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Masters of Horror
Genre	Horror/Thriller
Running time	60 minutes
Creator(s)	Mick Garris
Starring	Various
Country of origin	USA
Original network/channel	Showtime
Original run	October 28, 2005 – present
No. of episodes	13 (to date)

Masters of Horror (premiered October 28, 2005) is an American horror television series created by Mick Garris for Showtime. It is a weekly show which features one-hour movies by well known directors. There is no conceptual format, each episode is a self-contained one-hour story. As a cable show, it can feature more extreme levels of sex and violence than usual, and is therefore generally aimed at those who feel the current "PG-13" style of horror films is too tame. Of course, there is a limit as to how much can be handled; one episode was cut, another was postponed from America entirely.

According to interviews given by Mick Garris, the phrase "Masters of Horror" was coined one evening when the directors attached to the project were having dinner together, next to another group celebrating a birthday. Guillermo Del Toro reportedly raised his glass and addressed the other group with: "The Masters of Horror wish you a happy birthday!".

Season 1 episodes

Episode	Director	Screenshot	Title	Overview	DVD Cover
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 parallel universe and a plot by a sinister witch to sacrifice his neighbor's infant.
3	Tobe Hooper		Dance of the Dead	A girl experiences a post-apocalyptic world in which reanimated corpses dance on stage at a sinister bar.
4	Dario Argento		Jenifer	A police officer saves a hideously deformed girl's life only to be sucked into a web of murder and self-destruction.
5	Mick Garris		Chocolate	A divorced young man begins witnessing and experiencing the sights, smells and sounds of a woman he's never met.
6	Joe Dante		Homecoming	A political satire in which zombies of resurrected soldiers from the war in Iraq return in attempt to sway the presidential election.
7	John Landis		Deer Woman	An ancient Native American mythological creature wrecks havoc in this horror-comedy.
8	John Carpenter		Cigarette Burns	A man searches for a rare film print that allegedly drove its audience into a fit of murderous frenzy.
9	William Malone		Fair-Haired Child	A young 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	A female bug enthusiast starts a relationship with another girl but gets involved with a rather predatory and aggressive insect.
11	Larry Cohen		Pick Me Up	Two serial killers clash; one who kills hitchhikers, another who is a hitchhiker that slays whoever gives him a ride.
12	John McNaughton		Haeckel's Tale	A man seeking shelter in a cabin becomes involved in a grotesque orgy of the undead.
13	Takashi Miike		Imprint	An American's search for a Japanese prostitute he fell in love with leads him to a sinister island zoned for brothels and a mysterious deformed young woman who knows what really happened.

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 some graphic violence in its television broadcast.

Episode 13, "Imprint", originally scheduled to have its premiere on January 27, 2006, was removed from the television lineup 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." [1] The episode will be released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment, along with the rest of the episodes in the series.[2] Imprint was recently shown in the UK on Bravo (7th April 2006).[3]

Season 2

Garris confirmed a second season of the show would air in Autumn 2006. John Landis directs "Family", starring George Wendt. Dario Argento directs "Pelts", an adaptation of F. Paul Wilson's short story "Pelts", starring Meat Loaf. John Carpenter directs "Pro-Life" scripted by the same screenwriters who authored his season 1 episode. Joe Dante returns to direct another episode scripted by Sam Hamm, as does Stuart Gordon, who will be adapting an Edgar Allan Poe story. Tobe Hooper and Mick Garris also return to direct an episode each.

Ernest Dickerson, a newcomer to the series, is slated to direct an episode from a Mick Garris script. Brad Anderson and Tom Holland are the other confirmed newcomers, with three other episodes still without a confirmed director. [4]

The titles of the second season have been released have been made available, full details are available on TV.com [5].

DVD Release

Rather than the expected route of packaging all of the season's episodes in one set, Anchor Bay productions will release each episode individually and in optional two-packs or three-packs. The DVDs promise over three hours of bonus content, such as audio commentaries, interviews and documentaries.

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.

Comic Adaptations

The comic adaptation of Incident On and Off a Mountain Road.

IDW publishing is doing a series of comicbook adaptations of several episodes of the series. The first four issues are twoparters of Incident On and Off a Mountain Road and Dreams in the Witch-House.

External links

• Official Website
• Masters of Horror news coverage at The Horror Channel
• Review for Incident On and Off a Mountain Road at The Horror Channel
• Review for Dreams in the Witch-House at The Horror Channel
• Review for Dance of the Dead at The Horror Channel
• Review for Jenifer at The Horror Channel
• Review for Chocolate at The Horror Channel
• Review for Homecoming at The Horror Channel
• Review for Deer Woman at The Horror Channel
• Review for Cigarette Burns at The Horror Channel
• Review for Fair-Haired Child at The Horror Channel
• Review for Sick Girl at The Horror Channel
• Review for Pick Me Up at The Horror Channel
• Review for Haeckel's Tale at The Horror Channel
• Review for Imprint at The Horror Channel