The Best Episodes of Masters of Horror

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#1 - Cigarette Burns
S1:E812/16/2005
In this episode Jimmy Sweetman ventures out to locate a rare film print called "Le Fin Du Monde". The film once shown has been known to drive its audience into a crazed frenzy before the theatre goes up in flames. He finally discovers that the film does live up to it's reputation on the results are quite shocking.
Director:John Carpenter
Writers:Drew McWeeny, Rebecca Swan
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Director:John Carpenter
Writers:Drew McWeeny, Rebecca Swan
7.1/10(3751 votes)
#2 - Family
S2:E211/3/2006
A young couple moves into a new home only to find out that their neighbor, a seemingly normal man who works from home is not what he seems.
Director:John Landis
Writer:Unknown
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Director:John Landis
Writer:Unknown
6.6/10(2790 votes)
#3 - The Black Cat
S2:E111/19/2007
Edgar Allan Poe is a writer out of ideas and short on cash that's followed by a black cat that will destroy his life or help him to write one of his most famous stories.
Director:Stuart Gordon
Writer:Stuart Gordon
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Director:Stuart Gordon
Writer:Stuart Gordon
6.5/10(5845 votes)
#4 - Dreams in the Witch House
S1:E211/4/2005
Walter Gilman, a college student rents a loft in a building in the New England town of Arkham. While studying interdimensional string theory at college he is haunted by nightmares of a 17th century witch and her rat with a human face. He must prevent the death of his neighbour's baby at the hands of these forces while it's possible he could become the murderer himself.
Director:Stuart Gordon
Writers:Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli
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Director:Stuart Gordon
Writers:Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli
6.4/10(6491 votes)
#5 - Incident On and Off a Mountain Road
S1:E110/28/2005
While driving at night on a mountain road, Ellen gets distracted and hits an abandoned car. When she tries to get help, she is attacked by a backwoods killer and must fight to stay alive.
Director:Don Coscarelli
Writers:Don Coscarelli, Joe R. Lansdale
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Director:Don Coscarelli
Writers:Don Coscarelli, Joe R. Lansdale
6.4/10(4660 votes)
#6 - Deer Woman
S1:E712/9/2005
In this horror comedy, A set of peculiar murders leads sceptical detective Dwight Faraday to suspect that an ancient Native American mythological creature is in fact real.
Director:John Landis
Writer:John Landis
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Director:John Landis
Writer:John Landis

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6.4/10(3962 votes)
#7 - Fair Haired Child
S1:E91/6/2006
A 13 year old is kidnapped and locked in a basement by a scary couple with their younger son. During there incarceration in the basement the two children develop a special relationship and try and get through the night.
Director:William Malone
Writer:Matt Greenberg
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Director:William Malone
Writer:Matt Greenberg
6.4/10(3942 votes)
#8 - Pick Me Up
S1:E111/20/2006
In the middle of nowhere, with only a two-lane highway to connect to anywhere, recently divorced Stacia, a passenger on a broken-down bus, gets caught in a bizarre and violent turf war between serial killers.
Director:Larry Cohen
Writer:David J. Schow
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Director:Larry Cohen
Writer:David J. Schow
6.4/10(3784 votes)
#9 - Pelts
S2:E612/1/2006
Pelts is an erotic tale about stolen raccoon pelts that take violent revenge on those who seek to wear them.
Director:Dario Argento
Writer:Matt Venne
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Director:Dario Argento
Writer:Matt Venne
6.3/10(6936 votes)
#10 - Jenifer
S1:E411/18/2005
Jenifer is a tale of a modern-day Lolita who with her good looks and charm destroys the bodies and souls of all the men who crosses her path. Police officer Frank unfortunately saves this young girls life only to find out in this horrific twist that that no good deed goes unpunished.
Director:Dario Argento
Writer:Steven Weber
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Director:Dario Argento
Writer:Steven Weber
6.3/10(4330 votes)
#11 - Sick Girl
S1:E101/13/2006
Sick Girl is a comedy thriller about an insect scientist and the fly in the ointment that threatens her lesbian love affair.
Director:Lucky McKee
Writers:Sean Hood, Lucky McKee
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Director:Lucky McKee
Writers:Sean Hood, Lucky McKee
6.3/10(2875 votes)
#12 - The Screwfly Solution
S2:E712/8/2006
Deadly virus infects the nation, that turns men into psychotic killers who attack every woman they see. A housewife and her daughter try to survive this madness.
Director:Joe Dante
Writer:Sam Hamm
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Director:Joe Dante
Writer:Sam Hamm
6.3/10(2411 votes)
#13 - Right to Die
S2:E91/5/2007
Her flesh has been burned and her body remains in coma but from a medical perspective, Abby is still alive. Her husband Cliff is determined to get a court order to stop her pain. But Abby's condition is worsening, she repeatedly flat-lines and is revived. Each time her body dies, her spirit grows stronger attacking those that have taken advantage of her plight.
Director:Rob Schmidt
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Rob Schmidt
Writer:Unknown
6.1/10(4795 votes)
#14 - Homecoming
S1:E612/2/2005
In this contemporary political satire, The living dead have been found tampering with the Presidential election. Fear sweeps the nation as the media uncover this chilling fact which leads to widespread panic.
Director:Joe Dante
Writer:Sam Hamm
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Director:Joe Dante
Writer:Sam Hamm
6.1/10(3341 votes)
#15 - Haeckel's Tale
S1:E121/27/2006
Based on Clive Barker's short story. While on his way to see his sick father, Ernest Haeckel takes shelter with an elderly man and his young wife but soon discovers their horrible secret...
Director:John McNaughton
Writer:Mick Garris
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Director:John McNaughton
Writer:Mick Garris
6.1/10(2585 votes)
#16 - Sounds Like
S2:E411/17/2006
Based on a short story by Mike O’Driscoll. 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.
Director:Brad Anderson
Writer:Brad Anderson
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Director:Brad Anderson
Writer:Brad Anderson
5.7/10(2333 votes)
#17 - Valerie on the Stairs
S2:E812/29/2006
Rob Hanisee is a writer that has a strange apparition. Beautiful, naked and mysterious, Valerie might be the muse that Rob has always searched for - or the manifestation of a much darker force. Blood and death follow Rob across the line between life and art.
Director:Mick Garris
Writer:Mick Garris
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Director:Mick Garris
Writer:Mick Garris
5.6/10(3888 votes)
#18 - Pro-Life
S2:E511/24/2006
Pro-Life tells the story of a young girl trapped inside a clinic who discovers the only thing more dangerous than her pursuers is the demonic secret that she carries within her.
Director:John Carpenter
Writers:Drew McWeeny, Rebecca Swan
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Director:John Carpenter
Writers:Drew McWeeny, Rebecca Swan
5.4/10(2370 votes)
#19 - The Washingtonians
S2:E121/26/2007
"The Washingtonians" is the twelfth episode of the second season of Masters of Horror, directed by Peter Medak. The episode is based on the short story written by Bentley Little. It details a man discovering a shocking secret about George Washington that could shatter the world's view of America forever, and the murderous brotherhood sworn to keep the secret safe.
Director:Peter Medak
Writers:Richard Chizmar, Johnathon Schaech
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Director:Peter Medak
Writers:Richard Chizmar, Johnathon Schaech
5.3/10(2419 votes)
#20 - We All Scream for Ice Cream
S2:E101/12/2007
A long time ago, a prank by a gang of kids known as the West End Bunch went wrong. Now grown up and a parent himself, former West-Ender Layne Banixter witnesses the friends of his youth murdered by their own children, who have turned against them. To save his own family Layne must face his fears and realize that sometimes the sins of the fathers are visited upon the son.
Director:Tom Holland
Writer:David J. Schow
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Director:Tom Holland
Writer:David J. Schow
5.2/10(2900 votes)
#21 - The Damned Thing
S2:E110/27/2006
The Damned Thing is the apocalyptic tale of a mysterious creature that terrorizes a small Texas town.
Director:Tobe Hooper
Writer:Richard Christian Matheson
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Director:Tobe Hooper
Writer:Richard Christian Matheson
5.1/10(1973 votes)
#22 - Dream Cruise
S2:E132/2/2007
Dream Cruise is the thirteenth and final episode of the second season of Masters of Horror, directed by Norio Tsuruta.
Director:Norio Tsuruta
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Norio Tsuruta
Writer:Unknown
5.1/10(2456 votes)
#23 - The V Word
S2:E311/10/2006
A lone vampire punishes two teenage boys who make the poor decision to break into a mortuary.
Director:Ernest R. Dickerson
Writer:Mick Garris
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Director:Ernest R. Dickerson
Writer:Mick Garris
5.1/10(3709 votes)
#24 - Chocolate
S1:E511/25/2005
Jamie, a newly divorced man who creates artificial flavours for the food industry, suddenly and inexplicably starts to experience brief and random flashes from someone - and somewhere - unknown: sight, sound, smell, touch. Learning that he's experiencing life through the senses of a mysterious woman, he begins to fall in love with her-without having met her. Eventually, he discovers a horrifying secret that binds him inexorably with the perfect woman in an erotic, horrifying dance of death.
Director:Mick Garris
Writer:Mick Garris
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Director:Mick Garris
Writer:Mick Garris
5.0/10(5010 votes)
#25 - Dance of the Dead
S1:E311/11/2005
This story revolves around a post-apocalyptic town where re-animated corpses of friends and enemies dance on stage for the few people who survived a nuclear holocaust. Peggy a naive girl learns of the dangers of the outside world and the sacrifices made to guarantee her survival.
Director:Tobe Hooper
Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Richard Matheson
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Director:Tobe Hooper
Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Richard Matheson