Another on my list of honorable mentions, I really like the premise of the episode which is like the film "Event Horizon" and this episode was years before that film. But also mixes with 80's horror film "Blood Diner".
Dr. Fink as usual is up to one of his kooky and creepy schemes, he has gone into the Restaurant business, we see that he is mainly famous for a soup he concocts. But this isn't an ordinary soup as we discover the prime ingredient for it, which is fear. Fink has some sort of mystical ideal that shows a person's fear to them and by doing this it feeds off it and extracts a liquid substance which is the soup itself. So, each customer is really eating another person's fear, which I'll admit is trippy and a peculiar kind of Canabalism. I really like the fear sequences which are suspenseful because you're not sure whether the images their seeing are really going to hurt them or not.
However, what to me really makes this episode are the two leads I really like. It's suppringly to see Neve Campbell in this episode, this was her debut. Good start and ironic considering the horror film she'd be most famous for "Scream". But it was great seeing her in this, as she plays the main protagonist's friend/would be girlfriend whom is supportive and has a certain amount of spunk to her.
The main protagonist Reed is solid as he is sympathetic as we see he is suffering Post Traumatic Stress as he has suffered abuse from his late uncle both psychologically and possibly physically. This guy is a bit of a loner as he doesn't let a lot of people get close to him which is understandable due to what he's been though. He's a person that really is trying to make a life for himself away from his past. This just even more makes us want the protagonist to win, hoping he'll find a way to overcome whatever eats away at him, so he can get the life he deserves.
The main theme is about fear and facing it. By its nature fear are really illusions that we create from our minds, they only seem and feel real when we let ourselves believe it giving the illusions power over us. Only when we confront and face it, the illusion shatters revealing the truth, there is nothing which is the true essence of fear.
Rating: 4 stars
Dr. Fink as usual is up to one of his kooky and creepy schemes, he has gone into the Restaurant business, we see that he is mainly famous for a soup he concocts. But this isn't an ordinary soup as we discover the prime ingredient for it, which is fear. Fink has some sort of mystical ideal that shows a person's fear to them and by doing this it feeds off it and extracts a liquid substance which is the soup itself. So, each customer is really eating another person's fear, which I'll admit is trippy and a peculiar kind of Canabalism. I really like the fear sequences which are suspenseful because you're not sure whether the images their seeing are really going to hurt them or not.
However, what to me really makes this episode are the two leads I really like. It's suppringly to see Neve Campbell in this episode, this was her debut. Good start and ironic considering the horror film she'd be most famous for "Scream". But it was great seeing her in this, as she plays the main protagonist's friend/would be girlfriend whom is supportive and has a certain amount of spunk to her.
The main protagonist Reed is solid as he is sympathetic as we see he is suffering Post Traumatic Stress as he has suffered abuse from his late uncle both psychologically and possibly physically. This guy is a bit of a loner as he doesn't let a lot of people get close to him which is understandable due to what he's been though. He's a person that really is trying to make a life for himself away from his past. This just even more makes us want the protagonist to win, hoping he'll find a way to overcome whatever eats away at him, so he can get the life he deserves.
The main theme is about fear and facing it. By its nature fear are really illusions that we create from our minds, they only seem and feel real when we let ourselves believe it giving the illusions power over us. Only when we confront and face it, the illusion shatters revealing the truth, there is nothing which is the true essence of fear.
Rating: 4 stars
