- 6.5/106,099 votes
#1 - 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
- 6.5/105,525 votes
#2 - 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
- 5.0/104,722 votes
#3 - 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
- 6.3/106,600 votes
#4 - 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
- 5.0/103,490 votes
#5 - 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
- 6.1/104,567 votes
- 6.4/104,409 votes
#7 - 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
- 7.5/1010,063 votes
#8 - 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
- 6.4/103,750 votes
#9 - 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
- 6.3/104,113 votes
#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
- 6.3/103,719 votes
#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
- 6.1/103,163 votes
#12 - 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
The Best Episodes of Masters of Horror Season 1
Every episode of Masters of Horror Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Masters of Horror Season 1!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" is the best rated episode of "Masters of Horror" season 1. It scored 6.5/10 based on 6099 votes. Directed by Don Coscarelli and written by Joe R. Lansdale, Don Coscarelli, it aired on 10/28/2005. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Dreams in the Witch House".