The second season of Showtime's horror anthology series, Masters of Horror, begins tonight with a segment titled "The Damned Thing", directed by the man who brought the world The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergiest (I'm being nice by not mentioning anything from the past 20 years), Tobe Hooper.
I've seen maybe about half of the episodes from the show's first season and, as the genre usually tends to offer, the results are all over the map. But there are directors here that - occasionally - represent the cream of the crop for horror fans. Dario Argento, Takashi Miike, John Carpenter, Hooper, Joe Dante (whose episode from the first season, titled "Homecoming", was the best of the season)...
But what's got me most excited about the upcoming season is that Brad Anderson, the director of the vastly underrated Session 9 and The Machinist is directing an episode - called "Sounds Like" and described as "“The Tell-Tale Heart” meets The Conversation" - which airs on November 17th. I loved Session 9 (enough to place it 6th on my Top 7 Scares in the Past 7 Years list), and while I thought The Machinist got a bit derailed by the distraction that was Christian Bale's massive weight-loss, it was still a film oozing with an atmosphere of real menace. So his is the episode I'm most looking forward to.
Still, the fact that this series even exists and gives these filmmakers the opportunity to do these short and quick lil' stories is reason enough to wanna give Showtime a big ol' pat on the back. Ever since Buffy and Angel left the air, there's not been nearly enough good scares on the air.
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I've seen maybe about half of the episodes from the show's first season and, as the genre usually tends to offer, the results are all over the map. But there are directors here that - occasionally - represent the cream of the crop for horror fans. Dario Argento, Takashi Miike, John Carpenter, Hooper, Joe Dante (whose episode from the first season, titled "Homecoming", was the best of the season)...
But what's got me most excited about the upcoming season is that Brad Anderson, the director of the vastly underrated Session 9 and The Machinist is directing an episode - called "Sounds Like" and described as "“The Tell-Tale Heart” meets The Conversation" - which airs on November 17th. I loved Session 9 (enough to place it 6th on my Top 7 Scares in the Past 7 Years list), and while I thought The Machinist got a bit derailed by the distraction that was Christian Bale's massive weight-loss, it was still a film oozing with an atmosphere of real menace. So his is the episode I'm most looking forward to.Still, the fact that this series even exists and gives these filmmakers the opportunity to do these short and quick lil' stories is reason enough to wanna give Showtime a big ol' pat on the back. Ever since Buffy and Angel left the air, there's not been nearly enough good scares on the air.
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