7.5/1010,048 votesLoading...#1 - Cigarette Burns
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/16/2005
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
Writer: Drew McWeeny, Rebecca Swan
7.1/103,522 votesLoading...#2 - Family
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/3/2006
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: N/A
6.7/102,625 votesLoading...#3 - The Black Cat
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/19/2007
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
6.5/106,089 votesLoading...#4 - Incident On and Off a Mountain Road
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/28/2005
When Ellen's (Bree Turner) car breaks down on a deserted mountain road in the middle of nowhere, she encounters a monster-like man who is intent on killing her. Ellen will not go down without a fight and the game of cat-and-mouse soon shifts as Ellen fights back.
Director: Don Coscarelli
Writer: Joe R. Lansdale, Don Coscarelli
6.5/105,513 votesLoading...#5 - Dreams in the Witch House
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/4/2005
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
Writer: Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli
6.4/104,398 votesLoading...#6 - Deer Woman
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/9/2005
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
6.4/103,745 votesLoading...#7 - Fair Haired Child
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/6/2006
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
6.4/103,582 votesLoading...#8 - Pelts
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/1/2006
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
6.3/106,590 votesLoading...#9 - Jenifer
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/18/2005
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
6.3/104,105 votesLoading...#10 - Sick Girl
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/2006
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
Writer: Lucky McKee, Sean Hood
6.3/103,710 votesLoading...#11 - Pick Me Up
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/2006
This bloody tale will give you an interesting twist to hitchhiking. Both driver and passenger have a little surprise for the 25 year old heroine of the story
Director: Larry Cohen
Writer: David J. Schow
6.3/102,256 votesLoading...#13 - Right to Die
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/5/2007
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: N/A
6.1/104,558 votesLoading...
6.1/103,154 votesLoading...#15 - Haeckel's Tale
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/2006
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
6.1/102,411 votesLoading...#16 - Sounds Like
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/17/2006
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
5.7/102,180 votesLoading...#17 - Valerie on the Stairs
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/29/2006
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
5.6/103,654 votesLoading...#18 - Pro-Life
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/24/2006
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
Writer: Drew McWeeny, Rebecca Swan
5.4/102,211 votesLoading...#19 - The Washingtonians
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/26/2007
"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
Writer: Johnathon Schaech, Richard Chizmar
5.3/102,276 votesLoading...#20 - We All Scream for Ice Cream
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/12/2007
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
5.2/102,705 votesLoading...#21 - The Damned Thing
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/2006
The Damned Thing is the apocalyptic tale of a mysterious creature that terrorizes a small Texas town.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
5.1/102,292 votesLoading...#22 - The V Word
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/2006
A lone vampire punishes two teenage boys who make the poor decision to break into a mortuary.
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Writer: Mick Garris
5.1/101,843 votesLoading...#23 - Dream Cruise
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/2007
Dream Cruise is the thirteenth and final episode of the second season of Masters of Horror, directed by Norio Tsuruta.
Director: Norio Tsuruta
Writer: N/A
5.0/104,711 votesLoading...#24 - Dance of the Dead
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/11/2005
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 naïve girl learns of the dangers of the outside world and the sacrifices made to guarantee her survival.
Director: Tobe Hooper
5.0/103,478 votesLoading...#25 - Chocolate
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/25/2005
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
The Best Episodes of Masters of Horror
Every episode of Masters of Horror ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Masters of Horror!
An anthology series written and directed by the most famous names in horror.
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Best Episodes Summary
"Cigarette Burns" is the best rated episode of "Masters of Horror". It scored 7.5/10 based on 10048 votes. Directed by John Carpenter and written by Drew McWeeny, Rebecca Swan, it aired on 12/16/2005. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Family".
