Pelts (2006)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2006
	Director: Dario Argento (Profondo Rosso, Suspiria, Dracula 3D)
	Actors: Meat Loaf (Fight Club), Link Baker, Emilio Salituro, Ellen Ewusie
	Country: USA
	Genre: Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 23.08.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: A sleazy, desperate fur trader who haunts a local strip club, gets his hands on some priceless raccoon furs that might be more than just priceless but cursed.
Review: Pelts is actually a 1-hour episode of the TV-series Masters of Horror that lasted two seasons around 2006. The concept was simple: Classical directors of the horror genre were selected and given 1 million dollars and total freedom to produce each episode. And some results are pretty good, actually much better that many full-length features. To this date, the episodes were released in Blu-ray only in Germany, in the Black Edition, which quality is quite good. Now about the movie itself: the story and filming are quite standard, which explains why the movie is good contrarily to all the other movies of Argento of that period. But this is also why it doesn't reach the heights of the masterpieces of this director from the 70's. Some scenes are delightful as they bear his mark: deep red colors and saturated lights. The scene when the Meat Loaf character (excellent performance) first goes to the strip club is particularly good-looking. Horror scenes show up every 10 minutes and are well-done. Maybe in the Top 5 Masters of Horror (together with Jenifer, Deer Woman and Sick Girl).
Rating: 6 /10