Frank Spivey is a cop with a family....a nice-looking wife and your typical teen-aged son, life is pretty good. That all changes one day while sitting in the car eating lunch with his partner. They hear a scream and follow the screams to find a man standing over a woman with a hatchet, fully intent on separating her head from her body. Frank yells for the man to stop, but is eventually forced to kill the man, in order to save the woman's life. The woman is, Jenifer (Fleming) and while she possess a beautiful body, her face is horrible disfigured. Nobody seems to know anything about Jenifer and Jenifer is unable to communicate, only able to give short grunts and screams at any attempts to communicate. The only way Jenifer appears to be able to communicate is of the physical variety and it's obvious some have been able to look past her face and concentrate on her body, as the woman is well-versed in carnal action. With nobody to claim Jenifer, she's whisked off to a mental asylum and for some odd reason, Frank feels a connection and a sort of responsibility to Jenifer. Without discussing Jenifer with his wife or son, Frank goes to the asylum and brings Jenifer home to stay with the family. Needless to say, Frank's wife is less-than-pleased with this and even less happy when they discover that Jenifer has eaten the family pet cat! Frank's wife and kid pack up and leave him, but Frank seems to have no problems getting past this, as Jenifer has become an obsession of his and even more alarming to Frank is, he's very physically attracted to Jenifer. Doesn't take long before Frank realizes that Jenifer is wild and while she may seem pathetic and helpless, she's hell-bent to have things her way and that very soon becomes a major problem in Frank's life. 

Jenifer is presented in anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) and looks good to this viewer. With a film or episode still relatively new, I;d expect it to be free of print damage and that's definitely the case, here. Once again, the audio options are limited with an English-only language track in Dolby Digital 5.1 or Dolby Surround 2.0 and there are no subtitle options, either. Bonus features are plenty and include:

 Wow! This is a great entry in the Masters of Horror series and may be one of my personal favorites from what I've seen of the series. Argento and Weber both state that this episode is based on a comic book story written by Bernie Wrightson and Weber adapted the story for this episode and having never read this story, all I can say is if Weber followed the story as it appears in the bonus feature comments that he did, that must have been one great story! This is an outstanding episode and seems to have it all......sex, gore and a great little story. If you do watch the bonus features, then I highly recommend checking out the featurette; So Hideous My Love, Argento explains how he came on board and discusses two deleted scenes, complete with the scenes being shown. I love how Argento explained the two scenes and why he filmed them and the fact that should they ever be inserted in a re-release, he won't complain. I don't have this disc in my collection, but I hope to remedy that in the very near future. If you haven't seen any of the Masters of Horror series, this might be the one episode to cut your teeth on.....it's that good, in my own humble opinion.

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