, but still a beautiful one imo. It is disgusting but to its own merit, i like the fact that men still want to save her before they actually know the truth about her. And yes, many men (if not every man) would react the same. Fair review though. It’s not the best story out there, it quickly becomes about the pace of the horror instead of how you could develop it as a psychological story in a 2 hours film. But in terms of gruesome, let’s not forget that Takashe Miike’s Imprint episode couldn’t be aired on TV. It’s not Cigarette Burns (Carpenter’s), Pick Me Up (Larry Cohen’s) and neither is it Imprint but it’s still holds up in my top5 MOH episodes.
Thanks for your comment jonnyrp. I appricate the feedback. Personally, I find this worse than Imprint in terms of disturbing content; the sex mized with violence, while present in Imprint really stood out for me here. And I didn’t hate this episode. I think it could have been better, but overall at least very memorably gruesome. And I do like how the men try and save her despite her ugliness. It shows a good light in their character
I thought this was one of the tamer Masters of Horror episodes, the first one with Moonface was pretty explicit, and Cigarette Burns was as well. Sick Girl with Angela Bettis is probably my favorite, Family was good too… but all in all, not that shocking. Compare it to American Horror Story – much more gore and disturbing content than any Masters of Horror episode. If you feel like not sleeping, try watching the original French version of Martyrs – that’s the only horror film that ever actually bugged me (I laughed my way through A Serbian Film and all the Human Centipedes). Enjoy!
Oh, and I met the chick who played Jenifer years ago (2006ish) at a horror expo while helping at William Lutiz’s booth… she’s very pretty and nice in person. 😛
That’s awesome man. I’d love to ask her how playing such a gruesome character was. And for me, I think it was the sex mixed with the violence, as well as watching Jenifer have sex that made this hard to watch personally. While there were certainly more violent episodes (Pelts lol), this one had the mixture of sex and gore that really grossed me out. And Ive seen most of the New French Extremity. Martyrs is a hell of a lot bloodier than this, Ill agree.