This episode of "Masters of Horror" doesn't make a lot of sense. But it makes up for it by being really, really disgusting and filled with copious amounts of nudity. It was an odd mix--lots and lots of nudity (like a soft-core porn film) and lots of disgusting yechiness. It certainly is not an easy episode to love...just like its character, Jenifer.The show begins with a cop (Steven Weber) seeing a crazed man about to butcher a woman. He orders the man to stop but he refuses and the cop is forced to shoot the man. Only then does he get a good look at the lady--and she is a hideous monster with an amazingly sexy body. Now here is where it gets weird and makes no sense---she is put in a mental institution and he checks her out to come live with him and his family. From the beginning, this doesn't work out--as she's a monster!! But for some reason, the cop cannot let her go and soon begins having sex with her (ewww). Later, she eats the family's cat and graduates up to eating people---and yet he cannot let her go. You assume she must have some weird psychic hold on him...or he's just an idiot who likes having sex with disgusting monster.All in all, this is a very, very nasty show. While I loved the first episode I watched of the series with George Wendt, this one was hard to love and really was disgusting. I also assume most folks simply wouldn't watch this due to it being so incredibly explicit and gross. A hard episode to love. Also, as I watched this with my wife, she accurately predicted how the show would end after only about five minutes into it! By the way, Weber (of "Wings" fame) also wrote this episode. And, like other show in the series, it's directed by a famous director--in this case, Dario Argento of Italian horror film fame.

I have had trouble watching this one all the way through, but somehow over the years I have finally managed to see the thing in its entirety. A truly sick and disturbing outing by Argento, about an incredibly sexy mute woman (the best kind, for most guys) with a killer face, and I do mean "killer." She just can't stop eating people. A cop befriends her and eventually holes up with her in a remote cabin, leaving behind his family. Nothing he does can stop her from eating people, however. The actress who played this bizarre creature is both highly erotic and scary, which I suspect is how Argento has always viewed women, based on his canon. She is simply amazing. Stephen Weber of WINGS fame plays the obsessed cop. A must-see for fans of ghoul flicks. All others, beware.

Jenifer was one of the most twisted little stories I got to enjoy growing up. It was written by Bruce Jones and illustrated by Bernie Wrightson. I think not Argento or Carpenter but Bernie Wrightson and Richard Corben are the real masters of horror. At first I was nicely surprised by Weber who looks very much like the comic-book character and so does Jenifer. The gore also looks true to the comic. The make-up effects are very good. But that's not enough to make it good, even for a TV episode, anyway not for this Bernie Wrightson fan. What starts out promising quickly turned average and boring. The comic had a much more desolate atmosphere and almost totally depended on the two main characters. The extra characters Argento came up with to fill up this episode of masters of horror were too predictable. Uninteresting clichés without depth, and to me Argento didn't do enough to make the awesome drawings of Bernie Wrightson or the creepy atmosphere of Bruce Jones little story come to live in the way that it deserves. I have to see a real good adoption yet of the old Wrightson styled black and white horror comics. To me they stand by themselves and miles above mediocre, mainstream television productions such as this that are directed by people who had their peaks in cinema over twenty years ago and are now still merely making money of the horror genre without coming up with any good new ideas anymore. Yesterdays rebels are indeed todays sellouts. I'd advice people to read the old short Wrightson comics from the early seventies any time over this. They are worth it. Try reading Jenifer before you watch this. Or better : Just read the comic and skip this.

Jenifer (2005) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Dario Argento's entry into the Masters of Horror series is one of the best I've seen and like the John carpenter episode, this provides the director with his strongest work in quite some time. A policeman (Steven Weber) saved a beautiful woman (Carrie Anne Fleming) with a deformed face from being killed and slowly finds himself becoming obsessed with her, which turns his life upside down. Argento's director is right on the mark for this rather bizarre and sometimes sickening film. It's basically a very strange love story and Argento captures this perfectly with some nice humor as well as some disgusting violence and gore. The most shocking thing is the extremely graphic sexual nature of the film, which asks the question if a guy could be "turned on" by a woman like this and we see the answer is graphic detail. This weird sexuality is something we haven't seen in horror movies since the late 70's (I'm talking the late 70's Euro scene).