Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Masters of Horror - Season 1 (2006)

Disclaimer : I will not review every episode (something i'm not in favor of while reviewing a series). I prefer to rate the series as a whole.

Rating : Entertaining but meant only for true horror fans

Directors Featured : Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria) , John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) and other celebrated horror directors

Story : Some of the best horror film directors and writers have come together to prepare this anthology of 1 hour long horror films. You have everything from psycho killers to zombies, from the scary to the twisted to the satirical.

Review : Personally I am a big fan of the horror genre. After watching a lot of horror movies I believe more bad movies are made in this genre than any other but I still love watching horror movies. So naturally when I heard of Masters of Horror I was very excited. Just finished watching the first season I can say that I'm not disappointed.

Sure not all the stories are scary (John Carpenters film coming the closest to being scary) but they are a lot of fun. Horror fans will notice a lot of tributes paid to some of the greatest horror films and film makers throughout the series.

However be warned that there is a lot of gore, lots of nudity and some very disturbing content (especially the last segment directed by acclaimed Japanese director Takashi Miike - Ichi the Killer and 13 Assassins fame)


Masters of Horror (2005) on IMDb

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