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Masters of Horror - Cigarette Burns

episode 1.8

USA 2005
produced by
Stephen R. Brown (executive), Morris Berger (executive), John W.Hyde (executive), Mick Garris (executive), Keith Addis (executive), Andrew Deane (executive) for IDT Entertainment, Nice Guy Productions, Industry Entertainment/Showtime
directed by John Carpenter
starring Norman Reedus, Udo Kier, Gary Hetherington, Christopher Britton, Zara Taylor, Chris Gauthier, Douglas Arthurs, Colin Foo, Gwynyth Walsh, Christopher Redman, Julius Chapple, Taras Kostyuk, Brad Kelly, Lynn Wahl, Brahm Taylor, Rikki Gagne, Crystal Mudry
written by Drew McWeeny, Scott Swan, music by Cody Carpenter

TV-series
Masters of Horror

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Rich businessman Bellinger (Udo Kier) hires theatre owner and film collector Kirby (Norman Reedus) to find for him the legendary film Le Fin Absolue du Monde, a film that was screened only once and that turned the entire audience into homicidal maniacs and the auditiorium into a slaughterhouse ... if just to see what the film is all about. Searching for the film, Kirby is first confronted with a wall of silence, which he only very gradually anages to break through, but the closer he gets to the film, the more he is plagued by strange visions that seem to have to do with the suicide of his heroin-addicted girlfriend Annie (Zara Taylor) and the guilt he feels since.

Finally, Kirby makes it to the widow of the film's director, who really deems him worthy of the film (probably because of his many strange visions) and hands it over just like that.

Kirby hands over the film to Bellinger, collects the reward money and thinks that's it ... but while still watching the film, Bellinger calls Kirby back to his house, and when Kirby arrives there, he finds Bellinger's butler (Colin Foo) gone completely mental, who kills himself before his very eyes, and Bellinger, who is jsut about to insert his guts into the film projector ... ouch.

Then the father of Kirby's dead girlfriend appears on the scene and tries to kill him, but Kirby kills him in self defense. Ultimately Kirby realizes that the power of Le Fin Absolue du Monde doesn't lie so much in the film as such but in the grief and guilt in the audience it draws upon. Then Kirby takes the gun Annie's dad wanted to kill him with and shoots himself. The end.

 

In part, this film is a retelling of John Carpenter's rather disappointing In the Mouth of Madness from ten years earlier, in part it's a humourless version of the Monty Python sketch The World's Funniest Joke, in part it's unelegant neo-noir, in part it's just really bad soap opera, and in part it's a poor man's psychodrama, all of this packed into an hour's worth of horrorfilm. The result is pretty much as bad as all of this sounds, a horor story that is built around the setpiece towards the end and desperately tries to waste some time until it's time for the climax, but features a story that seems to go nowhere in particular.

Another disappointment by John Carpenter, who has made a few great films in his career (Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween), but at least as many films (Starman, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Village of the Damned) that weren't even worth the price of admission ...

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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