I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

now this is one of the best masters of horror episodes , think it is on the same line as cigarette burns and incident on and off a mountain road. They all follow behind the number 1 episode pick me up, but even so this was by far the creepiest one of all i got pretty scared when i first saw the creature its movements the face , everything about it is shockingly creepy.and i was not expecting to jump as many times as i did , but felt that they should have shown more of the creature and played out the romance between Tara and johnny , but all is fair , great horror flick i have seen better but I have seen a lot worse.

The virgin teenager Tara (Lindsey Pulsipher) is outcast in school and neglected by her mother. While riding her bike back home from school, she is drugged, kidnapped and brought to an isolated mansion by the insane pianist Anton (William Samples). His cellist wife Judith (Lori Petty) lures Tara to obtain personal information, and then they lock her in the basement where she meets their son Johnny (Jesse Haddock) trying to commit suicide. Tara discovers that the creepy couple lost their son drowned in a lake twelve years ago, and have made a pact with a demon to bring him back to life. The price would be the sacrifice of twelve teenagers, and Tara is the last one."The Fair Haired Child" is another good episode of "Masters of Horror". The story is original, with a surprising twist in the end and very well acted and directed. Lori Petty is unrecognizable, with a creepy appearance of a deranged woman and the unknown and gorgeous Lindsey Pulsipher recalled me Emilie de Ravin, the Claire Littleton of "Lost". My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Pacto com o Demônio" ("Pact with the Demon")

C'mon people, i really don¡t understand why some of you says that this is a good movie. Trust me, i have seen a lot of horror movies, and this is one of the worst, not the WORST (beacause "The Brink" wons that tittle years ago) but this is on my top 10 of bad-bad horror movies of all the time. Bad Effects. Bad History. No blood. No gore. No Horror.and ... this is a horror movie right?So, please people. Don't See this movie. Its Crap, like a millions other. Just don't waste your time in this, save your money, or whatever.

Calling William Malone a "Master Of Horror" is quite an overestimation since he is probably not a bad director, but is work is far away from being essential Horror. "Creature" (1985) is certainly no genre classic, and his 1999 "House On Haunted Hill", was an OK remake due to a very good performance by Geoffrey Rush, but it was nowhere near the eeriness and brilliance of William Castle's original masterpiece starring the great Vincent Price. Malone's "Masters Of Horror" episode, "The Fair Haired Child", however, is immensely creepy and atmospheric, and definitely increases Malone's worth as a director. The performances are entirely very good, the episode has a great atmosphere and the classical score fits in perfectly. I personally didn't quite find it as suspenseful as some of the other episodes I've seen so far. I've become a big fan of the "Masters Of Horror" series, and I have to say that the quality of the episodes differs immensely. While there are some episodes that I found brilliant, such as Takashi Miike's "Imprint" (the absolute greatest episode of the entire series), Dario Argento's "Pelts", John Carpenter's "Cigarette Burns" or Peter Medak's "The Washingtonians", some other episodes were disappointing, such as Mick Garris' "Chocolate" or Tobe Hooper's "Dance Of The Dead". "The Fair Haired Child" fortunately belongs to the first category as one of the best episodes of the first season. Warning! Possible Minor Spoilers! - Teenage Tara (Lindsay Pulsipher), an outsider at her high school, is kidnapped and brought to a mansion in the middle of nowhere by a creepy couple, Anton (William Samples) and Judith (Lori Petty). The two have lost their 15 year old son in an accident 12 years ago, and made a pact with a mysterious and evil deity, to sacrifice teenagers in order to bring their own son back to life...Lindsay Pulsipher delivers a great performance in the lead, and so do William Samples and 'Tank Girl' Lori Petty in their roles of the parents who are willing to do anything to get their son back to life. The atmosphere is quite creepy, and, as mentioned above, the score fits in really well. "The Fair Haired Child" has all the ingredients a great MoH episode needs. It is immensely creepy, suspenseful from the beginning, well-acted and macabre. And What else could a Horror fan ask for? 8/10