Okay, I must admit that this episode of "Masters of Horror" has a really dumb premise. But I thought it might be funny or quirky...not just incredibly dumb throughout. The premise is that George Washington (yes, THAT George Washington) was a homicidal maniac who ate children...and his nutty followers are alive and well in 2007. But the dumb plot isn't really the problem--it's the bad acting, directing and writing that sink this one. I just can't understand how this was handled this poorly. For example, a 10 year-old is eating ice cream--and it's dribbling down her hand. What child eats this way who is older than 3 or 4? The reactions of the people are also very dumb--and they just don't act like folks who aren't brain-damaged. Even the smallest thing is way, way overdone and the show has zero subtlety...absolutely none. Sloppy and clearly a sign that this series was in decline...but at least I liked the portrait of Washington at the end of the show. By the way, my daughter told me I should have expected this to be pretty dumb based on the plot. Well, to some extent that's true, but the writing and acting were really, really bad! And the way the Chinese guy is portrayed at the end....ugghh!

When I criticized parody of A.E.Poe I really had no idea they actually decided to insult other historic figures. I would never ever believe they would actually do that. But they did that. They seriously did that in the most stupid manner I have ever seen. I really really want you not to waste 60 minutes of your life on this trash so to sum up: The first president was a cannibal. There is a plot of elderly role playing people who try to cover this fact while eating some other people. There is stupid family which accidentally discovers this fact in a hidden letter. This family decides for reasons unknown to stay in the house where they can be attacked by this cover-up group. The father fortunately knows some professor of history who is stupid enough to travel to that particular house to warn the residents so he may be in danger as well. Fortunately he knows some FBI agents who decide to suppress the truth using some handy Heckler&Koch machine guns. In the end the Washington is deleted from banknotes and he is replaced by G.W.Bush.Who invented such crappy, bizarre and would-be "political" plot? Michael Moore? I just cannot believe this crap has been aired whereas way better "Imprint" has been canceled. There is a ton of great horror stories so I really do not understand why they took such pity story and filmed it in a very bad way. It is probably the worst part of the entire series.

+I agree with the reviewer who made that comment that this movie could have been written by a 5th grader. Bad acting, bad storytelling, and completely unbelievable decisions by the main characters would all be acceptable if the movie had campy humor, but there was none. No witty dialogue, no creative death scenes, not even a token hottie in a bikini. The only attempt at humor was in the tacked on ending which tried way too hard.Example of how bad this movie was:I leaving a beating human heart in the house wasn't enough to convince the family that they should probably leave, the Washingtonians show up at the door with weapons and outright threaten to kill the family and eat them. Fortunately for the family, the police in that town respond quick and the Washingtonians run away when they hear sirens saying that they'll be back.Now I can accept victims making bad choices in the spur of the moment while running for their lives, but the family has an entire day to figure out what they should do. For no apparent reason, they decide to stay put without at least buying a gun or even a baseball bat. Then they act surprised when the Washingtonians come back like they said they would.If they had booby trapped the house or at least put up some kind of fight, it might have been fun, but a couple of Washingtonians knocking out the father in 1 hit shows that they weren't even trying.I wonder what people who liked this movie would consider a bad movie. The only thing this movie had going for it was an interesting premise that was poorly executed in every way.

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.