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Bannerman and
two male officers are selected to guard
a new prisoner who's an infamous eater. What does that
mean? Well basically he eats people. At first this
seems like a pretty cool task but Bannerman soon
realizes that something's going on. Will she be able
to survive the night with the eater?
Fear Itself *shrugs*, every week I have to put myself
through an hour of misery just to be able to bash in
the latest episode. Well this luckily isn't quite the
case this week. Eater is actually somewhat decent. Yes!
I know! I was almost as surprised as you. However,
not quite since this was the one episode that they
showed at the Cannes market this year. I'm putting
my money on that this is the only episode that they
felt fairly pleased with and I can understand why.
Eater is a typical shape shifter movie (don't worry,
I didn't ruin it for you, it's revealed fairly early
on in the movie) where a crazy cannibal roams around
at a police station, taking on the form of Bannerman's
colleagues. Who's Bannerman? It's a female officer
obsessed with horror movies that everybody picks on.
She's the obvious victim. I don't know why but this
episode reminded me a lot of The Fair-Haired Child
from Masters Of Horror, and just like that, this only
ended up being somewhat decent. No, Eater isn't a
great film by any means, it's just A WHOLE LOT better
than the crap that we've had to sit through so far
when it comes to "Fear Itself".
Everything about this episode is pretty basic and
average. The story is averagely entertaining, the
acting is averagely good and you know just what
angles director Stuart Gordon is going to use next.
Yes, this was directed by Stuart Gordon, but that
really doesn't say much these days. He manages to
pull this awful TV-show up a couple of notches but
unfortunately it's not enough to get me excited about
next weeks episode. Forgettable, predictable and
mediocre - but still the best episode so far. Watchable
but not a whole lot more.
Minor blood.
Hated the drum music. Hated it.
Very clichéd and unoriginal horror flick but at least
it's somewhat entertaining. We've seen it before and
we know how it's going to play out but considering
that it's a part of "Fear Itself", we should just be
happy that it ended up being watchable.
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