Showtime's Masters of Horror (2005-2007) (720p HD - AAC Stereo)

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Showtime's ...





Masters of Horror (2005-2007)




[Season 1 - Blu-ray | Season 2 - 720p HDTV]

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In 2002, director Mick Garris invited some
director friends to an informal dinner at a
restaurant in Sherman Oaks, California. The
original ten “masters” attending were John
Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Don Coscarelli, Joe Dante,
Guillermo Del Toro, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper,
John Landis, Bill Malone, and Garris himself. The
dinner was an extremely satisfying experience for
the directors: a welcome night of camaraderie,
humor and mutual admiration of one another's work.
Del Toro coined the name of the group in jest when
he told a nearby diner celebrating her birthday
that the "Masters of Horror" wished her a happy
birthday.

Subsequently, Garris organized regular dinners with
the group and invited other horror and genre
directors to attend, including Dario Argento, Eli
Roth, David Cronenberg, Tim Sullivan, Rob Zombie,
Bryan Singer, Fred Dekker, William Lustig, Lucky
McKee, Ernest Dickerson, Kat O’ Shea, Quentin
Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, James Gunn, Mary
Lambert, Tom Holland, Peter Medak, Ti West, Lloyd
Kaufman, and others.

In 2005, Garris created and produced an original
anthology television series of one-hour movies,
written and directed by many of the "masters," which
was originally broadcast in the U.S. on the Showtime
cable network. In several international territories,
the films were released theatrically.

The series debuted to excellent reviews in the U.S.
on October 28, 2005 with the premiere episode
"Incident On and Off a Mountain Road," co-written
and directed by Don Coscarelli, based on the short
story by Joe R. Lansdale. New episodes premiered
every Friday at 10 p.m. EST throughout the series'
two seasons. The show followed an anthology series
format, with each episode featuring a one-hour film
directed by a well-known horror film director.

In 2009, Chiller began airing the show on their
Sunday evening line-up of shows, and in 2010, Reelz
Channel began airing episodes of Masters of Horror
edited (despite keeping its TV-MA rating) and with
commercials.





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-- Season 1 (2005–06) --



1 "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" Don Coscarelli
Short Story by: Joe R. Lansdale
Teleplay by: Don Coscarelli & Stephen Romano
Original Air Date: October 28, 2005

A young woman matches wits with a deformed and sadistic
serial killer on and off a remote mountain road.
Based on the short story by Joe R. Lansdale


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2 "H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House"
Stuart Gordon Short Story by: H. P. Lovecraft
Teleplay by: Dennis Paoli & Stuart Gordon
November 4, 2005

A college student renting an old room in a boarding
house discovers a plot by sinister, otherworldly forces
to sacrifice his neighbour's infant. Based on the short
story by H. P. Lovecraft


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3 "Dance of the Dead" Tobe Hooper
Short Story by: Richard Matheson
Teleplay by: Richard Christian Matheson
Original Air Date: November 11, 2005

A teenage girl living in a post-apocalyptic village
befriends a group of rough punks who hang out at a
sinister bar where reanimated corpses dance on stage.


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4 "Jenifer" Dario Argento
Short Story by: Bruce Jones
Teleplay by: Steven Weber
Original Air Date: November 18, 2005

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 from which he finds it hard
to break away.

[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.]


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5 "Chocolate" Mick Garris
Short Story by: Mick Garris
Teleplay by: Mick Garris
Original Air Date: November 25, 2005

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. But his quest to meet her
face-to-face leads to drastic consequences.


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6 "Homecoming" Joe Dante
Short Story by: Dale Bailey
Teleplay by: Sam Hamm
Original Air Date: December 2, 2005
Political satire in which the reanimated corpses of
soldiers killed in Iraq return in an attempt to sway
the presidential election.


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7 "Deer Woman" John Landis
Max Landis & John Landis
Original Air Date: December 9, 2005

A police detective investigates a series of brutal
murders which are committed by an ancient creature in
the form of a beautiful woman who is spawned from a
Native American mythology in this horror-comedy.


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8 "Cigarette Burns" John Carpenter
Drew McWeeny & Scott Swan
Original Air Date: December 16, 2005
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.


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9 "Fair Haired Child" William Malone
Matt Greenberg
Original Air Date: January 6, 2006

A teenage outcast is kidnapped by a strange couple and
locked in a basement with their son, who has a dark
secret.


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10 "Sick Girl" Lucky McKee
Story by: Sean Hood
Teleplay by: Sean Hood and Lucky McKee
Original Air Date: January 13, 2006
A female insect enthusiast starts a relationship with
another woman, but then also finds herself involved
with a rather predatory and aggressive insect.


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11 "Pick Me Up" Larry Cohen
Short Story by: David J. Schow
Teleplay by: David J. Schow
Original Air Date: January 20, 2006

Two serial killers (one who kills hitchhikers, another
who kills anyone who gives him a ride) clash over their
latest victim.


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12 "Haeckel's Tale" John McNaughton
Short Story by: Clive Barker
Teleplay by: Mick Garris
Original Air Date: January 27, 2006

In the 1850s, a man on his way to his sick father in
upstate New York, seeks shelter in a secluded cabin
owned by a mysterious couple where he becomes involved
in a grotesque orgy of the undead.


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13 "Imprint" Takashi Miike
Novel "Bokkê, kyôtê" by: Shimako Iwai
Teleplay by: Daisuke Tengan
Not shown on Showtime with rest of series!

A 19th century American tourist gets much more than
he bargained for while searching for a Japanese
prostitute he fell in love with years earlier.

[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 only on DVD
and Blu-ray by Anchor Bay Entertainment, along with
the rest of the episodes in the first season.
"Imprint" was shown in the UK on Bravo
(7 April 2006).]



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-- Season 2 (2006–07) --


14 "The Damned Thing" Tobe Hooper
Short Story by: Ambrose Bierce
Teleplay by: Richard Christian Matheson
Original Air Date: October 27, 2006

The apocalyptic tale of a monstrous, unseen force
that devastates Sheriff Kevin Reddle’s family and
terrorizes their small Texas community. Based on
the short story of the same title by Ambrose
Bierce.


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15 "Family" John Landis
Brent Hanley
Original Air Date: November 3, 2006

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.


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16 "The V Word" Ernest Dickerson
Mick Garris
Original Air Date: November 10, 2006

This vampire film reveals the punishment visited
upon two teenage boys who make the very poor
decision to break into a mortuary and encounter
a real vampire.


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17 "Sounds Like" Brad Anderson
Short Story by: Mike O'Driscoll
Teleplay by: Brad Anderson
Original Air Date: November 17, 2006

The story of Larry Pearce, an ordinary man
blessed with gift/curse of 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.


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18 "Pro-Life" John Carpenter
Drew McWeeny & Scott Swan
Original Air Date: November 24, 2006
Pro-Life tells the story of a young pregnant girl
trapped inside an abortion clinic by her murderous
family, who soon discovers the only thing more
dangerous than her pursuers is the demonic secret
that she carries within her.


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19 "Pelts" Dario Argento
Short Story by: F. Paul Wilson
Teleplay by: Matt Venne
Original Air Date: December 1, 2006

Fur trader Jake Feldman knows that you cannot
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.


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20 "The Screwfly Solution" Joe Dante
Short Story by: James Tiptree, Jr.
Teleplay by: Sam Hamm
Original Air Date: December 8, 2006

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.


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21 "Valerie on the Stairs" Mick Garris
Short Story by: Clive Barker
Teleplay by: Mick Garris
Original Air Date: December 29, 2006

Valerie on the Stairs tells the tale of a
novelist renting a room in a flophouse to write
a novel, who discovers there are fates worse than
literary anonymity when he encounters a
mysterious woman and a stalking demon spawned
from the imagination of three tenants.


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22 "Right to Die" Rob Schmidt
John Esposito
Original Air Date: January 5, 2007

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.


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23 "We All Scream for Ice Cream" Tom Holland
Short Story by: John Farris
Teleplay by: David J. Schow
Original Air Date: January 12, 2007

In the 1950s, an ice cream man in clown makeup is
accidentally killed during a childhood prank gone
wrong. Now, years later after the kids have grown
up, his ghost returns for revenge.


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24 "The Black Cat" Stuart Gordon
Short Story by: Edgar Allan Poe
Teleplay by: Dennis Paoli & Stuart Gordon
Original Air Date: January 19, 2007

In 1841 Philadelphia, Edgar Allan Poe, suffering
from writer's block and short on cash, is
tormented by his wife's black cat that will either
destroy his life or inspire him to write one of his
most famous stories.


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25 "The Washingtonians" Peter Medak
Short Story by: Bentley Little
Teleplay by: Richard Chizmar & Johnathon Schaech
Original Air Date: January 26, 2007

A man finds his family in danger after he discovers
a shocking secret about the United States of
America's founding fathers, in which a secret
society is hell-bent on keeping a secret at any
cost.


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26 "Dream Cruise" Norio Tsuruta
Short Story by: Kôji Suzuki
Teleplay by: Naoya Takayama & Norio Tsuruta
Original Air Date: February 2, 2007

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
slowly turns to terror as they discover the watery
destiny in store for each of them.






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IMDB Overall Rating: 7.6 (02/10/16) [0448190]



Rating and parental guide info for this film:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448190/parentalguide





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All 26 Episodes:

Video: 1280x720 -- H.264 (x264) - S1/2440 S2/2200 kbps
Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Audio: Dolby Pro Logic II -- 160kbps (AAC Stereo)

Language: English

Subtitle(s): None





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