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     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.142 |
Premise: A continuation of the Mick Garris-created anthology series Masters of Horror, gathering renowned horror movie writers and directors to film standalone stories showcasing the best that horror has to offer. Years Active: 2008 Network: NBC Running Time: 60 minutes Season 1 Episode #: 1 Title: "Sacrifice" Director: Breck Eisner (remakes of Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Crazies) Stars: Jeffrey Pierce, Jesse Plemons, Stephen Martines, Rachel Miner, Mircea Monroe Summary: Four criminals trapped inside an old, abandoned fort discover that it's inhabited by a trio of attractive sisters with a deadly secret. Episode #: 2 Title: "Spooked" Director: Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Machinist) Stars: Eric Roberts, Jack Noseworthy, Cynthia Watros, Larry Gilliard Jr. Summary: While on a stakeout in a haunted house, a private eye confronts the demons of his past. Episode #: 3 Title: "Family Man" Director: Ronny Yu (Freddy vs. Jason, Bride of Chucky) Stars: Colin Ferguson, Clifton Collins Jr., Josie Davis, Gig Morton, Nicole Leduc Summary: A family man switches bodies with a serial killer after a near-death experience and must fight from behind bars to save his family from becoming the next victims. Episode #: 4 Title: "In Sickness and in Health" Director: John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, Twilight Zone: The Movie) Stars: Maggie Lawson, James Roday, Christie Laing, Sonja Bennett, Marshall Bell Summary: On her wedding day, a bride receives a mysterious note that reads, "The person you are marrying is a serial killer." Episode #: 5 Title: "Eater" Director: Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond) Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Stephen R. Hart, Russell Hornsby, Pablo Schreiber, Stephen Lee Summary: A rookie police officer must spend a night in the precinct guarding a serial killer nicknamed "The Eater." When the other cops start acting bizarre, she suspects that no one is who they seem. Episode #: 6 Title: "New Year's Day" Director: Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Repo! The Genetic Opera) Stars: Briana Evigan, Cory Monteith, Niall Matter Summary: A young woman wakes up to find herself in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies. Episode #: 7 Title: "Community" Director: Mary Harron (American Psycho) Stars: Brandon Routh, Shiri Appleby, John Billingsley, Bonita Friedericy Summary: A young married couple discovers that the seemingly perfect neighborhood they just moved into has a dark side in which their neighbors go to extremes to ensure that they conform to the warped sense of community. Episode #: 8 Title: "Skin and Bones" Director: Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter, Wendigo) Stars: Doug Jones, Gordon Tootoosis Summary: After being lost in the woods for days, a cattle herder returns home to his family -- possessed by an evil creature. Episode #: 9 Title: "Something With Bite" Director: Ernest Dickerson (Demon Knight, Bones) Stars: Wendell Pierce, Paula Jai Parker Summary: When a veterinarian is bitten by a large, strange animal brought into his clinic, he begins to see the world and his stale life differently. Episode #: ? Title: "Chance" Director: John Dahl (Joy Ride) Stars: TBD Summary: A man embarks on a battle of will when he comes face to face with his evil doppelganger. Episode #: ? Title: "Echoes" Director: Rupert Wainwright (The Fog, Stigmata) Stars: TBD Summary: A young man moves into an apartment where he believes he lived in a past life, but he realizes that in his previous life he was a serial killer, and he must keep that life from bleeding into his present one. Episode #: ? Title: "The Spirit Box" Director: Rob Schmidt (Wrong Turn) Stars: TBD Summary: Two high school girls contact a dead classmate with a Ouija board and learn that she was killed by a teacher with whom she'd been having an affair. Episode #: ? Title: "The Circle" Director: TBD Stars: TBD Summary: A group of people that meets every Halloween to tell scary stories realizes that they're living one of the stories. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.142 |
Craig - notice the first episode's director is none other than that bastard who pipped you to the post when NICKLEODEON had to reject your script...I won't watch that one out of solidarity. Then again, I probably won't watch any of them since I now have the entire series of Masters of Horror 1 & 2, and only a handful were standout. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Ooh, look at all those fresh premises! It's like a brand new trading estate in Milton Keynes up there! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.142 |
Prof - perhaps with some of the more respectable directors like Anderson, Dahl and Larry Fessenden, some of the stories may be worth watching? Maybe? Why is there always some woman taking her clothes off in every Mick Garris story? Frank now awaits the multiple puns and comedic answers. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.11.182 |
Yeah, Frank, that was an MTV Films decision - they're gone now, and it's probably Paramount (?) I assume that's doing THE CRAZIES, or some prodco under them - I actually wasn't aware that it was being done.... (I had a small prodco approach us [me and my cowriter] on FRIENDLY, our script - they said, in essence: we love it, but change the whole thing around, and then we'll try and get financing. Um, no. That's Hollywood. Still looking for a home for this... anyone out there want to buy a stellar horror screenplay?...  ) I liked JENIFER from the original MoH series, though I admittedly watched only a few of them. The guy that had directed AUDITION I think?... didn't he do one?... if it's the one I saw, it was pretty good too, just for being so utterly odd.... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.142 |
Craig, what's 'Friendly about?' Pitch it to me. Dario Argento's 'Jennifer'? I've not watched it yet. It's the only one. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
Craig, Takashi Miike (AUDITION) directed a film called IMPRINT for MoH's first season, but due to controversial subject matter (incest and abortion, as I recall) it was rejected by Showtime and never aired. You can find it on DVD, though. Oddly enough, JENIFER was the only MoH episode I really liked, too. (I didn't see them all, however.) | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.1.49 |
A bunch of college kids are stranded in a small desert town, mostly abandoned, named FRIENDLY. They stumble across a bizarre, hideous, primeval fungus that's been uprooted in a recent earthquake, and breathe in the spores it emanates. Becoming "infected" means you put off a pheremone, which triggers an evolutionary response in the innocents that "smell" it: it turns them into mindless homicidal maniacs, bent on murdering you - it's evolutionary, because the next stage of the "infection" is deadly to everyone around.... And so, the script is a reverse-zombie script: the HEROES are infected, and they're fighting off hapless, grandma-nice innocents who just happen to lose their minds and go apeshit as they try to kill them - so they've got to fight back and kill the innocents - it's partially a black comedy, did I mention?...  | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.18.104 |
I really loved the 'Masters Of Horror' series and am overjoyed to see it resurrected! Way more hits than misses imho and was great to see big name directors being given the time and money to make offbeat and original little horror films that wouldn't have seen the light of day as cinema releases. Argento's 'Jenifer' is my pick of the bunch too but by no means the only notable episode. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
More misses than hits for me, I'm afraid. But IMPRINT was worth having the whole series for - brilliant. Carpenter's CIGARETTE BURNS was also a winner. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.128 |
Zed - I agree with you, mate. IMPRINT, plus Anderson's story (for me the real horror story of the bunch), and Cigarette Burns were superior to the rest. Unfortunately, Carpenter's second season episode set in an abortion clinic, started off great, then finished with a ludicrous and appalling finale. Awful. There was a Clive Barker adaptation, and though I haven't read the story, it was generally piss poor. Interesting premise, fledgling writer shacks up with other fledgling writers in an old hotel, and discovers the ghost of a woman on the stairs. Admittedly, the very last scene is very Barkish. |