"Masters of Horror" The Fair Haired Child (2006)

Director:

William Malone

Writers:

Mick Garris (creator)
Matt Greenberg (written by)

TV Series:

"Masters of Horror" (2005)

Original Air Date:

6 January 2006 (Season 1, Episode 9)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

A warlock couple abduct a young teenage girl to sacrifice her to a mysterious and evil entity as an offering to resurrect their long-dead boy.

Plot Keywords:

Basement | Teenage Girl | Demon | Attempted Suicide | Child Sacrifice

Cast

Lori Petty	...	Judith
Lindsay Pulsipher	...	Tara
Jesse Haddock	...	Johnny
William Samples	...	Anton
Ian A. Wallace	...	Math Teacher (as Ian Wallace)
Haley Morrison	...	Teenage Girl
Walter Phelan	...	Johnny Thing

Runtime:

55 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Certification:

USA:TV-MA | Germany:16

Company:

IDT Entertainment

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Judith is playing the cello, her fingers are not in the right positions at all.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Working with a Master: William Malone (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

Symphony No 7 in A Major op. 92

A far better than "fair" addition to the scary series!

When a high school student finds herself kidnapped, spirited away to far-off place, and locked in the basement of old, defunct music academy with a suicidal young man and an evil demon, her troubles are just beginning.

Fair-Haired Child only has one recognizable name actor in it — Lori Petty — but the entire small cast is top-notch. Director William Malone does a good job in the one-hour format bringing together the threads of a story that span 15 years and culminate in a single night of unspeakable evil.

The attention to detail in Fair-Haired Child — from the elegant décor of the stately mansion inside, to the bony wind chimes that gruesomely clink in the night outside — is breathtaking, and the cinematography is sumptuous. The music, too, plays an important role.

The Masters of Horror anthology series has done a great job so far of not following a theme; while all of the episodes are horror, they're not zingers ala Twilight Zone, or morality yarns ala Tales From the Crypt. Malone's entry is more along the lines of a traditional supernatural horror story, and it's got some good scares and fun visuals. It's a far better than "fair" addition to the scary series!