This is the coolest series of short stories since Tales From The Crypt! I love I scream You Screm We All Scream For Icecream. Awsome!

Awesome series! Some of my faves:
Cigarette Burns-John Carpenter
Imprint-Takaashi Miike
Sick Girl-Lucky McKee
Pick me Up-Larry Cohen
Family-John Landis
Right to Die-Rob Schmidt
The Washingtonians-Peter Medak(the only bentley little story put on a screen)
They just dont make television like this anymore. This was a great idea fathered by Mick Garris.

Edited:7/29/2010 7:21:47 PM (beerwench)

It was a brilliant idea but I hate Mick Garris's shorts.  Season 1 is the ultimate, I have it on Blu-ray after that it was all downhill sadly. 

The second season was pretty weak to me.  The first season was awesome.  Top 5:

1. Cigarette Burns by John Carpenter
2. The Fair-Haired Child by William Malone
3. Incident on and off a Mountain Road by Don Coscarelli
4. Deer Woman by John Landis
5. Pick me Up by Larry Cohen

I liked Imprint by Miike too, but man...just when I thought Audition, Visitor Q and Ichi were brutal...Imprint is easily his most graphic to date and no wonder why Showtime couldn't air it. 

I'll throw series two a bone:  I liked Brad Anderson's Sounds Like and Argento's Pelts  

Great show it had potential, its a shame it didn't last a few more seasons.


Favs:
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Dreams In The Witch House
Cigarette Burns
Imprint
The Fair Haired-Child
The V Word
Jenifer
Incident On & Off A Mountain Road
The Black Cat
Valerie On The Stairs
The Washingtonians
We All Scream For Ice-Cream

Cigarette Burns just really blew me away.  I think it's the darkest thing Carpenter's ever done.  It actually shocked me.  It was a little familiar, kind of echoes Polanski's "The Ninth Gate" but it is brilliant. 

The Fair Haired Child is just so creepy and enjoyable.  I wish I had had time to meet Malone at HHW but I just couldn't get away from the booth long enough.

On and Off a Mountain Road is one that a lot of people usually frown about but I love Landsdale but the things I really love about this film is A:  The fact that we see a young female victim (a beautiful one at that) not act like a victim at all--but be a total fighter, giving Moonface a real problem.  I thought that was brilliant to see her in flashbacks showing us where she came from and why she's a "survivor."  This film definitely influenced me when writing my own film.  And B:  Ethan Embry playing a total scary badass survivalist and I actually believed him.  This is before "Vacancy" so seeing baby faced nice guy Ethan playing such a dark character and pulling it off was impressive to me. 

Really loved "Sick Girl" and "Jenifer" .

loved season 1, season was a bit weak, but i felt the spin off "fear itself" was very creative.

Jenifer made me puke a little in my mouth.
Too bad Fear Itself isn't coming back. I asked Mick Garris about it at Famous Monsters and it was a creative issue regarding censorship. . . being on network TV and everything. I thought they had some good stuff though.

I liked Imprint by Miike too, but man...just when I thought Audition, Visitor Q and Ichi were brutal...Imprint is easily his most graphic to date and no wonder why Showtime couldn't air it.


That one was really hard-core - like the curbing scene in American History X, it has some of the most effective (read - gross out inducing) use of sound to make the scene more horrific. 

I have mixed feelings about this show - for every gem like The Fair-Haired Child, there was a dud like Hakel's Tale.  Sometimes the best thing about the show was the credit sequence.  Although to be fair, that could be said for Tales from the Crypt also.

I watched Jenifer last night and it was awesome. Right up my alley. This was the first time i watched a Master of Horror......Are they episodes or short movies?

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They are considered short films, not really television episodes from what I recall.