The Worst Episodes of Masters of Horror

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

Writer: Richard Christian Matheson, Richard Matheson

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

A lone vampire punishes two teenage boys who make the poor decision to break into a mortuary.

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson

Writer: Mick Garris

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

The Damned Thing is the apocalyptic tale of a mysterious creature that terrorizes a small Texas town.

Director: Tobe Hooper

Writer: Richard Christian Matheson

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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