I noticed that Wes Craven's name was not on the list. If you ask me, he is a little too overrated in his later years. I love and own his timeless classics like Last House on the Left, The Hills have Eyes, Nightmare on Elm Street 1, etc, etc, but I wonder if he still has any of his creative genius left for the 21st century. After watching inane dribble like Scream (sorry, but I hated it), Dracula 2000, and Cursed, I'm getting pessimistic. Does anyone agree?
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Fangoria.com got some more updates on the Masters of Horror episodes The more I hear them more I can’t wait for October to hurry up and get here. If you don’t have Showtime yet, GET IT!!!!
MASTERS OF HORROR creator Mick Garris tipped Fango off to some exciting casting news on his upcoming MASTERS OF HORROR series, debuting this fall on Showtime. Jon (THE CLOSER) Tenney and Robert Picardo are starring in director Joe Dante’s episode HOMECOMING, which began lensing in Vancouver this week. Best known for STAR TREK: VOYAGER, Picardo has also appeared in many of Dante’s films, including THE HOWLING, MATINEE and EXPLORERS. Before that installment, Tobe Hooper lined up Robert Englund (a vet of Hooper’s EATEN ALIVE, THE MANGLER and FREDDY’S NIGHTMARES pilot) and Jonathan (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE remake) Tucker for his DANCE OF THE DEAD, while Norman (BLADE II) Reedus and fan favorite Udo (BLADE) Kier topline John Carpenter’s CIGARETTE BURNS. Another familiar female fright star will take centerstage in William Malone’s FAIR HAIRED CHILD, though the actress had not been officially signed at presstime.
There’s more your gonna want to read go check out the rest of the story over at Fangoria.com
MASTERS OF HORROR DEBUT DATE
Source: Dread Central / Creature Corner
Dread Central seems to have a direct line to all that is happening with Masters of Horror and today they got the news from Mick Garris that October 28th will be the big debut for the much heralded series.
If you haven’t yet done so your gonna want to head right on over to the series official website and check out all the coolness, including that kick ass trailer that we told you about
Again, Masters of Horror will air on Showtime beginning October 28th
Romero is out, and McNaughton is in for Masters of Horror
Fangoria has confirmed that Romero has indeed bowed out of Masters of Horror due to an “insurmountable scheduling problem.” Although he will not be directing an episode IDT is trying to get him involoved in some way.
To replace Romero in the line up "Henry: The Portrait of a Serial Killer" director John McNaughton will be on board. McNaughton will direct Haeckel's Tale which was adapted by Mick Garis from an original Clive Barker tale.
The short which was originally slated to be directed by Roger Corman goes something like this: When Ernest Haeckel seeks shelter from the wilderness in a secluded cabin in the New England countryside, he is given one explicit instruction: no matter what he hears, he cannot go outside. As the cries of an unseen baby intermix with horrifying guttural moans, Haeckel disobeys his host and becomes embroiled in an orgy of the undead.
MASTERS OF HORROR DEBUT EPISODE ANNOUNCED
Source: Fangoria.com
According to Fangoria.com ,expect to see Don Coscarelli’s Incident On and Off a Mountain Road as the debut episode of the much anticipated Showtime series Masters Of Horror which is slated for an Oct. 28th debut on the network.
That gentleman you see in the picture is none other than the Tall Man himself, Angus Scrimm. He plays the room mate of someone known as Moonface. The story itself was adapted by Coscarelli and Stephen Romano from a story by Joe Lansdale.
Mitch Garris talks about The Masters of Horror :
Recently Joshua Jabcuga from Movie Poop Shoot interviewed Mitch Garris about all things related to Masters of Horror.
Anchor Bay’s parent company IDT is actually financing the show then Showtime came in as a partner after the fact. Anchor Bay will be releasing the DVDs. They should start hitting shelves in February. In addition to the show, there will be close to an hour’s worth of behind-the-scenes material.
Other than ‘Chocolate’ Garris has another writing credit on the series. He has adapted ‘Haekel’s Tale’, a Clive Barker short story. The short story will be published in the upcoming anthology Dark Delicacies in October.
Garris wrote ‘Chocolate’ over twenty years ago.
Argento’s piece will include a score from GOBLIN!
Unofficially they are already looking at another season for Master’s with the likes of F. Paul Wilson!
Read the full interview here!
Some DVD info and...
Behind the scenes footage of "Chocolate"
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Only 17 days until the first episode.
Masters of Horror Musical Tour Dates
As the debut of Showtime’s MASTERS OF HORROR nears, a concert tour gets underway next month in support of Immortal Records’ double-CD MASTERS compilation (which we first reported on here). The tour, which commences November 18 in Des Moines, Iowa, will be headlined by Mudvayne (which also has a key track on the SAW II soundtrack; see item here), with support slots going to Sevendust, 10 Years and Bobaflex. While only nine dates have been announced thus far (see below), shows for the following cities will be confirmed soon; Detroit; Atlanta; Miami; San Antonio; Dallas; Oklahoma City; Binghamton, NY; Portland, ME; Atlantic City, NJ; Providence, RI; Sayreville, NJ; Columbus, OH; Wichita, KS and Kansas City, MO. The MASTERS OF HORROR Tour is scheduled to come to an end on December 20.
Current dates, according to MTV.com, are as follows:
Nov. 18—West Des Moines, IA: Val Air Ballroom
Nov. 19—Omaha, NE: Sokel Auditorium
Nov. 20—Springfield, MO: Oasis Convention Center
Nov. 22—Chicago, IL: Congress Theater
Nov. 23—Peoria, IL: East Peoria Convention Center
Nov. 25—Indianapolis, IN: Murat Egyptian Room
Nov. 30—New York, NY: Nokia Theater Times Square
Nov. 11—Denver, CO: Fillmore Auditorium
Nov. 14—Lake Buena Vista, FL: House of Blues
8 days to go!
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You Want to See Masters of Horror?
Well, if we are to believe Dread Central this weekend everyone with Cable will be getting a free sneak preview of Showtime. I would definetly check with your local cable provider and see what channel and times this preview will be available.
If this is true this weekend will be Stuart Gordons tale "Dreams in the Witch House". The story follows Walter Gilman (Ezra Godden), a college student studying interdimensional string theory, rents a garret in a run-down building in the old New England town of Arkham. Haunted by terrifying nightmares that involve a witch, a supernatural rodent and perhaps Satan himself, Walter starts to lose his grip on reality. He begins to believe his string theory studies have uncovered a portal into a parallel universe rife with diabolical forces gathering to sacrifice his neighbor's infant. As Walter struggles to prevent this atrocity, it becomes less clear if he will save the child or become its unwitting murderer himself.
Takashi Miike's IMPRINT
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Masters of Horror has just started on Showtime.. and it was off to a decent start with Don Coscarelli’s "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" and now Fangoria has reported that IDW Publishing is going to continue to feed our appetite for all things MOH with a limited run, 12 issue comic that will debut in December 2005.
First up (to be immortalized in comic book format) will be none other than Coscarelli’s "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road"
Other issues will include:
Stuart Gordon's "Dreams in the Witch-House"
"Deer Woman" by John Landis
John Carpenter's "Cigarette Burns."
For more information on the MOH comic, as well as a second panel for "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road", click here.
Over at the official John Carpenter website, you can now take a deeper looking into his upcoming Masters of Horror installment, titled "CIGARETTE BURNS."
The short storie is about: Jimmy Sweetman knows how to find rare film prints. However, nothing could prepare him for the daunting search for "Le Fin du Monde," a film allegedly shown only once and rumored to have driven its audience into a murderous frenzy before the theater mysteriously erupted in flames.
Working for a shadowy patron, Jimmy's increasingly obsessive investigation becomes nightmarish and deadly. Finally he discovers "Le Fin du Monde"'s infamy is well deserved.
This supernatural "Chinatown" is a chilling look at the power of cinema and the lengths to which we will go to satiate our private demons.