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PLOT

Ellen is calmly driving down the middle of a quiet mountain road late one night when she accidentally hit’s a car. The car’s empty, but she sees a blood trail and decides to see where it leaves. That leads her to Moonface, who just happens to be carrying off the body of another woman. She runs off and starts having flashbacks about her husband Bruce. He was a psycho of sorts, convinced that the world was going to end. We see them having sex and dating during the good times and the not so good times when he hit her, almost raped her and taught her to fire a gun. Moonface thinks he has her caught, but through her flashbacks we see what Ellen actually knows and see her hidden secret.

TRIVIA

Based on the short story by Joe R. Landsdale.

Directed by Don Coscarelli who also did the Phantasm movies and (my personal fave) Bubba Ho-Tep.

Was the very first episode ever to air of the Masters of Horror series.

THOUGHTS

Incident On and Off a Mountain Road is my favorite episode of the entire Masters of Horror series. A lot of people seemed to like Cigarette Burns and Chocolate, but this one ranks as my top. Ever since I first saw it, I’ve been recommending it to people like crazy. I love seeing Ethan Embry as the whack job husband in flashbacks (especially since I still harbor a love of the cancelled show Freaky Links) and Ellen is the kind of character that you can actually root for and still like at the end. Plus it has a fairly interesting little twist that you might not see coming. If you haven’t seen it yet, see it now.

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