Masters of Horror: Dario Argento: Pelts-2006

Director Dario Argento

Starring Meat Loaf

Scott’s Review #600

Reviewed January 10, 2017

Grade: C+

For those unfamiliar with Masters of Horror, this was a spectacular horror series that aired during the mid-2000s, featuring vignettes of superlative horror chapters.

Famed Italian horror maestro Dario Argento directed two such chapters during the series’ run.

Pelts is an okay story, but unspectacular, and only for die-hard Argento fans.

The chapter is quite gory and extreme (this is the main positive) and stars Meat Loaf (the singer) and John Saxon (from Nightmare on Elm Street 1984, and Black Christmas, 1974).

The story centers around a fur trader named Jake Feldman, who encounters a fellow fur trader offering raccoon skin.

Eager to make money and impress a stripper, Jake leaps at the chance, with dire results.

This episode of Masters of Horror is not for the squeamish. If you are a fan of raccoons, this might be up your alley.

My slight disappointment in this chapter merely comes from my utter love for some of the other chapters, and this one pales in comparison.