It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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

I didn't have high hopes going into this, it seemed like the typical "helpless woman being chased by a crazed inbred in the woods" but I was pleasantly surprised. That basically is the premise, Ellen is in a minor car wreck and left stranded on an empty wooded highway at night when she becomes prey to the very large "Moonface". This film has an interesting difference though, Ellen is trained in survival tactics from her intense husband. It was nice to actually see a woman fight back for once. "Incident" was the perfect length for it's story line. There was a lot of tension but it wasn't dragged out and overplayed. I highly recommend this for fans of the horror genre who have an hour to spare.

"Phantasm" and "The Beastmaster" director Don Coscarelli adapts genre author Joe R. Lansdale's short story as a somewhat uninspired premiere episode for Mick Garris's exciting new series that demonstrates little promise for the show and none of the genius the writer and director would develop with their later collaboration on "Bubba Ho-Tep".Bree Turner makes for a cute enough scream queen but fails to generate any sexual chemistry with survival freak Ethan Embry whilst long-term director favourite Angus Scrimm proves a misplaced annoyance and John D. Santis is far too cartoonesque to generate any real fear as the dreadfully monikered Moonface.The master employs the incredibly overly familiar set-up of an accident on lonely mountain road to lead into a run-of-the-mill slasher in the woods story that quickly degenerates into splat pack style gore soaked torture porn and sadly fails to take its own advice to do the unexpected.It comes in through your eyes.

The first entry in this popular series isn't especially remarkable – being too derivative of THE Texas CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974), for one thing – if still quite watchable (largely thanks to a good leading performance by Bree Turner).A woman driving her car on a mountain road by night is involved in a traffic accident; noticing a figure in the vicinity, she thinks it may be hurt and offers aid – this, however, turns out to be a monstrous-looking homicidal maniac! As she's pursued deep into the woods by him, the woman thinks back (shown in intermittent flashes) on her troubled relationship with a cynical and patronizing husband fixated on survival tactics. Ironically, this rigorous training at his hands turns out to be very useful to her during the present arduous situation – since the heroine surprises her hulking assailant by demonstrating an ability to defend herself and even lay traps for him (though one actually immobilizes the female driver of the car she had run into, which obviously dooms her!).However, the woman is still captured and taken to the killer's underground lair – which is filled with the usual glut of rotting corpses (a number of whom have even been crucified and are proudly displayed in the front entrance). Therein, she also meets another 'prisoner' – an old man who, having gone mad in the interim, hinders more than helps the heroine's attempts to get free of her own shackles! Eventually, she manages to overcome the maniac and coolly executes him; the denouement, however, is something of a mixed bag – coming up with one twist too many (the revelation concerning the ultimate fate of Turner's husband at least is a nice touch, albeit still ripping off Mario Bava's superb poliziottesco RABID DOGS [1974]).

Spunky young Ellen (a strong and appealing performance by the lovely Bree Turner) finds herself stranded on a remote rural mountain road. She runs afoul of brutal murderous backwoods albino mutant Moonface (an impressively vigorous portrayal by the hulking John De Santis), a truly nasty and scary piece of ferocious work who drills out his victims' eyes and turns them into grotesque human scarecrows. Ellen has to use all the basic survival skills she learned from her wacko macho husband Bruce (gruffly essayed by Ethan Embry) in order to persevere through this grueling ordeal. Director/co-writer Don Coscarelli, adapting a short story by the great Joe R. Lansdale, relates this tight and involving yarn at a brisk and unrelenting headlong pace, delivering an ample amount of jolts and thrills as the story progresses towards its genuinely chilling and startling surprise conclusion. Jon Joffin's strikingly beautiful cinematography offers several memorably eerie visuals (the image of Moonface leaping over a railing is particularly stunning and unforgettable). Chris Stone's rattling, stirring score further enhances the nail-biting tension. The make-up f/x are every bit as hideous and gruesome as they ought to be. Angus Scrimm contributes a delightfully wacky turn as nutty old coot Buddy. Best of all, the story articulates a potent and provocative message about the spiritual price one must pay to be a survivor. A worthy entry in the series.