BEWARE THE FAIR HAIRED CHILD By: SASHA SLAUGHTER

Hey hey hey!! Sasha Slaughter here with you for another mind blowing week of pure talent and awesomeness...can you handle it?? =) This is the last week of random hodgepodge stuff (Boo! After this Zane gets to boss me!) and I'll be reviewing Masters of Horror episode 9: The Fair Haired Child. It was written by Mick Garris and directed by William Malone (Who happened to direct Feardotcom and House on Haunted Hill).

Young loner Tara is on her way home from a day of being tortured at school when she notices a van following her. While riding her bike through the woods she feels like someone is following her and just then a van runs into her. A man (Anton) emerges from the van, drugs Tara and tosses her in the back. Tara wakes up hours later, her mind hazy and a little confused. She sees a woman (Judith) sitting in the room with her. The woman says that she is a nurse and that Tara was found on the side of the road drugged. She then tells her that she is in Vermont and Tara starts freaking out and telling her that she's from Connecticut and doesn't understand what she's doing there.

Tara tells her she needs to call her mom and the woman says it's OK. Tara reaches her mom but her mom is too wasted to help. When Tara realizes the woman calling her by her name without telling her what it was, she freaks out and tries to leave. She yells out the window for help and notices she isn't in a hospital, but she's in someones home. The man from the van runs into Tara and grabs and he and his wife throw her into the basement. Tara hears noises in the basement and sees a teenage boy trying to hang himself. Tara helps him and gets the rope off of his neck. She quickly understands that he can't speak so he writes her messages in the dust of the basement floor. They begin looking for a way out when they see the words "Get out before it wakes up" scratched into a cabinet.                   

They then see a door with the words "Beware the fair haired child" carved into it. They open door and find a room full of backpacks from other children who had been kidnapped, a bathtub stained with blood and a cabinet full of skulls. Meanwhile, Judith and Anton are outside digging up a grave and taking body parts from a bag and putting them into a barrel of acid. (Idk how that's relevant to the story...whatever!) They are both having flashbacks of the drowning death of their fifteen year old son and the ritual they performed to have him brought back to life.

Back in the basement Johnny starts spazzing and writes "It's coming" in the dust on floor and then collapses. Tara screams that they killed him when his body starts convulsing and this creepy looking thing crawls out of Johnny's body. It begins chasing Tara and eventually finds her hiding in a furnace. She narrowly escapes the thing and gets away from it before it can harm her. Judith hears the commotion in the basement and says "Do what you have to do....so you can come back to me". Johnny wakes up and tries giving clues to Tara so she can figure out whats going on. She figures out that Johnny is actually Judith and Anton's son Jonathan and that they are trying to bring him back to life. He helps her figure out that they made a deal with a demon to kill twelve children every year on his birthday. He reveals to her that she is the last child they need to kill in order for him to come back to life.  

He writes "Please forgive me" on the wall in chalk when the room goes black and the screaming starts. Jonathan turns into the creepy thing and starts eating Tara's insides. His parents go down into the basement and find Jonathan all bloody with a note written by Tara in her own blood reading "I forgive you Johnny". They realize that he's OK and back to normal. Later that night he is sitting alone quietly when his parents ask him what he's doing. He replies that he is waiting for something. He gets up and tells them that he was always jealous of their musical abilities and that he realized he has a talent of his own. The talent for bargaining. His mother begins to ask him what he's done and then....

What exactly did little Johnny bargain for?? Guess you'll have to watch Fair Haired Child and see for yourself. Now onto what I thought!! Ya know, I actually kinda liked it! The plot was really good and so was the acting. There wasn't a whole lot of violence or anything, but it got the point across without needing any of that. There was a bit of blood but none of the three B's (Sorry pervs!!!). Overall I'd give Fair Haired Child a 3 out of a possible 5. I KNOW!! I enjoyed watching it and the ending surprised the hell outta me! And that little creepy thing crawling outta Johnny with it's jerky movements and it's glowing night vision eyes....YOWZA!! That was creepy with a capital C ya'll!!! It gave me the wiggins for sure! So, that's all you need to hear from me. Don't forget to check out what Zane's got in store for the last week of random stuff month. I'm almost certain it just might contain some nudity...or more corpses...who knows! So stop by and see!!

SASHA SLAUGHTER