D Rahul Raj Jsd It's night and today (24th March) is Mr. Jesse Hlubik's birthday. In celebration, I watched an hour long episode of Masters of Horror which he starred in. It also features Angela Bettis and Erin Brown as the two main characters. It was directed by Lucky McKee. Jesse is the best, he is both cool and hilarious. Angela is always great, but it was Erin who really brought the WOW factor to the screen. She gave a truly excellent performance. The episode was a strange mix of romance, horror and comedy that is creeping with bugs throughout. It's one of my favorite episodes from the series. This was also the first time I have seen a production featuring all four of the awesome people mentioned above, and I have to say that I loved every single minute of it!

super marauder I never heard of Luck McKee until now. He seems to be a future master of horror.This story is about this nerd-ish woman who has a fascination for insects. She lives alone in an apartment with her "friends" and has a nosy landlady looking over shoulder. But she does befriend the landlady's granddaughter. One day she gets a package with a strange bug in it and the bug gets loose. She also meets the woman (yes! I said woman)of her dreams, and the mayhem it causes.This is one of quirky off beat movies that is silly but fun. In the spirit of 'Evil Dead 2' it's just......goofy! But fun!

cynthiacher-1 This episode of the "Masters of Horror" series tries very hard to be both amusing and horrifying but doesn't quite manage to be either.The "humor" is very heavy-handed and Angela Bettis's character "Ida Teeter" is a caricature, not a human being. The plot line is promising (a strange, huge bug running loose that can devour mammals and impregnate (!) them) but ultimately goes nowhere. Bettis's co-star Erin Brown (aka Misty Mundae. a soft porn/horror scream queen) tries to make the most of her role as the ditsy, pixie-obsessed "Misty Falls", but leaves no major impression.The whole relationship between the two women seems unbelievably far-fetched. Ida is not particularly attractive, looks much older than Misty, and is very weird and socially-unskilled, and yet Misty has been fixated on her, as it turns out, for YEARS! Misty seems pretty strange herself, but even so her obsession with Ida seems ludicrous. And why does the perfectly normal-seeming Max give the insufferable Ida the time of day, much less be her best friend? The land lady character seems to exist only to be "the bad person who deserved to get killed" role you see in countless unimaginative horror films. And Max is the second "friend of the protagonist" character to get killed that I've seen in the Master of Horror series. Is this some kind of formula that stories in this series must adhere to? I've seen two segments so far and both of them featured the nice friend of the protagonist getting destroyed by a monster. In "Sick Girl", the death of Max was gratuitous and served no purpose at all, except to provide some gore.The ending were terrible, incredibly stupid even for a horror movie. Misty becomes this CREATURE, a "bug" of some kind, and the bug's mandibles (or whatever they have) have torn through her flesh (earlier Misty's ear became a bloody mush and fell off). She's no longer human. But at the end, she's perfectly normal and healthy looking and happily pregnant with the bug's offspring (as is Ida). HOW is it possible to go from having her flesh ripped apart from the inside to being whole again? Like I said, it's stupid even for a horror movie.I'm going to watch two other segments of this series tonight. God, I hope they're better than this!

Son_of_Mansfield This episode had me up until the ending where the bug impregnates the two girls and they are just fine with being shot up with insect splooge and the fact that the bug was sent by one of their fathers. So, apparently, if you are disappointed in your daughters lifestyle choice, it's OK to rape her via insect and get her pregnant with world dominating bugs. Right... The episode makes more sense when you find out that Ida Teeter was originally Ira Teeter and that Roger Corman was to direct. Then, it's just a father who doesn't like his son's choice of mate so he sends his curse of the conquering womb, which is still creepy, but much less offensive. Praise should be given to Erin Brown aka Misty Mundae aka Pale Rider, who shows more acting ability than she is given credit for. Her best scenes are early on when she is being wispy, or misty, in love and the amusing roomy scenes with Angela Bettis. The single greatest shot has to be when she is shown naked as one of the fairies that she likes to draw. As to Bettis, she is given a lot credit, but she is really annoying in this and her almost butch delivery of lines like, "slap my skin honey bee," is painful to hear. Worth a look if you like anyone involved, but not the pinnacle of Masters of Horror.