Family (Masters of Horror)

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2nd episode of the 2nd season of Masters of Horror

"Family"

Masters of Horror episode

DVD cover for "Family"

Episode no.| Season 2
Episode 2
Directed by| John Landis
Written by| Brent Hanley
Featured music| Peter Bernstein
Production code| 202
Original air date| November 3, 2006 (2006-11-03)
Guest appearances

* Meredith Monroe
* Matt Keeslar
* George Wendt

Episode chronology
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"The V Word"

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"Family" is the second episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on November 3, 2006. The DVD was released on April 17, 2007. It is the fifteenth episode and the sixteenth episode to be released on DVD.

## Plot[edit]

A young married couple, Celia (Meredith Monroe) and David (Matt Keeslar), move into a new home and meet their seemingly venerable neighbor Harold (George Wendt). Harold is in fact a psychotic serial killer who has created a family using the skeletons of his former victims, which he has kidnapped and murdered throughout the years.

His family consists of a wife and a daughter, and later a father and a mother, all of whom Harold seems to believe are fully alive. He dresses them in clothing, moves them around the house, and talks with them as if they can talk back. He also hallucinates that a teenage girl was asking him to kill her so his "daughter" could have a sister, and at dinner, he hears Celia express a desire to have rough sex right there on the table. There is also the hint that he replaces family members when he finds a new victim.

Celia and David, however, have a secret of their own: years ago, Harold killed their daughter, and they have been tracking him down ever since. They lure him into a trap and exact their revenge. David says they can torture him 10 to 14 more days, and Harold's frightened reaction appears behind the end credits.

## Music[edit]

The gospel music that plays in the intro is "Jesus Gave Me Water" and "Friends, Let Me Tell You About Jesus", sung by The Dixieaires.

## External links[edit]

* "Family" at IMDb
* Podcasters Of Horror on The Super Network

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Masters of Horror

Season 1|

* "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road"
* "H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House"
* "Dance of the Dead"
* "Jenifer"
* "Chocolate"
* "Homecoming"
* "Deer Woman"
* "Cigarette Burns"
* "Fair-Haired Child"
* "Sick Girl"
* "Pick Me Up"
* "Haeckel's Tale"
* "Imprint"

Season 2|

* "The Damned Thing"
* "Family"
* "The V Word"
* "Sounds Like"
* "Pro-Life"
* "Pelts"
* "The Screwfly Solution"
* "Valerie on the Stairs"
* "Right to Die"
* "We All Scream for Ice Cream"
* "The Black Cat"
* "The Washingtonians"
* "Dream Cruise"

Related|

| Fear Itself|

* "The Sacrifice"
* "Spooked"
* "Family Man"
* "In Sickness and in Health"
* "Eater"
* "New Year's Day"
* "Community"
* "Skin & Bones"

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Masters of Science Fiction|

* "A Clean Escape"
* "Jerry Was a Man"
* "The Discarded"
* "Little Brother"

Soundtrack|

* "Enjoy the Silence"
* "Nervous Breakdown"
* "We Are One"
* "Beast and the Harlot" (live version)

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John Landis

Feature films|

* Schlock (1973)
* The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
* National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
* The Blues Brothers (1980)
* An American Werewolf in London (1981)
* Trading Places (1983)
* Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
* Into the Night (1985)
* Spies Like Us (1985)
* Three Amigos (1986)
* Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
* Coming to America (1988)
* Oscar (1991)
* Innocent Blood (1992)
* Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
* The Stupids (1996)
* Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
* Susan's Plan (1998)
* Burke & Hare (2010)

Documentaries|

* Coming Soon (1982)
* Slasher (2004)
* Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007)

Music videos|

* "Thriller" (1983)
* "B.B. King: Into the Night" (1985)
* "Spies Like Us" (1985)
* "Black or White" (1991)

Television|

* Dream On (1990–1996)
* "Deer Woman" (2005)
* "Family" (2006)
* "American Duos" (2007)

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