Two curious teenage boys break into an old mortuary looking for thrills, only to find themselves stalked by a former teacher who is a very real vampire looking to increase the ranks of the undead.
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THE V WORD sees two teens breaking into a funeral home to get a look at a bully who has died. They get far more than they bargained for, as there is a vampire inhabiting the funeral home and he is perpetually thirsty. Michael Ironside is the vampire, and his method of drinking blood is to tear a large gash in the victim's throat first. Plenty of nasty corpses on display, plenty of gashed throats, but the story loses steam in the second half. It got so boring, in fact, I turned it off before the grand finale. Throat slashing is always fun to watch, but too much of it tends to spoil the broth, as it were. And I hate to say it, but Ironside reminded me more of a ghoul than a vampire. Ghouls have never floated my boat.
"V" Word, The (2006) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Ernest Dickerson directs this third entry of season 2 from Masters of Horror. Two teens go to a funeral home to see the dead body of a guy who use to pick on them but they get more than they bargained for when a vampire shows up. As with other episodes, this one here contains a lot of gore, which will please horror fans but the first half also offers some great atmosphere. The opening takes place inside the funeral home and the director is able to use it to great effect. However, once the vampire stuff kicks in the film gets rather lazy and it really doesn't offer us anything we haven't seen before. The performances are good and the music score is also nice. There's a couple nice homages to Bela Lugosi and other horror films.
I have a feeling that strict horror fans are the ones writing positive reviews of the Masters of Horror episodes, as they have been mostly abysmal thus far. This episode in particular is particularly awful - the first half absolutely does not make use of its creepy setting. The reasons for why the kids go there is questionable, and the backstory surrounding the protagonist and his father is absolutely idiotic. Halfway through, the episode completely shifts gears and turns into a vampire story, and gets even more ridiculous when the revelation is made about who the head vampire is. The show practically caves in on itself by the time the end credits roll. What a waste of time. Avoid like the plague.
The third episode of the second season of my favorite series, Masters of Horror, was not a disappointment to me at all. I thought there could have been better acting, but you can't expect the best out of just anyone. The plot was a good one and Branden Nadon and Arjay Smith (as newcomers) delivered well; well enough to even scare me a little bit. To me this episode was the best one so far of the series (of course after watching episodes thereafter: Sounds Like, Pro-Life, Pelts)all of which didn't make a lick of sense to me. There was gore but that's not all Horror is about. Gore isn't scary, sneaking around in a dark room looking for a light switch and not knowing what's around the corner is scary; The V Word had its gore but it also had its shock moments. If you want to watch a good episode of Season 2, The V Word is the one to watch.
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