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Masters of Horror is an American television series created by director Mick Garris for the Showtime cable network. New episodes premiere every Friday at 10pm EST throughout the season. The show follows an anthology format, with each one-hour episode featuring a short film directed by a well-known horror film director. Image File history File links Mastersofhorror. ...
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Episodes
Season 1 | Episode | Director | Title | Overview | | 1 | Don Coscarelli | Incident On and Off a Mountain Road | A young woman with a dark past matches wits with a deformed and sadistic serial killer. | | 2 | Stuart Gordon | H.P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House | A college student discovers a plot by sinister, otherworldly forces to sacrifice his neighbor's infant. | | 3 | Tobe Hooper | Dance of the Dead | A girl living in a post-apocalyptic village encounters reanimated corpses who dance on stage at a sinister bar. | | 4 | Dario Argento | Jenifer | A police officer saves the life of a hideously deformed young woman, only to find himself drawn into a web of murder and self-destruction. | | 5 | Mick Garris | Chocolate | A recently divorced young man begins experiencing the world through the senses of a woman he's never met after eating a sample of chocolate. | | 6 | Joe Dante | Homecoming | Political satire in which the reanimated corpses of soldiers killed in Iraq return in an attempt to sway the presidential election. | | 7 | John Landis | Deer Woman | An ancient creature from Native American mythology wreaks havoc in this horror-comedy. | | 8 | John Carpenter | Cigarette Burns | A man searches for the last surviving print of a rare film that allegedly drove the only audience that ever viewed it into a fit of homicidal frenzy. | | 9 | William Malone | Fair Haired Child | A teenage outcast is kidnapped by a strange couple and locked in a basement with their son, who has a dark secret. | | 10 | Lucky McKee | Sick Girl | An insect enthusiast starts a relationship with another girl, but then also finds herself involved with a rather predatory and aggressive insect. | | 11 | Larry Cohen | Pick Me Up | Two serial killers (one who kills hitchhikers, another who kills anyone who gives him a ride) clash over their latest victim. | | 12 | John McNaughton | Haeckel's Tale | A man on his way to his sick father, seeking shelter in a secluded cabin, becomes involved in a grotesque orgy of the undead. | | 13 | Takashi Miike | Imprint | A 19th century American tourist gets much more than he bargained for while searching for a Japanese prostitute he fell in love with. | Episode 4, "Jenifer", was accidentally made available on-demand to a select audience at the same time as Episode 2, "H.P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House". The episode was cut for graphic violence during its initial television broadcast, and the cut scenes can only be viewed in a featurette separate from the film on the R1 DVD release. Don Coscarelli (born February 17, 1954) is a Libyan-born American film director and screenwriter best known for horror films. ...
Incident On and Off a Mountain Road is the first episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
// Biography Stuart Gordon (born August 11, 1947) in Chicago, Illinois) is a director, writer and producer of films. ...
H.P. Lovecrafts Dreams in the Witch-House is the second episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
Tobe Hooper (born Tobias Paul Hooper on January 25, 1943) is an American television and film director best known for his work in the horror film genre, including Lifeforce, Poltergeist, Toolbox Murders and the cult classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). ...
Dance of the Dead is the third episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
Dario Argento (born September 7, 1940) is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. ...
Jenifer is the fourth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
Mick Garris (December 4, 1951 -) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California. ...
Chocolate is the fifth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
Joe Dante (born November 28, 1946 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American film director and producer of films generally with humorous and scifi content. ...
Homecoming is the sixth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ...
Deer Woman is the seventh episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
For other persons named John Carpenter, see John Carpenter (disambiguation). ...
Cigarette Burns is the eighth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
William Malone is an American filmmaker who directed such films as the 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill. ...
The Fair Haired Child is the ninth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
Lucky McKee in March 2007 Edward Lucky McKee[1] (born November 1, 1975) is an American director, writer, and actor, largely known for the 2002 film May, which has acquired a cult following. ...
The Larry Cohen Collection Larry Cohen (born 15 July 1941, Kingston, New York, USA) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. ...
John McNaughton (born January 13, 1950) is an American film director, originally from Chicago, Illinois. ...
Haeckles Tale (also known as Clive Barkers Haeckles Tale) is the twelfth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
Takashi Miike ) (born August 24, 1960) is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. ...
Imprint is the thirteenth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
Episode 13, "Imprint", originally scheduled to premiere on January 27, 2006, was shelved by Showtime due to concerns over its content. Mick Garris, creator and executive producer of the series, characterized the episode as "the most disturbing film I've ever seen." It is available now only on DVD. is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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[1] The episode was released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment, along with the rest of the episodes in the series.[2] Imprint was shown in the UK on Bravo (7 April 2006).[3]
Season 2 | Episode | Director | Title | Overview | | 1 | Tobe Hooper | The Damned Thing | The apocalyptic tale of a monstrous force that devastates Sheriff Kevin Reddle’s family and terrorizes their small Texas community. | | 2 | John Landis | Family | This screenplay by Brent Hanley, tells the story of a young couple who move to a new city and soon find out that their neighbor is not what he seems. | | 3 | Ernest Dickerson | The V Word | This vampire film reveals the punishment visited upon two teenage boys who make the very poor decision to break into a mortuary. | | 4 | Brad Anderson | Sounds Like | Based on a short story by Mike O’Driscoll. The story of Larry Pearce, an ordinary man blessed with extraordinary hearing that drives him to the brink of insanity, and forces him to take violent action to silence the horrific cacophony in his head. | | 5 | John Carpenter | Pro-Life | Pro-Life tells the story of a young girl trapped inside a clinic, who discovers the only thing more dangerous than her pursuers is the demonic secret that she carries within her. | | 6 | Dario Argento | Pelts | Fur trader Jake Feldman knows that you can't make a coat without breaking a few animals' necks. In his pursuit to make the perfect fur coat to win over a woman, Feldman steals supernatural raccoon pelts that violently turn against those that covet them. Based on a short story by F. Paul Wilson | | 7 | Joe Dante | The Screwfly Solution | The Screwfly Solution tells the story of a nightmarish plague that spreads across the globe, transforming men into psychotic killers who attack every woman that crosses their paths. Based on the eponymous Nebula Award-winning short story by Raccoona Sheldon. | | 8 | Mick Garris | Valerie on the Stairs | This story tells the tale of a novelist who discovers there are fates worse than literary anonymity. | | 9 | Rob Schmidt | Right to Die | After walking away from an auto accident that leaves his wife in a coma and on life support, a man must decide to let his wife die. But the situation becomes more nightmarish when her vengeful spirit threatens to expose a dirty secret of his own. | | 10 | Tom Holland | We All Scream for Ice Cream | An ice cream man is accidentally killed during a childhood prank gone wrong. Now, years later after the kids have grown up, he returns for revenge. | | 11 | Stuart Gordon | The Black Cat | Edgar Allan Poe, suffering from writer's block and short on cash, tormented by a black cat that will either destroy his life or inspire him to write one of his most famous stories. | | 12 | Peter Medak | The Washingtonians | A man finds his family in danger after he discovers a shocking secret about the United States of America's founding fathers. Based on a short story by Bentley Little. | | 13 | Norio Tsuruta | Dream Cruise | Jack, an American lawyer working in Tokyo, has fallen in love with the wife of his most valued client, Eiji. Despite Jack's deep-rooted fear of the sea, he reluctantly accepts Eiji's invitation to join the couple for a day trip on the Tokyo Bay. Pleasure turns to terror as they discover the watery destiny in store for each of them. | Tobe Hooper (born Tobias Paul Hooper on January 25, 1943) is an American television and film director best known for his work in the horror film genre, including Lifeforce, Poltergeist, Toolbox Murders and the cult classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). ...
The Damned Thing is the first episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. ...
John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ...
Family is the first episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. ...
Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (born June 25, 1951) is an American film director and cinematographer. ...
The V Word is the third episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. ...
Brad Anderson (born 1964 in Madison, Connecticut, USA) is a film director. ...
Sounds Like is the fourth episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. ...
For other persons named John Carpenter, see John Carpenter (disambiguation). ...
Pro-Life is the fifth episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. ...
Dario Argento (born September 7, 1940) is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. ...
Pelts is the sixth episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. ...
Francis Paul Wilson (b. ...
Joe Dante (born November 28, 1946 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American film director and producer of films generally with humorous and scifi content. ...
The Screwfly Solution is the seventh episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. ...
The Screwfly Solution by Raccoona Sheldon received the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1977. ...
The Nebula is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the two previous years (see rolling eligibility below). ...
James Tiptree, Jr (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was the pen name of science fiction author Alice Sheldon. ...
Mick Garris (December 4, 1951 -) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California. ...
Valerie on the Stairs is the eighth episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. ...
Rob Schmidt (born September 25, 1965), is an American film director and writer. ...
Tom Holland was born on July 11th, 1943 in Phoughkeepsie, New York, USA and graduated from Worcester Academy in 1962. ...
We All Scream for Ice Cream is an episode of the series Masters of Horror directed by Tom Holland. ...
// Biography Stuart Gordon (born August 11, 1947) in Chicago, Illinois) is a director, writer and producer of films. ...
The Black Cat is the eleventh episode of the second season of Masters of Horror, directed by Stuart Gordon from a screenplay by Gordon and Dennis Paoli. ...
Peter Medak Peter Medak (December 23, 1937) is a Hungary-born director of British and American movies. ...
The Washingtonians is a short story, based on true events, written by Bentley Little. ...
Bentley Little is the author of numerous horror novels. ...
Tsuruta Norio (鶴田法男) is a Japanese film director. ...
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Related series
Season 3 / Fear Itself Series creator Mick Garris stated that Showtime opted not to show the third season and that film studio Lionsgate had begun funding the series.[1]. The Hollywood Reporter reported on Sept. 25th that Mick Garris and Lionsgate signed a 13-episode deal with NBC. Instead of a third season of the show, a new show, Fear Itself, was created with the same premise as Masters of Horror. It is set to premiere on NBC in Summer 2008. Mick Garris (December 4, 1951 -) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California. ...
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Mick Garris (December 4, 1951 -) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California. ...
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Masters of Science Fiction -
Main article: Masters of Science Fiction In 2006, broadcast network ABC and IDT announced that they were developing Masters of Science Fiction, a new anthology series from the creators of Masters of Horror. Six episodes have been produced, and they are scheduled to air Saturdays at 10PM starting August 4, 2007. The episodes feature adaptations of stories by John Kessel, Robert A. Heinlein, Jonathan Fast, and Walter Mosley. Jonathan Frakes has directed a story by Harlan Ellison. [2] Masters of Science Fiction is an American television series from the creators of Masters of Horror for the ABC network. ...
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Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of hard science fiction. ...
Jonathan Fast (born April 13, 1948, in New York City, New York) is an American author and social work educator. ...
Walter Mosley Walter Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is a prominent American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. ...
Jonathan Frakes (born August 19, 1952) is an American actor and director best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and David Xanatos on Disneys Gargoyles. ...
Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism. ...
Masters of Italian Horror Masters of Italian Horror is also in the works, though not related to the other two show's creators. The first four directors announced are Lamberto Bava, Umberto Lenzi, Sergio Martino and Nicola Rondolino. Lamberto Bava (Born April 3, 1944) is an Italian film director who is the son of Mario Bava. ...
Umberto Lenzi (born August 6, 1931), is an Italian film director who has mainly been active in low budget crime films. ...
Slave of the Cannibal God poster Sergio Martino (born 19 July 1938 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian film director, notable for his contributions to the giallo genre. ...
DVD Releases Rather than the expected route of packaging all of the season's episodes in one set, Anchor Bay Entertainment originally released each episode individually, as well as in optional two-packs or three-packs. The DVDs promise over three hours of bonus content, such as audio commentaries, interviews and documentaries. Starz Home Entertainment Logo Starz Home Entertainment (formerly Anchor Bay Entertainment) is a home video/television distribution company that was formed in 1989. ...
The DVD release also included covers and interior collectors cards painted by the Award winning Horror and Fantasy artist Caniglia. This article is an autobiography, and may not conform to Wikipedias NPOV policy. ...
With the release of Joe Dante's Homecoming the DVD cover art has changed from the director oriented look to a more mainstream DVD cover art. With the release of the Jenifer DVD artwork it appears that Anchor Bay has chosen to produce individual artwork specialized to each episode. Homecoming is the sixth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
Jenifer is the fourth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
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The Dead by Dawn film festival, which Anchor Bay supports, revealed in their festival guide that the decision has been taken by Anchor Bay UK to stop releasing double packs editions and instead release a season one box-set.
On August 28, 2007, the first season of Masters of Horror was released in a 14-disc box set. The set consists of all 13 episodes, each on an individual disc, plus a 14th bonus disc with all new, never-before-seen features. The first season of Masters of Horror is also scheduled for release in three volumes on Blu-ray Disc (volumes 1 and 2 on October 16, 2007; volume 3 on November 13, 2007). is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Soundtrack -
A two disc soundtrack was released for the series on Immortal Records. The album features primarily heavy metal and rock acts with a few acoustic pieces. Soundtrack for the TV series film, Masters of Horror. ...
Immortal Records is an independent record label out of Los Angeles, California. ...
Comic adaptations IDW publishing is producing a series of comic book adaptations of several episodes of the series. The first four issues are two-parters adapting Incident On and Off a Mountain Road and Dreams in the Witch-House. Incident On and Off a Mountain Road is the first episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
H.P. Lovecrafts Dreams in the Witch-House is the second episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ...
The first two comic covers were painted by the award-winning artist Caniglia. This article is an autobiography, and may not conform to Wikipedias NPOV policy. ...
Awards | Year | Award | Awards | | 2007 | Saturn Award | Win - Best Television Series Release on DVD | | 2007 | Saturn Award | Nominated - Best Presentation on Television | | 2007 | Spike TV awards | Nominated - Best TV Series | | 2006 | Saturn Award | Win - Best Television Presentation | | 2006 | Emmy | Win - Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music to Ed Shearmur | | 2006 | Emmy | Nominated - Outstanding Music Composition for a Series to Richard Band for the episode "Dreams In The Witch House". | Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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