Top 3

1. Cigarette Burns (Udo Kier did great ):)
2. Deer Woman (Laughed my ass off ):D
3.Jenifer :eek:

All around a great show... Can't wait the season 2.

Ravenous would've been a better film, in my opinion, without the side-humor.

5 days until the next 2-pack comes out, Im rather excited

Update:

Ok, so Ive seen/bought all 6 DVDs that have been released so far. Here are my rankings:

Cigarette Burns
Deer Woman
Dreams in the Witch House
Chocolate
Incident On and Off A Mountain Road
Sick Girl

Despite being at the bottom of the list, Ive really enjoyed all six. Sick Girl was weak by comparison, but still good.

Master of Horror
 

Are you excited for the new season ? I though last seasons best episode had to be Takashi Miike's "Imprint", but Jenifer gave me the creeps her face :eek: gave me nightmares for a week. The cards that came with every DVD amazing I love them ! I'm working on a project to do something with them now. Is my other demented Horror Obsessed lunatics happy with this TV show so far?

i didn't see every episode last season, but the ones i did i wans't impressed wit them at all....

Dont get Showtime, so I still havent seen all of season 1 (waiting on the DVDs for 3 of them)

Based on the DVDs, Im really loving this series. Carpenter's Cigarette Burns is my favourite so far.

I don't have showtime either so i'm still waiting on the three also, I can't wait I love the series. Carpenters was the first one I seen and that's what got me hooked. I thought Coscarelli's was a pretty decent as well, the hanging eyeless corpses in the guys yard :eek:

Imprint was tight, thats the only one i got though.

2nd weakest so far, IMO. Check out the rest.

By the way, Im planning to buy Pick Me Up this evening.

2nd weakest ? Send me some of those drugs you are taking please :D, is that why it was banned ? Look at the shit that guy showed :eek: for days. :p

Just seemed to me like he wanted to put as much sick shit in as possible, at the expense of everything else. The plot was shit, made even worse by the utterly pointless method of telling the story. And just look at the lead actor...ouch. Ouch.

Gore, violence, torture and all that other "disturbing" content has it's place, for sure...but it cant hold up a movie on it's own.

Now that I think about it, I actually think I enjoyed Homecoming a bit more, so you're right...this isnt the 2nd weakest:p

Same with me. I've only seen 4 episodes of the first season and I wasn't impressed in the least. However, the previews for season 2 do look damn good. I'll definitely be in front of mt TV on friday.

Well only two more to come out now on DVD for the first season. Yes season two looks pretty kick ass, I heard it was all monsters this season, instead of naked female killers !

explain something to me: why does everyone hate homecoming so much ? i enjoyed it a lot. one of my favorite episodes, for a very different reason than the others.

I never said that I hated it. I really enjoyed it, just not as much as most of the rest of the series.

It was really original idea, and pretty well executed...the politics turned me off of it a bit though. Nothing wrong with using a horror film to make a point, but this one was WAY to blatant and worn out IMO.

The New Season
 

I am definately excited about the upcoming season starting on Friday October 27th. With each installment we will get to see another creative vision of the legends of modern horror. Each one will be unique and objectively creepy.... taking us into a world of terror. With me being such a fan of Egdar Allan Poe ; I am eagerly waiting for Showtime to air "The Black Cat". It will be under the direction of Stuart Gordon ("The Re-Animator") and Jeffrey Combs starring in will air sometime during this season.:cool:

I really thought Home Coming was a decent flick I like how they did a tribute sort of deal to Romero !

I found "Homecoming" pretty damn corny, actually.

So anyone see tonight episode ? How was it ?

Just watched Tobe Hooper's "The Damned Thing"

great, creepy opening
sloppy character work
nice mystery
excellent gore factor
overall sense of dread
very strange (disappointing?) resolution
excellent ending
Ted Raimi:)

a solid addition to the series

The only one I saw from last season was "Incident on and off a Mountain Road." I thought it was very weak. I read several reviews from the other episodes and decided that the series probably wasn't worth viewing. I may rent some of the DVDs at some point, but I'm not expecting much.

At the very least you have to rent (buy) John Carpenter's episode. IMO it ranks among his best work.

Okay, I'll check it out. What is it called?

Cigarette Burns

You can get it packaged on the same disc with Stuart Gordon's "Dreams in the Witch House"...not quite as good as Cigarette Burns, but still a great episode.

Being Canadian, it premieres here in one hour on SCREAM. Planning on watching it, and not loosing an OUNCE of sleep. Time change and all.

I loved the dark, serious tone throughout The Damned Thing (something missing from far too many episodes last year), the lack of any p**s poor acting (see Billy Drago in Imprint, the black cop in Deer Woman, etc.), and the way this one ended. I did dislike the CGI considering I was positive we weren't actually going to get a good look at the Damned Thing. As others have said on various boards, this was only a minor complaint. I'd give this an 8/10, which is as good or better than any rating I gave for an episode all of last season. I just hope this isn't the best episode THIS season. The fun part will be waiting, watching, and seeing...

Wow sounds pretty good, :mad: although I am going to had to wait untill it coms on dvd :mad:

SLIGHT SPOILERS

Eh... I just watched The Damned Thing last night. During a wind & rain storm at that. One might say it's the perfect setting. For me, the episode wasn't all that great. Throwaway, I wouldn't bother purchusing a DVD copy myself.

The acting was weak in a lot of places, and pieces of the dialogue just stuck out like a sore thumb. The gore was really great, and there was a lot of it. The hammer-to-the-head scene made me cringe a little, mainly the scrapping noises the backside made. No complaints in that department. What really bothered me though was the ending. First, WTF at showing the "monster" formed out of oil. Just completely retarded without even acting as a comedic factor. The whole compus thing at the very end, with a direct cut to credits afterwards also had me WTF???'ing outloud. It didn't click with me. I didn't understand it. I'm assuming it caught up to them, but why the hell did the compus freak out? I dunno. I'm not even a fan of this type of "break-down" horror in the first place (or movies where the monster is shown when they don't have the budget to do it properly), so perhaps those who are might like it better. I can't see anyone liking the ending though. Serious throughout, and then WHAM. Something just idiotic pops up, literally, from the ground.

6/10 for me. Average.
The preview for next week looks a LOT better.
Fun, comedic, grimm & gross, T&A-filled with a good cast.
Here's hoping for a better installment.

reply
 

I also watched "The Damned Thing". I liked Tobe Hooper's cinematic direction. It had an edgy mystery that had a great opening and ending. Sean Patrick Flannery did a campy characterzation as sherriff Kevin Reddle. I think he did a perfect job of assuming and creating the character to go with the tale.

Solid first episode. Better than all four of the first season episodes I've seen.

i love this show!!:)

Did anyone catch "Family" tonight? I learned several things:

1. Meredith Monroe didn't talk and act like that on Dawson's Creek! :eek: ;)
2. George Wendt has eaten well since Cheers. :D
3. For some reason, the "perfect neighborhood" reminded me of of the X-Files episode where Mulder and Scully go undercover as husband and wife
4. Masters of Horror appears to be moving into a "less comedy, more horror" mode, and I like it. Keep that shit up! EDIT: I know, I know, it's Landis and some comedy has to be in there or it wouldn't be him, but if Landis is making something this dark, it's gotta mean good things for this series.

As for "Family", I thought it would have been upper tier if placed in among last season's episodes. I'd give it probably a 7/10, and I liked the ending. I "sort of" called it, or at least I caught myself thinking it, before it actually happened.

Family

yes, a bit predictable, but good, dark fun. The humor allows the episode to really explore some wonderfully wicked material. Good show, the season is staring off on two solid feet.

Can't wait to see what Stuart Gordon does withPoe's "The Black Cat."

Same here. I'm a big fan of Poe, Lovecraft, and Bierce, so Masters of Horror is keeping me happy as far as that goes.

I'll be watching this tonight. :) Hope it's better then the last installment as far as an ending goes.

I do not get showtime so I have to wait for the dvds, so far I have 11 of the 13 from season 1. I am very pleased with this seris and I hope they continue to make them. I just finished watching Dance of the Dead, which makes you actually stop to think because it is a "Political" story, which does have a ending you can see coming from 25miles ahead. I also just finished Pick me up I thought it was a great story as well except the ending I think took it over a bit, but it was unpredicitable, and something new I didn't see that coming at all.

Family

Much better this time, thoroughly enjoyed it. I had heard somewhere that it was very predictable, so the entire time I was trying to guess what would happen next. I didn't see THAT twist coming, but I know I should have! Makes it all the more better.

Cant find Pick Me Up ANYWHERE around here...ordered it from CD Plus though, hopefully it'll be in soon.