Review of Pick Me Up

Masters of Horror: Pick Me Up (2006)
Season 1, Episode 11
8/10
Michael Moriarty carries this episode
19 June 2013
Ahaaa, this is a special entry in the Masters Of Horrors series. There's almost no blood to spot and still it's pure horror made only by characterisation and especially done by Michael Moriarty who plays the trucker. The way he acted levitates this episode to a higher level.

Even as the story is simple and the ending is predictable I still enjoyed it. When a bus breaks down on a highway two serial killers are trying to help them but they don't know that they are both serial killers. It's a game of hunting down and being hunted until the end. Sure I said that there's almost no blood and that's correct, only the two in the van are really slaughtered, one sliced and the girl being tortured and skinned alive in a motel room. But it surely never becomes gory. This really needs the characters and it really worked out fine.

One of the better episodes.

Gore 1/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 3/5 Story 4/5 Comedy 0/5
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