Season 2, Episode 4
"Parlor Floor Front"
Jesus. This episode just got darker and darker. A young upstart couple rents out the parlor floor front to an elderly janitor and his sister. While remodeling they complain about him getting away with extremely low rent. They negotiate a deal for him to help the refurnish to take some of the cost off. While helping, he knocks a vase over, which breaks. The girl wants him to pay in full, but the husband says he'll pay in half. In retaliation for being wronged, the old man uses his voodoo to put a curse on them. Yeah. A string of unfortunate incidents occur, and the woman loses her child. She begs for the husband to refund the old man in full to call off the curse, but he refuses. She herself tells the old man all the horrible things that happened because of his curse and gives him her wedding ring to pay him. Horrified by his actions, the old man freaking kills himself. This causes the couple to doubt themselves, when the woman comes out with a startling revelation....there was no curse. She caused the unfortunate events, and lied about the child, all to spite the old man. The man is disgusted, and leaves her, and that night she steals her ring back. Theeennnnn comes the truly frightening part. While sleeping, the corpse of the old man rises and comes back for the ring she gave him.
Good: This episode is good because it very quickly lets you know things are unraveling FAST. As always, the acting is good, and the plot interesting. And the old mans corpse is extremely creepy. You don't actually SEE him, but seeing his tall, lumbering silhouette in the door as his deep, low voice hisses, "Give me back my ring." is creepy as all hell. Follow that with a still shot of the woman, dead and sprawled out across the bed, and it makes for one creepy-ass episode.
Bad: I honestly feel like maybe they couldve used slightly lighter misfortunes, because things like losing a child is really dark, and a tad inappropriate for this episode.
Pretty good episode, first one I think I've seen that really gave me the chills
Grade: 8/10
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