Nice effects though.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This must be the episode with the most mixed emotions. For some the question is how it was possible to add a famous person into such a story. But hey, we are at this writing 6 years later and just look what happened, Abraham Lincoln was in trouble with vampires, and in another flick he had to fight zombies. Snow White came in trouble with monsters and I can go on and on.Seeing it now I rather enjoyed it but it wasn't one of the best episodes. The reason lays in the fact that the Washingtonians looked a bit ridiculous. The story itself was, again, rather simple. A man finds a letter behind a painting of George with supposedly was written by George stating that he was a cannibal. Once people from the town the man and his family just moved in do know he got the letter in comes the Washingtonians to get back the letter so history remains the same. But I had a few laughters here and there, when at the diner suddenly the family are looking at the people surrounding them eating spare ribs, but it looked like they were all eating people. And when they are talking to the 10 year old daughter they also looked like she was eatable. And the end surely delivers an inside joke with the new dollar bill.Maybe if I had seen it in 2007 I would have hate it too but nowadays things are changed and it was okay but not above average due the silly looks of the Washingtonians. They just looked so cheap.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 1/5

I enjoyed this entry into the innovative anthology series Masters of Horror. Itsure does have flaws, which have been gone into with great deal and relish I may add, but the story of a secret concerning our Founding Father George Washington purporting him, his family, and other important figures to be a cannibalistic cult had me in stitches and horror throughout much of this episode. Washington's legacy is at stake here as a new family inherit the house of a now-deceased relative who had belonged to that cult. Soon, real evidence is found and threats by men in powdered wigs are brought to the house by pounding on doors and windows. Director Peter Medak, no stranger to the world of the strange - aftreall he directed The Ruling Class with Peter O'Toole, gives us quite a bit to digest in an hour. much of it is incoherent and makes, well, not so much sense. Nonetheless, the episode zips by and is entertaining if for no other reason then your jaw will be slightly dropped by the whole story of George Washington having eaten little girls. The scene where the Washingtonians are convening is eerie, horrific, oddly amusing, and way over-the-top. Even creepier are some of the actors playing the elderly people of this area. The acting was decent given the bizarre subject matter. The episode certainly has many flaws, most of them in the script. But I enjoyed this from the very first minute to the very last. No lie.

"The Washingtonians" was a pretty funny episode. It's an hilarious concept, though I admit that there were a few moments when I thought what I was seeing on the screen had to be somehow blasphemous.Nevertheless, I found it funny and think it's great that such taboos can be explored, though I pray the average viewer is smart enough to slough off the ridiculous notion that Washington was a cannibal. With the amount of, and overall zaniness of conspiracy theories today, this one could be off to the races.That small bit of social commentary aside, the film has a bit of gore, a funny concept, few scares, and a lot of camp.The concept alone makes it worth watching if you're bored. From a critical standpoint, the "concept" itself seems to straddle an objective line, poking fun at both lame conspiracy theories and our pre-conceived idolization of certain historical figures.Sadly, it almost seems as if the director took a fine piece of complex satire and dumbed it down to a Michael Moore film, to convey that "America sucks. Oh yeah, George Bush, too."

If there is one thing that freaks me out, even at the age of 28, it's southern old people! I felt shot back to being a small child, watching Poltergeist 2 with Jullian Beck and Zelda Rubeinstien. The lawyer is as close as I have come to feeling that creeped out, since the 80's. I got over Freddy, and Jason, still alittle fear when a Halloween sequel pops up, but to this day, the vision of Jullian Beck playing Kane still spooks me out, and I must do a scan of the room I am in! The Washingtonians seems to have that effect on me, and it really took me back to that time. The Masters of Horror series has some real gems, and this episode has left that impression on me.