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has Zombies but its early 1980 zombies
mikeholmes-4801230 January 2016
Warning: Spoilers
i was very excited for this episode when i saw the preview description of it. zombies yay

So the first story was about a kids book writer who decides he wants a kid. So he tells Rourke about his dream perfect kid that he wrote about, as he describes him, this little kiss ass wiener kid appears. Rourke then says its his imagination that made this kid appear as he makes the kid disappear. This led me to ask, if Rourke can do this, why doesn't he imagine the perfect assistant. is this how we got Mr Belevedere in a few episodes? i think so. anyhow,this threatens to break up the couples marriage, she wants this Adam RIch looking kid orphan kid Rourke gives them, the Steve Allen says he was an orphan and it bothers him all this crap. Rourke is like look inwardly and you'll see your fantasy which to me meant, if i go to fantasy island and want to be a baseball player, if i look inwardly , my fantasy will become i realize i suck at baseball and wont do it. its a cruel thing this fantasy island. So Steve Allen is against adopting this kid, the wife is ready to leave him over it, and he is the headliner for the big Fantasy island "lecture". When i was a kid "lectures " were punishments. Anyhow he has a big fan group ready to hear about his lecture on the perfect kid he wrote about. Rourke tells someone "enjoy your lecture" which made me laugh.

So He gives his lecture and the boy and wife show up to watch. he is touched and starts saying his Perfect kid books are crap and he has new theories. The people that came , possibly really paid a lot of money, just to come to fantasy island to hear a stupid lecture about having a perfect kid are irate. The crowd noise was the best as they left in disgust. one lady said "I don't want to hear about it". It was hilarious and reminded me of that Simpsons episode where Lisa made a anti bully spray and was talking at a conference to scientists nad they all did the same and one in a Professor Farnsworth from Futurama was like "lets not listen". any how it was a happy ending and frankly a stupid story line ended up having me caught up in it.

The other story was the one i was excited for. SO some lady is looking for her husband or something and hes there apparently and she goes to this island he is on , though her safety is in jeopardy. this is the best i got, i wasn't really paying attention. So Rourke offers her a boat and driver to get to island. It was some big lanky guy driving , just a film extra with an orange mesh unlabeled trucker baseball cap. I wondered, would he try and hit on her, shes kinda hot. but he just rode his boat. i was like, its dangerous on the island, maybe hell have that urge to be like, "i'll walk you to where you want to go ma am". but he never did. He probably knew she was looking for her husband and was too stupid to realize he could just keep leading her the wrong way. But ironically the way she did meet her husband, without my stupid wondering theories involving a bit character who was no different than the guy who drives the car dropping off guests, is she was walking thought the forest, sensed a zombie and ran into a road and was almost hit by a jeep. A jeep driven by some voodoo powerful man , who is secretly to her, possessing her husband, who was also in the jeep. The voodoo guy is smitten by her. so they all drive and i cant help wondering, i bet that zombie we saw is actually loving and would save them all. i was kinda right but mostly wrong. anyhow she sees Rourke and he gives her salt (rare salt, only available on fantasy island of course) to put on her husbands lips to make him un-zombied. All crap breaks loose, i wasn't rally paying attention and she is going to be sacrificed, dead people rise from their graves in really loose , like that expensive planting soil graves (once again Simpson reference, Moe is like, im dirt but not that good dirt with the white bits in it dirt), when i die, i ll be concreted in and have clay hard dirt, so anyhow she is about to be sacrificed, she tells the voodoo guy to stop, he listens to his sacrifice victim to stop (always bad move) then he bends over leans into her so i was hoping she'd bite his face off, then then she kisses him, they make out, she grabs gun, and after a lot of rewinding and re-watching, he somehow has a zombie in front of him, she shoots zombie multiple times, bullets don't go through zombie to kill guy, she runs, zombie disappears, they all go after her. she pulls voodoo pins out of figures, zombies are now people and charge the bad guy to kill him i guess but they still do it in a zombie like fashion.

So it was a pretty good episode in they surprised me in the story lines a few times and weren't terribly predictable. but in fairness the zombie story line , i was surprised cause i m used to "walking dead" type zombie shows and was expecting that,
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Part Salem's Lot, part Night Stalker, and part Pac-Man
stones788 February 2016
If you've read my earlier reviews, you may or may not know that my preference for this show is the darker segments that appear, but not often enough for my appetite. The better and darker story here, called "Island of Horrors", was almost exactly what I hope for when watching this program. It had elements of horror, especially the eerie bright eyes of the "zombies", which almost looks like any vampire from "Salem's Lot", from 4 years earlier. The familiar faces here include Gayle Hunnicutt, Chris Connelly, Jared Martin, and a cameo from Cassandra Peterson, famously remembered as Elvira. Another cool scene had these things rising from their graves, which was both corny and creepy, but still was enough for me to recommend to a fan looking for the same creep factor as me. Lastly, the "Night Stalker" reference, although I'm not certain if this influenced this segment, was when Mr. Rourke mentions pouring a special type of salt into her man's mouth to cure him. The other story starred a real husband and wife team(Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows)as a couple looking for the "perfect" child, although it was Stuart(Allen)pushing this idea on his wife. An interesting note has this perfect child, played by Sebastian Dungan, actually married to a man in real life. I'm not so sure this is what Stuart had in mind as a "perfect" child. I thought Justin Henry did a decent job of playing "imperfect" Andy, who likes "Pac-Man", but who's not what Stuart really wants, but his wife certainly does. Andy has the Adam Rich haircut thing going on too, plus he's easy to feel pity for. Obviously, I prefer the earlier segment, but the latter one wasn't too shabby either.
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