Jenifer (2005)

"Jenifer" aired during the first season of "Masters of Horror" and was directed by famed Italian director Dario Argento. The episode finds a nice balance between erotic tension and gruesome violence...even if the script itself is weak. Steven Weber stars as the protagonist Frank, and once again this is a poor choice that seems to happen fairly often in this series; the casting is very hit or miss. Besides these two faults, this episode is worth watching and is one of Dario's stronger productions as of late.


Frank is a police officer who happens to hear a disturbance taking place near his unmarked squad car. He arrives in time to save a disfigured young woman from a meat cleaving maniac. Frank goes home but is haunted by visions of the woman, who has a beautiful body but a gruesome looking face. Frank goes back to work and finds out that the woman he saved is named Jenifer and she has been sent off to a local insane asylum. He takes her home where she scares away his wife and son. Jenifer seduces Frank when he tries to take her away and so he brings her back to his place. She then kills a young neighbor and then kills a carnie that Frank hired to kidnap her and take her away. Frank is forced to take her out to a deserted cabin in the woods and finds a job working at a small local grocery store. After killing again, Frank takes her out into the woods to kill her but he's killed instead by a passing hunter, and thus the cycle of seduction begins anew.