Masters of Horror
Masters of Horror | |
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Genre | Horror Thriller |
Created by | Mick Garris |
Country of origin | United States Canada |
No.of seasons | 2 |
No.of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Mick Garris,Andrew Deane,Keith Addis |
Producers | Adam Goldworm,Ben Browning |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production companies | Industry Entertainment Nice Guy Productions Reunion Pictures Starz Productions Showtime Networks |
Original release | |
Network | Showtime |
Release | October 28, 2005 February 2, 2007 | –
Masters of Horroris ananthologytelevision series created by directorMick Garrisfor theShowtimecable network.
Origin
[edit]In 2002, directorMick Garrisinvited some director friends to an informal dinner at a restaurant inSherman Oaks, California.The original ten "masters" attending wereJohn Carpenter,Larry Cohen,Don Coscarelli,Joe Dante,Guillermo del Toro,Stuart Gordon,Tobe Hooper,John Landis,Bill Malone,and Garris himself.
Subsequently, Garris organized regular dinners with the group and invited other horror and other genre directors to attend, includingDario Argento,Eli Roth,Wes Craven,David Cronenberg,Tim Sullivan,Rob Zombie,Bryan Singer,Fred Dekker,William Lustig,Lucky McKee,Ernest Dickerson,Katt 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 theShowtimecable 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 byDon Coscarelli,based on the short story byJoe R. Lansdale.New episodes premiered every Friday at 10 p.m. EST throughout the series' two seasons. The show followed ananthology seriesformat, with each episode featuring a one-hour film directed by a well-knownhorror filmdirector.In 2009,Chillerbegan airing the show on their Sunday evening line-up of shows, and in 2010,Reelz Channelbegan airing episodes ofMasters of Horroredited (despite keeping itsTV-MArating) and with commercials.[1]
Series overview
[edit]Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 13 | October 28, 2005 | February 25, 2006 | |
2 | 13 | October 27, 2006 | February 2, 2007 |
Episodes
[edit]Season 1 (2005–06)
[edit]No. overall | No.in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" | Don Coscarelli | Short story by :Joe R. Lansdale Teleplay by : Don Coscarelli & Stephen Romano | October 28, 2005 | |
A young woman matches wits with a deformed andsadisticserial killeron and off a remote mountain road. Based on the short story byJoe R. Lansdale. | ||||||
2 | 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 aboarding housediscovers a plot by sinister, otherworldly forces tosacrificehis neighbour's infant. Based on the short story byH. P. Lovecraft. | ||||||
3 | 3 | "Dance of the Dead" | Tobe Hooper | Short story by :Richard Matheson Teleplay by :Richard Christian Matheson | November 11, 2005 | |
A teenage girl living in apost-apocalypticvillagebefriends a group of rough punks who hang out at a sinister bar wherereanimated corpsesdance on stage. | ||||||
4 | 4 | "Jenifer" | Dario Argento | Short story by :Bruce Jones Teleplay by :Steven Weber | November 18, 2005 | |
Apolice officersaves the life of a hideously deformed young woman, only to find himself drawn into a web ofmurderand self-destruction from which he finds it difficult to break away. | ||||||
5 | 5 | "Chocolate" | Mick Garris | Short story by : Mick Garris Teleplay by : Mick Garris | November 25, 2005 | |
6 | 6 | "Homecoming" | Joe Dante | Short story by :Dale Bailey Teleplay by :Sam Hamm | December 2, 2005 | |
A politicalsatirein which thereanimated corpsesofAmerican soldiers killed in Iraqreturn in an attempt to sway the U.S. presidential election. | ||||||
7 | 7 | "Deer Woman" | John Landis | Max Landis& John Landis | December 9, 2005 | |
In thishorror comedy,a police detective investigates a series of brutalmurderswhich are committed by an ancient creature fromNative American mythology. | ||||||
8 | 8 | "Cigarette Burns" | John Carpenter | Drew McWeeny& Scott Swan | December 16, 2005 | |
A man searches for the last surviving print of a rare film which allegedly drove the only audience that ever viewed it into a fit of homicidal frenzy. | ||||||
9 | 9 | "Fair-Haired Child" | William Malone | Matt Greenberg | January 6, 2006 | |
10 | 10 | "Sick Girl" | Lucky McKee | Story by :Sean Hood Teleplay by : Sean Hood and Lucky McKee | January 13, 2006 | |
A horror comedy in which alesbianentomologiststarts a relationship with another woman, but then also finds herself involved with a rather predatory and aggressive insect. | ||||||
11 | 11 | "Pick Me Up" | Larry Cohen | Short story by :David J. Schow Teleplay by : David J. Schow | January 20, 2006 | |
Twoserial killers(one who kills hitchhikers, another who kills anyone who gives him a ride) clash over their latest victim. | ||||||
12 | 12 | "Haeckel's Tale" | John McNaughton | Short story by :Clive Barker Teleplay by : Mick Garris | January 27, 2006 | |
In the 1850s, a man on his way to his sick father inUpstate New York,seeks shelter in a secluded cabin owned by a mysterious couple where he becomes involved in a grotesqueorgy of the undead. | ||||||
13 | 13 | "Imprint" | Takashi Miike | Teleplay by : Daisuke Tengan Novel "Bokkê, kyôtê" by : Shimako Iwai | February 25, 2006citation needed] | [|
A 19th-century American tourist inJapangets much more than he bargained for while searching for a Japaneseprostitutehe fell in love with years earlier. |
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.
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".[2]It is available only on DVD and Blu-ray by Anchor Bay Entertainment, along with the rest of the episodes in the first season.[3]"Imprint" was shown in the UK on Bravo (7 April 2006).[4]
Season 2 (2006–07)
[edit]No. overall | No.in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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14 | 1 | "The Damned Thing" | Tobe Hooper | Short story by :Ambrose Bierce Teleplay by :Richard Christian Matheson | 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 storyof the same titlebyAmbrose Bierce. | ||||||
15 | 2 | "Family" | John Landis | Brent Hanley | November 3, 2006 | |
A young married couple moves into a new home and meet their seemingly venerable neighbor Harold. Harold is in fact apsychoticserial killerwho has created a family using theskeletonsof his former victims, which he has kidnapped and murdered throughout the years. | ||||||
16 | 3 | "The V Word" | Ernest Dickerson | Mick Garris | November 10, 2006 | |
Thisvampire filmreveals the punishment visited upon two teenage boys who make the very poor decision to break into a mortuary and encounter a realvampire. | ||||||
17 | 4 | "Sounds Like" | Brad Anderson | Short story by : Mike O'Driscoll Teleplay by : Brad Anderson | November 17, 2006 | |
The story of Larry Pearce, an ordinary man blessed with the 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. | ||||||
18 | 5 | "Pro-Life" | John Carpenter | Drew McWeenyand Scott Swan | November 24, 2006 | |
Pro-Life tells the story of a young pregnant girl trapped inside anabortion clinicby her murderous family, who soon discovers the only thing more dangerous than her pursuers is the demonic secret that she carries within her. | ||||||
19 | 6 | "Pelts" | Dario Argento | Short story by :F. Paul Wilson Teleplay by : Matt Venne | December 1, 2006 | |
Fur traderJake 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 supernaturalraccoonpelts that violently turn against those that covet them. | ||||||
20 | 7 | "The Screwfly Solution" | Joe Dante | Short story by :James Tiptree, Jr. Teleplay by :Sam Hamm | December 8, 2006 | |
A nightmarishplaguespreads across the globe, transforming men into killers who attack every woman that crosses their paths. | ||||||
21 | 8 | "Valerie on the Stairs" | Mick Garris | Short story by :Clive Barker Teleplay by : Mick Garris | December 29, 2006 | |
A novelist rents a room in a flophouse to write a novel and discovers there are fates worse than literary anonymity when he encounters a mysterious woman and a stalkingdemonspawned from the imagination of three tenants. | ||||||
22 | 9 | "Right to Die" | Rob Schmidt | John Esposito | January 5, 2007 | |
After walking away from an auto accident that leaves his wife in acomaand onlife support,a man must decide to let his wife die. But the situation becomes more nightmarish when hervengeful spiritthreatens to expose a dirty secret of his own. | ||||||
23 | 10 | "We All Scream for Ice Cream" | Tom Holland | Short story by :John Farris Teleplay by :David J. Schow | January 12, 2007 | |
24 | 11 | "The Black Cat" | Stuart Gordon | Short story by :Edgar Allan Poe Teleplay by :Dennis Paoli& Stuart Gordon | 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. | ||||||
25 | 12 | "The Washingtonians" | Peter Medak | Short story by :Bentley Little Teleplay by :Richard Chizmar&Johnathon Schaech | 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. | ||||||
26 | 13 | "Dream Cruise" | Norio Tsuruta | Short story by :Kôji Suzuki Teleplay by : Naoya Takayama & Norio Tsuruta | February 2, 2007 | |
Jack, an American lawyer working inTokyo,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. |
Related series
[edit]Fear Itself
[edit]Series creatorMick Garrisstated thatShowtimeopted not to show the third season and that film studioLionsgatehad begun funding the series.[5]The Hollywood Reporterreported on September 25, 2007, thatMick GarrisandLionsgatesigned a 13-episode deal withNBC.Instead of a third season of the show, a new show,Fear Itself,was created with the same premise asMasters of Horror.It premiered on NBC in Summer 2008.
Soundtrack
[edit]A two-disc soundtrack was released for the series in October 2005 onImmortal Records.The album features heavy metal and hard rock acts with a few acoustic pieces. A second volume was released a year later.
Comic adaptations
[edit]IDW Publishingproduced a series ofcomic bookadaptations of several episodes from the series. The first four issues are two-parters, adapting "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road",based on the short story byJoe R. Lansdale,and "Dreams in the Witch-House".[6][7]The first two comic covers were painted by the award-winning artistJeremy Caniglia.
Awards and nominations
[edit]Year | Award | Result | Category | Recipient | Notes |
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2006 | Saturn Award | Won | Best Television Presentation | Tied withThe Triangle | |
2007 | Nominated | ||||
Won | Best Television DVD Release | ||||
2006 | Emmy Award | Nominated | Outstanding Music Composition for a Series | Richard Band | Episode: "H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House" |
Won | Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music | Edward Shearmur | |||
2007 | Satellite Award | Won | Best DVD Extras(Season 1) | Tied withBorat |
References
[edit]- ^"Masters of Horror on ReelzChannel".ReelzChannel.Archived fromthe originalon 24 August 2010.Retrieved2014-07-14.
- ^Kehr, Dave (2006-01-19)."Horror Film Made for Showtime Will Not Be Shown".The New York Times.
- ^Lambert, David (2005-12-17)."Masters of Horror– 13 Master-ful DVD Releases (But Not 13 Episodes) To Be a Pricey Proposition ".tvshowsondvd.com. Archived fromthe originalon 2008-08-29.
- ^"Masters of Horror".bravo.co.uk. Archived fromthe originalon 2008-05-17.
- ^Jon Condit (August 12, 2007)."Lionsgate Behind Masters 3".Dread Central.RetrievedOctober 18,2013.
- ^Masters of HorrorArchived2008-09-08 at theWayback MachineatIDW Publishing
- ^IDW Unleashes The Masters of Horror in December[permanent dead link](press release),Newsarama,November 28, 2005
External links
[edit]- Masters of HorroratIMDb
- Official website(requiresAdobe Flash) archived at theWayback Machine
- 2000s American anthology television series
- 2000s American horror television series
- 2005 American television series debuts
- 2007 American television series endings
- 2000s Canadian anthology television series
- 2005 Canadian television series debuts
- 2007 Canadian television series endings
- Showtime (TV network) original programming
- Television shows filmed in Vancouver
- American English-language television shows
- American horror fiction television series
- Canadian horror fiction television series
- Television series by Lionsgate Television
- Horror anthologies
- Saturn Award-winning television series