Thursday, July 24, 2008

MASTERS OF HORROR: RIGHT TO DIE (2007)

Director: Rob Schmidt

Synopsis: A dentist is faced with the tough choice of whether or not to pull the plug on his comatose wife after a bad car accident. His decision changes as he becomes tormented by the retribution-seeking ghostly spirit of his wife.

My take: I am enjoying these Twilight Zone/Tales from the Crypt style MoH episodes (Right to Die, Chocolate, Pick Me Up) much more than the ridiculous zombie/vampire episodes (Haeckel’s Tale, Dance of the Dead, Dreams in the Witch-House), I think they are much more suspenseful and interesting to watch. This episode proceeded very well most of the way, providing a good mix of nightmarish gore and mystery. However, things do start falling apart towards the end ***SPOILERS*** with the re-imagining of the car crash and the do-it-yourself skin graft. Overall though, it was entertaining for an hour. The potentially controversial right-to-die issues really don't come in to play much here, it exists as more of just a background story to the supernatural occurances.

Favorite Part: The woman’s grisly body crawling around was pretty cool and creepy.

Body count: 3

2 out of 4 Zombie Faces

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