Jun 24 2009
MASTERS OF HORROR: CHOCOLATE
Mm, Henry Thomas…
PLOT
Jamie is struggling to handle his job and new life after going through a divorce. One night he starts experiencing the feelings of another woman. He tastes the elegant chocolate she eats, sees her having a fun orgasm in the bathtub, you know, all that usual stuff. He eventually meets a woman and after a night of sex, he flashes to the other woman and has a seizure on the bed as she has sex with a man. He gets obsessed with her and tracks down Catherine, but not before he sees her kill her lover. Eventually she tries to kill him and as the two of them struggle, he can’t figure out if he’s seeing through his own eyes or seeing through hers…
TRIVIA
Aired in the first season of Masters of Horror.
Directed by Mick Garris who also wrote the short story Chocolate.
Garris has done several collaborations with Stephen King. Frewer (actor in the episode) starred in the television adaptation of The Stand and Thomas starred in Desperation, also from King.
THOUGHTS
The twelve year old girl inside of me is about to come out for a minute because I love (love, love) Henry Thomas. E.T. remains one of my favorite movies of all time and even though he’s all grown up now, I still love him. That said, Chocolate isn’t the best Masters of Horror episode. Matt Frewer as Jamie’s friend Wally is without a doubt the best thing about the episode. I always think about him as the Trash Can man from The Stand, which firmly establishes the Stephen King connection here. The whole plot idea is interesting, but there’s something about it that doesn’t really work for me.
