While I personally would have never designated Mimi Rogers as a stunner even in her younger days like in this, she's still very good in her role and really gives it her all as an aging model who can't get jobs anymore and who lives with a much younger and prettier roommate who also happens to work as a model. After losing on starring in a laughably bad advert for a brand of perfume with a ridiculous name that no one in their right mind would ever seriously buy except in Tales From the Crypt land, she becomes a little crazy with jealousy and decides to steal the spot in the mysterious beauty pageant herself by giving her unwitting roommate a little something to knock her out for a while, only she gives her a little too much and accidentally murders her! Soon after the increasingly ruthless Helen becomes hellbent on winning the contest no matter what...never suspecting the deadly danger that's at work behind the sinister pageant until it's too late and she is grotesquely displayed as a macabre ghoulish tribute to "inner beauty" and splayed and put on display like a freakish human butterfly! I like how the tone suddenly becomes a lot more threatening near the end when she's in the morgue-like room being aggressively checked over by the creepy ripped makeup artist before being delivered her doom! It's a genuinely scary moment in an otherwise fairly goofy episode and that's the real ending for me, the very final slamming of the metal door. I don't really care for the following sequence all that much though, I find the whole campy presentation and singing of the host comes off a bit overly bizarre and tacky.. For some it makes the whole episode, but it just never really worked that much for me. I find the overall thing to be a little flat and wanting somewhere, it's a noticeable rehash of the superior season three episode "Top Billing", except that the main character is a woman, it's modeling instead of acting, and the killers aren't insane, which score one for this episode is actually that bit more scarier! I love how it features two actors from two awesome horror movie franchises, the lovely Jennifer Rubin who played Taryn in Dream Warriors, and a very quick cameo from Anders Hove who played the craven vampire Radu in the Subspecies series of movies, pretty cool! I like how when you think about the story it's so the classic E.C. Grim dark karma at work in how Helen never actually needed to do anything to her poor innocent young roommate, if she'd have just accepted her defeat gracefully the situation would have resolved itself and she'd have gotten to star in the stupid Ballbuster perfume commercial! Good and entertaining but no series' gem to me, it's mainly fun for its B-movie style murderous woman weirdness! X