First episode from the Masters of Horror series which saw a bunch of famous genre filmmakers tackle various works from famous genre writers to middling success. Here, Don Coscarelli of Phantasm fame works on a short story from Joe R. Lansdale and it comes off just as average as the inspiration. Listen, thanks to The Nightrunners, Lansdale will always be a national treasure but after creating something as quintessential as Nightrunners (and, in effect, the God of the Razor mythology), it’s a little difficult to hold anything else in comparison. Incident could probably be considered an excellent outing if it came from any other author. All I’m saying is, this is probably my fault in how I feel about this one. A woman is on the run from a recent awfulness (cue Ethan Embry as her abusive survivalist husband flashbacks) and ends up hitting a haphazardly parked car on a lonely stretch of mountain road. She attempts to find some help after waking from unconsciousness but comes across a giant backwoods maniac by the name of Moonface. The rest is cat-and-mouse shenanigans with a cameo from Angus Scrimm. Thanks to the things she’s learned in her past, Ellen is a bit tougher prey than ol’ ugly Moonface is used to but he’s still efficient at getting a kill. Bree Turner is at least good at her job and cute enough to keep rooting for (especially when she briefly gets to beat the shit out of a much larger human) but it’s still something we’ve already seen thousands of times and an odd choice as an introduction to a series.
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