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The Worst Episodes of Masters of Horror

Every episode of Masters of Horror ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Masters of Horror!

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Dance of the Dead" is the worst rated episode of "Masters of Horror". It scored 5/10 based on 4712 votes. Directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Richard Christian Matheson, Richard Matheson, it aired on 11/11/2005. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Chocolate".

  • Dance of the Dead
    5.0/104,712 votes
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    #1 - 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

    Writer: Richard Christian Matheson, Richard Matheson

  • Chocolate
    5.0/103,477 votes
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    #2 - 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 V Word
    5.1/102,291 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • Dream Cruise
    5.1/101,840 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • The Damned Thing
    5.2/102,703 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • We All Scream for Ice Cream
    5.3/102,272 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • The Washingtonians
    5.4/102,208 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Pro-Life
    5.6/103,650 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Valerie on the Stairs
    5.7/102,178 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • Homecoming
    6.1/104,557 votes
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    #10 - Homecoming

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/2/2005

    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

  • Haeckel's Tale
    6.1/103,152 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • Sounds Like
    6.1/102,408 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • Jenifer
    6.3/106,587 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Sick Girl
    6.3/104,099 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • Pick Me Up
    6.3/103,709 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • The Screwfly Solution
    6.3/102,697 votes
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    #16 - The Screwfly Solution

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/8/2006

    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

  • Right to Die
    6.3/102,250 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • Deer Woman
    6.4/104,397 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • Fair Haired Child
    6.4/103,742 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • Pelts
    6.4/103,579 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • Incident On and Off a Mountain Road
    6.5/106,083 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • Dreams in the Witch House
    6.5/105,513 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • The Black Cat
    6.7/102,622 votes
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    #23 - 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

  • Family
    7.1/103,516 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • Cigarette Burns
    7.5/1010,043 votes
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    #25 - 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