They weren't kidding when they titled this episode
Incident on and off a Mountain Road. Oh and if you are going to watch this one, don't read my review because I will really spoil it for you!
The first episode in a new Showtime Series "Masters of Horror", Incident on and off a Mountain Road was definitely very good. It will keep me tuned in to watch next week, that's for sure.
We start off the story with Ellen (Bree Turner) driving down a desolate mountain road. We see the sign proclaiming "No Gas or Service next 75 miles" and we know something is about to go down. As she looks down to change the radio station (always a bad idea in anything horror related!) there is suddenly a car in the middle of the road and as she tries to slam on the brakes to avoid it, she slides right into it. The bump on the head from the car accident puts her out for a while and she dreams of her first date with Bruce (Ethan Embry) who has a very passionate albeit very negative view on the world.
She awakens only to find that there is no one in the other car and she follows the blood trail to a drop off from the road. Unfortunately, it is not just a victim of a car wreck that she discovers at the bottom of the ravine. Seems there are psychos loose in these here parts and Ellen will have to draw off of the survival skills that Bruce has taught her throughout the years (you learn in flashbacks that he is a serious survivalist in every sense of the word).
After a chase through the woods and several attempts at quashing the attacks of her disfigured assailant, Ellen reaches the home of the said psychopath. The yard is littered with the bodies of unlucky souls who could not get away and Ellen is greeted by her pursuer with the lady from the first car being dragged in tow. She abruptly faints.
Ellen comes to only to find herself confronted by a silly man named Buddy (Angus Scrimm) in a wheelchair who has been chained there by Moonface (that is what he calls the mutated freak who has captured them). He seems to want to sing and eat candy but he eventually helps Ellen free herself only to then yell at the top of his lungs that she is free. We then find out he was never chained in the first place. Crazy old man!
Ellen fights with Moonface and eventually chucks him out a window where he falls to his death in the river below. This may be where you would think the episode would end, but ironically the very person who taught Ellen all of her survival skills, her husband Bruce, ends up being in the trunk of her car. Seems she had been driving up to this area to do a little dump run of her own. Bruce always thought that Ellen was weak and meek and said that the meek would not inherit the earth. Let this be a lesson to all of you to never underestimate the meek!
Masters of Horror: Incident on and off a Mountain Road Cast and Credits
Directed by
Don Coscarelli
Written by
Don Coscarelli
Joe R. Lansdale
Stephen Romano
Cast
Ethen Embry . . . Bruce
Bree Turner . . . Ellen
Angus Scrimm . . . Buddy
Joe DeSantis . . . Moonface
