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    Willard Wildner

    MANAGEMENT

    MANAGEMENT_224_STUDY

    "Fair Haired Child" is the ninth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror.It originally

    aired in North America on January 6, 2006.A 15-year-old outcast named Tara is kidnapped

    by a strange couple and locked in a basement with their son who has a dark secret.== Plot

    ==

    Tara (Lindsay Pulsipher), though a pretty and talented teenage girl, is not liked at her school

    and has no friends.Upon returning home one day, she is kidnapped and drugged.She

    awakens in a mansion in the company of a woman in a nurse's outfit, and attempts to reach

    out to her mother through telephone, but the latter seems strangely unfazed by her

    daughter's plight.After the call disconnects, the "nurse" starts asking personally invasive

    questions, like whether Tara has been baptized or whether she ever had sexual intercourse

    in her life.After Tara notices that she has been taken far away from home and tries to run

    away, the "nurse" (Lori Petty) and her male partner (William Samples) lock her inside the

    basement, where Tara finds a young boy (Jesse Haddock) hanging from a noose, close to

    death.She saves him, and the two form a bond.The boy, Johnny, is sweet and kind but cannot

    talk; he has to communicate by writing in the dust.With Johnny's assistance, Tara uncovers

    cryptic warnings on the walls, such as "Beware the Fair-Haired Child!"The two discover a

    room with numerous backpacks and a bloody bathtub, showing that they are not the first

    victims.Johnny begins to undergo a transformation from a normal boy into a hideous

    demonic creature, the "Fair-Haired Child" (Walter Phelan).Frightened, Tara hides from the

    creature until it turns back into Johnny.It is revealed that twelve years ago, Johnny died by
    drowning on his fifteenth birthday in a pond near the mansion.Desperate over the loss of

    their son, Johnny's parents (the kidnappers) made a deal with a demon, and performed a

    ritual that involves them providing a sacrifice of one virgin teenager (of the same age group

    as Johnny at the time of death) per year until the quota of twelve is reached.Tara is the last

    before Johnny can become human again, but Johnny is torn by his guilt over these sacrifices

    and has also come to care deeply for Tara.As he begins to transform again, instead of

    retreating, Tara embraces him until the "Fair-Haired Child" emerges and kills

    her.Afterwards, Johnny's parents descend into the basement to find Tara's corpse covered

    in an old newspaper, with the words "I forgive you, Johnny," written on it in her blood.The

    couple then happily performs the final stage of the ritual, transforming Johnny back to his

    human self.Later, as they spend some time together, Johnny speaks for the first time,

    informing his parents that, in retaliation for Tara's death, he has struck a new deal with the

    demon: Instead of needing twelve souls to perform a resurrection, he has managed to

    narrow it down to two, and they don't have to be virgin teenagers.As Johnny smiles

    sadistically, Tara appears as a "Fair-Haired Child" and kills his parents.Later, Tara, alive and

    well, awakes inside the mansion with a bandage on her arm.Johnny informs that he injected

    her with a medication to make her temporarily forget what had happened and soon

    afterwards, she will regain her past memory, including "some not pretty things".The two

    introduce themselves anew as he takes her for a stroll in the mansion's backyard towards

    the pond, walking past the graves of Johnny's parents in the garden.== Reception ==

    In Fervid Filmmaking, author Mike Watt wrote that "Fair-Haired Child" had a "surreal

    creature design a genuine chill-factor" that made it "amazingly creepy" despite its

    "convoluted" plot.== References ==


    == External links ==

    "Fair-Haired Child" at IMDb

    Review for Fair-Haired Child at Dread Central

    Review for Fair-Haired Child at Slant Magazine

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