Tuesday, July 15, 2008

MASTERS OF HORROR: PICK ME UP (2006)

Director: Larry Cohen

Synopsis: A bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere in Washington state. The passengers are taken out one-by-one as two separate serial killers happen to converge on the area.

My take: This one turned out to be pretty entertaining – the concept of two serial killers trying to one-up each other was fun to watch. The entire way through, you are guessing how it will turn out, which killer will prevail, and the ending does not disappoint. While it has some frightening moments, the overall tone is more humorous. Michael Moriarity in the role of the truck driver serial killer really ends up stealing the show. The rest of the acting is very uneven though, the people that play the victims are just terrible. While not extraordinary, this episode was enjoyable.

Body Count: 9 plus a rattlesnake

Best Death: The bus driver gets strangled to death with aforementioned rattlesnake. I don’t think that’s been done before, although wasn’t quite as cool as it sounds like it would be.

2 out of 4 Zombie Faces

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