{"id":3432,"date":"2009-10-24T18:40:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2009-10-24T18:40:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:40:56","slug":"eater-2008-stuart-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/3432","title":{"rendered":"Eater (2008, Stuart Gordon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Nothing worse than a horror movie geek.”<\/p>\n

My three-year quest to see every Jacques Rivette<\/a> film is slowly ongoing, my five-or-six-year quest to see every Luis Bunuel<\/a> film proceeds at one title per year, but I thought it was best to push those cinematic luminaries aside and watch everything by Stuart Gordon<\/a>, creator of classic 80’s horrors Re-Animator<\/em> and From Beyond<\/a><\/em>. Why is that? Because during SHOCKtober<\/a> it’s nice to have someone you can rely on. While I admit there was nothing special about Daughter of Darkness<\/a><\/em>, his Masters of Horror<\/a><\/em> episodes have always been good, and this one, from the quickly-cancelled and rumored-to-be-crappy season 3 (aka Fear Itself<\/em>) was excellent.<\/p>\n

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Starts out promising, setting a creepy horror mood off the bat, with a shadowy, rattle-shaking voodoo prisoner Dwayne (horror regular Stephen Hart) loaded into a police station jail cell for the night, the station lights flickering so badly that I’m thinking the episode’s budget didn’t include lighting and sets.<\/p>\n

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Our protagonist, eager rookie Bannerman (Mad Men<\/em> star Elisabeth Moss) is a horror fan, turned on by proximity to Dwayne, wants to hear more about his crimes. I figured it’d go in a more Silence of the Lambs<\/em> direction here, but there’s no time for quiet spooky conversations about fava beans – Dwayne “escapes” by possessing the bodies of the other cops, saving her for last. Interesting horror tactic – we don’t see any killings, just find bodies left behind, like the ending of Halloween<\/em>, hidden all over the place. Bannerman is trapped in the locked station with a cannibal psycho killer and is definitely going to be eaten, so she eats rat poison, so when he catches up and takes a bite out of her neck, it kills them both.<\/p>\n

It’s not like Gordon to have such a shocking, depressing ending, but it works. Anyway he didn’t write the episode – the guys behind WTF story The Washingtonians<\/a><\/em> did. Nicely done, extremely tense little flick (maybe a tad underlit) with a great supporting cast. Witness:<\/p>\n

Stephen Lee, star of Dolls<\/a><\/em> over 20 years ago and still kinda looking the same
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Russell Hornsby, whom I loved as the boyfriend in Stuck<\/a><\/em>
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Nick Sobotka, star of The Wire<\/em> season 2<\/a>.
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“Nothing worse than a horror movie geek.” My three-year quest to see every Jacques Rivette film is slowly ongoing, my five-or-six-year quest to see every Luis Bunuel film proceeds at one title per year, but I thought it was best to push those cinematic luminaries aside and watch everything by Stuart Gordon, creator of classic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[955,54,12,59,52],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-cannibalism","tag-horror","tag-masters-of-horror","tag-stuart-gordon","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}