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Circa 19th century, somewhere:
A young man called Ralston (Steve Bacic) asks a necromancer to raise
his wife, who has died before her age, from the dead. Instead of just
doing that, the necromancer tells Ralston the story of Haeckel, and
promises him if he after the story is finished still wants his wife
revived, she will do so.
Haeckel (Derek Cecil) was a brilliant young scientist who is hell-bent
on bringing the dead back to life ... but for that, hs just isn't
brilliant enough. When he cannot achieve his goals through science, he
pays a visit to Montesquino (Jon Polito), the local necromancer ... but he
just can't bring himself to believe that this sideshow performer has
achieved through magic what he couldn't achieve through science.
Later, on his way home from wherever, Haeckel is caught in a storm and
old man Wolfram (Tom McBeath) offers him shelter, which he gladly accepts.
Curiously enough, Wolfram, a simple and not-too-well-off old man has the
most beautiful young wife, Elise (Leela Savasta), and there is only one
odd thing about her: She has a strange fascination for the local
necropolis ... and at night, Haeckel finds out why: Elise's first husband,
whom she is still in love with, is buried there, and she and Wolfram have
paid necromancer Montesquino to bring him back to life and ... well, to
with her what lovers do ...
Haeckel, rather understandably, is shocked by this, and he wants to go
to the graveyard to save her, but once there, he, Wolfram and Montesquino
are all killed by the undead ... but are revived from the dead soon
enough, and soon enough they stand in line to have sex with Elise too (the
whole thing turns out to be a bit of a gangbang, actually. Ah yeah, and
did I mention that Elise even has an undead baby ? No ? No matter, it's of
no fur4ther consequence anyways ...
Back in the now, the necromancer has finished her story, which is
exactly when all the undead of the story pay her a visit, and it turns out
that she is actually Elise.
Unsurprisingly, Ralston flees in panic.
This episode is not without its highlights ... but by and large it
loses itself in meaningless subplots, while at the same time it doesn't
always make sense, e.g. why do the undead at one point start killing
people, and why does Elise, if she's as much in love with her dead husband
as she claims, always have zombie gangbangs ?
Considering this is an episode of Masters of Horror, Haeckel's
Tale is probably not too bad - but that's not saying much given the
remarkable unevenness of the series !!!
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