Apr 15 2009
MASTERS OF HORROR : FAIR HAIRED CHILD
Poor Petty.
PLOT
Tara is your ordinary high school student who’s picked on by the popular kids. One day she’s on her bike after school when a van hits her and the man inside throws her in the van. She wakes up in a hospital where a nurse tries to calm her after reveling that they’re in Vermont and not Connecticut where she was taken. She calls her mom, who basically ignores her because she’s in a drugged out state. She then learns that she’s actually in an old mansion and the kidnapper grabs her before she can escape. They toss her in the basement where she finds a boy named Johnny who’s near death. They become friends, but she finds warnings about a fair-haired child and urgings to run away. They also discover proof that other kids have been taken there in the past. When Johnny starts acting strange, Tara realizes that her new friend might not be as innocent as he looks.
TRIVIA
Directed by William Malone of Fear Dot Com and written by Matt Greenberg of The Prophecy 2 and Halloween H20.
THOUGHTS
It’s impossible to watch The Fair Haired Child without noticing just how bad Lori Petty looks now. It doesn’t seem like that long ago that she was acting regularly, but apparently it has been because here she looks at least 15-20 years older than she did the last time I saw her. She looks even worse than other actresses her same age. When I watched this one recently, I didn’t remember a whole lot about it, except that the girl was kidnapped. It’s kind of a lame story in all fairness and it’s easy to see where the movie’s going and what’s going to happen next. A friend really liked it, but I don’t like movies where I know the ending long before the movie actually ends.
