TV-MA, 58 min.
Director: Dario Argento
Writers: F. Paul Wilson,
Matt Venne
Starring: Meat Loaf Aday,
Ellen Ewusie, Link Baker, Emilio Salituro, Elsie Lew, John Saxon, Michal
Suchanek, Brenda McDonald
Italian horror maestro Dario
Argento’s second entry into the “Masters of Horror” television series, “Pelts”,
is a better effort than his first. While “Jenifer” gave me the impression that
Argento was pretty much just used as a hired hand, “Pelts” has more visual
style that can be attributed to the Argento vision.
The plot still doesn’t seem
to be on a subject that should interest Argento. It’s a typical cursed object
horror plot, where whoever touches or affects the cursed object pays for it in
horrible ways. In this case, the cursed objects are a bunch of sacred raccoon
pelts that the main character uses to make a beautiful fur coat. That last part
has a little bit of the Argento touch to it since he makes the coat for a
stripper that is the object of his obsession.
The deaths are creative and
I liked how all but one had something to do with the role that each victim
played in the fate of the pelts. A seamstress sews her eyelids, mouth and nose
shut. The material cutter takes the scissors to his own gut. The trappers dispatch
themselves in the traditions of their trade. And the clothing maker creates a
vest out of his own torso skin. I didn’t think the stripper’s death fit into
the pattern, which is too bad since the pattern of death was so strong up to
her death.
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