Masters of Horror Season 1 (2005-2006)
Original Air Dates: October 28, 2005 - January 27, 2006
Episode #: 1
Title: "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road"
Director: Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep)
Stars: John DeSantis, Ethan Embry, Heather Feeney, Angus Scrimm, Bree Turner
Summary: A would-be victim of a serial killer has a few surprises up her sleeve.
Episode #: 2
Title: "Dreams in the Witch-House"
Director: Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond)
Stars: Ezra Godden, Chelah Horsdal, Campbell Lane
Summary: A college student begins to question his sanity as the line between dream and reality blur in this surreal tale based on an H.P. Lovecraft story.
Episode #: 3
Title: "Dance of the Dead"
Director: Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist)
Stars: Robert Englund, Erica Carroll, Lucie Guest
Summary: In a post-apocalyptic world, a sheltered girl enters a night club to discover zombie dancers and a haunting secret from her past.
Episode #: 4
Title: "Jenifer"
Director: Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red, Phenomena)
Stars: Steven Weber, Carrie Anne Fleming, Beau Starr, Brenda James
Summary: A police officer saves a disfigured woman from a killer, only to have her develop a possessive, murderous attachment to him.
Episode #: 5
Title: "Chocolate"
Director: Mick Garris (The Stand, Sleepwalkers, The Shining [1997])
Stars: Henry Thomas, Matt Frewer, Lucie Laurier, Stacy Grant
Summary: A man begins to see life -- and death -- through a strange woman's eyes, then sets about finding her.
Episode #: 6
Title: "Homecoming"
Director: Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling, Twilight Zone: The Movie)
Stars: Jason Emanuel, Robert Picardo, Jon Tenney, Thea Gill
Summary: Soldiers who died in the Iraq War begin to rise from the grave with a hunger for...democracy. Their desire to vote against the current administration who sent them off to die throws a monkey wrench in the president's reelection plans in this scathing satire.
Episode #: 7
Title: "Deer Woman"
Director: John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, Twilight Zone: The Movie)
Stars: Brian Benben, Andy Thompson, Sonja Bennett, Cinthia Moura, Anthony Griffith, Cinthia Moura
Summary: A detective investigates a series of murders that may have been committed by a legendary Native American deer-woman seductress.
Episode #: 8
Title: "Cigarette Burns"
Director: John Carpenter (Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Christine)
Stars: Udo Kier, Norman Reedus, Gary Hetherington, Christopher Britton, Zara Taylor
Summary: This twisted tale finds a film collector searching for a long-lost film that supposedly has the power to drive viewers into a homicidal rage and is somehow tied to the existence of a real-life angel.
Episode #: 9
Title: "Fair Haired Child"
Director: William Malone (House on Haunted Hill [1999], FeardotCom)
Stars: Jesse Haddock, Lori Petty, Walter Phelan, Lindsay Pulsipher, William Samples
Summary: A girl is kidnapped by a couple with a sinister secret involving the son they keep locked in their basement.
Episode #: 10
Title: "Sick Girl"
Director: Lucky McKee (May, The Woods)
Stars: Angela Bettis, Misty Mundae, Jesse Hlubik, Marcia Bennett, Chandra Berg
Summary: A shy lesbian bug expert's life is turned upside down when a mysterious bug bites her new girlfriend on the ear, with gruesome consequences.
Episode #: 11
Title: "Pick Me Up"
Director: Larry Cohen (It's Alive, God Told Me To, The Stuff, Q: The Winged Serpent)
Stars: Laurene Landon, Fairuza Balk, Michael Moriarty, Warren Kole, Paul Anthony, Peter Benson, Malcolm Kennard
Summary: Two serial killers -- one a hitchhiker, one a truck driver who picks up hitchhikers -- vie for the privilege of killing an unfortunate young woman.
Episode #: 12
Title: "Haeckel's Tale"
Director: John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Borrower)
Stars: Gerard Plunkett, Steve Bacic, Derek Cecil, Leela Savasta, Jon Polito, Pablo Coffey, Christopher DeLisle
Summary: Based on a Clive Barker story, this episode revolves around a 19th-century medical student who seeks to revive the dead, only to reconsider after stumbling upon a twisted couple whose lust extends beyond the grave.
Episode #: 13
Title: "Imprint"
Director: Takashi Miike (One Missed Call, Audition, Ichi the Killer)
Stars: Billy Drago, Youki Kudoh, Michie Ito, Toshie Negishi
Summary: An American journalist in 19th-century Japan seeks a prostitute he promised to rescue years earlier. He finds an escort whose tales of depravity and abuse draw him closer to the truth about his love's fate.
