Masters Of Horror: Family

You know, they say that family is the most important thing. Who says that? Well, it's usually those people for whom family isn't important at all, it's a sort of 'those who can't teach' kind of thing. Well, in horror movies, family is very important, it's often the cause of the horror and that's the case in the Masters Of Horror episode, Family.



Family is really John Landis' version of Psycho, here's the story: George Wendt plays a mild mannered guy who lives quietly in a very normal neighborhood. When some new neighbors move in across the street, he invites them to dinner and is quite hospitable. The only problem is that the neighbors don't meet George's wife, and the reason for that is that George's wife is dead. Oh, she's still in the house...or, at least her skeleton is there, but she hasn't been using it for a while now. It turns out that George is a mental patient who finds the perfect family members, stalks them, kills them and then strips all the skin off of their bones, wires them up and they become his family!

The issue is that the new neighbor lady strikes George's fancy, so he's got his eye on her! Well, not her, so much as her skeleton. As with all the Masters Of Horror series, Family is a great movie, George Wendt is perfectly cast as the weirdo next door, on the outside seemingly very normal and inside twisted and demented.

Family won't make you jump out of your seat, but the hour will pass by like minutes, John Landis has crafted a movie that's just that good, and there's a twist ending that you won't see coming, but caps the movie off perfectly! I'm giving Masters Of Horror: Family four out of four cigars,

because, like the entire series, Family is just one of the best movies from one of the best directors in the world...you can't say more than that! So, until next time, when I'll reveal that my entire family is skeletons too...they still have their skin on them and they're still alive, but they're skeletons under there nonetheless! Until then, remember that the best movies are bad movies.