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Masters Of Horror – John Landis’ Deer Woman/Lucky McKee’s Sick Girl

 

Picture: B-    Sound: B-     Extras: B-      Episodes: C each

 

 

When the Masters Of Horror series was announced as a big cable event, a wide majority of Horror fans though we would finally get a return to basics and an unforgettable show since so many key directors were participating.  The genre has been in such trouble for a long time, it needs al the help in can get in a sea of stupid pictures and especially stupid remakes.  Instead, it now far surpasses Amazing Stories as the most overblown package deal anthology show of all time.

 

The two lousy installments here are from fallen director John Landis and B-movie director Lucky McKee.  Both awkwardly cross women and other living creatures and both are more comfortably smug in their would-be humor than offering anything truly scary.  Deer Woman is Landis’ entry about a woman who seduces than hooves people to death.  (I know, don’t laugh.  I kid you not).  Sick Girl crosses women, insects and lesbianism, at least male-created thought police lesbianism.  I could not believe how pedestrian and silly these were.  The lack of innovation, energy and true fun is the only shocking thing about these entries.  If you are going to start anywhere with the series, these are not the volumes to begin with.

 

Like the previous volumes, the picture quality for both episodes being covered here is average for 1.78 X 1 anamorphically enhanced widescreen, but clean.  Also, despite being framed in a theatrical aspect ratio, it's somehow difficult to shrug off the made for TV look of the shows.  There's something shallow about the feel and look of these, but the transfers seem to be done well so it likely all stems directly from when these were shot.  Is it too much digital work?  The sound quality is decent, and the episodes are presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound that isn't bad.  Nothing extraordinary, but it gets the job done well enough.

 

Extras on the Landis volume include six featurettes, audio commentary, vintage Landis interview, stills, trailers, text bio on Landis and DVD-ROM printable teleplay.  Extras on the McKee volume include six featurettes, audio commentary, stills, trailers, text bio on McKee and DVD-ROM printable teleplay.  Both come with a trading card in the DVD case.  In all, these are not as good as the Coscarelli & Garris episodes, and they were not all that hot, so maybe they should just rename the series “Masters Of Gross Comedy” or the like.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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