By Geno McGahee
I about halfway through the MASTERS OF HORROR collection and I am very impressed thus far, but I was bound to find a mediocre one eventually. CHOCOLATE is a film by Mick Garris, the mind behind the 1993 classic HOCUS POCUS, and he has kept that same standard with this one. In other words, it’s not very good.
Jamie (Henry Thomas) works at a lab developing fake flavors for food. His wife and son are now separated from him and he is lonely and miserable. He meets a girl at the grocery store and they go back to his place and eat junk food and have sex. When he wakes up, he begins seeing a man on top of him, and he’s having sex with him. Jamie has found his way into the body of a woman that is having sex and he loves it. He falls in love with this woman.
After the woman from the grocery store runs away from him and his family gets mad at him, he tracks down the girl from his visions. Catherine (Lucie Laurier) has killed the man that had sex with her (and Jamie) and she is very concerned about being caught. When Jamie comes into her life, she panics because he knows too much, but then she takes him into her life and into her apartment.
The meeting at the apartment turns from romantic to violent as Catherine attacks Jamie and ends with a gunshot and Catherine dead on the floor, and that was the story. CHOCOLATE is all over the place. There were several storylines happening until it is finally decided that the Catherine tale will be the way it goes and even then, it doesn’t end well.
Rating: 4/10
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