A young girl has been abducted and locked in a cellar with a strange young boy. As time passes, the girl soon learns that they are not alone in the cellar as something else is about to enter their lives. Are they both about to be victims or is there something even more sinister about to occur? Is it good or evil? You be the judge of the deal made with the fair haired child.

Masters of Horror: The Fair Haired Child is a bizarre little tale that takes a dark look at love and loss through the eyes of the occult, sad part is there a little cataract forming on the eye that really blurs the vision on this one.

Maybe it’s me, but I don’t really consider the man who helmed Feardot.com and wrote Universal Soldier: The Return to be a true master of horror, so how William Malone got sandwiched in with John Landis, John Carpenter and Dario Argento is a little beyond me.

Anywho, a teenage girl and boy are locked in a cellar, with some kind of creepy ass creature that appears and chases them around every couple of hours, meanwhile a mysterious couple walk around outside wringing their hands while dressed in all black. A few brief flash backs and you end up with your storyline, but other than the creepy critter, The Fair Haired Child has little going for it. Well it also has the lovely Lori Petty and her piercing blue eyes in it, but that’s really about it.

There is a good head smashing in this one, but not much else in the blood and gore department, so mix that in with a lack luster story and a waste of a beautiful Lori Petty and you get a fairly (HA!) dull entry into the Masters of Horror series.