After "Homecoming", barely mediocre episode of the first season, Joe Dante has big comeback in the second. Although "The Screwfly Solution" is a very disturbing movie with occasional gore, this is more SF drama than horror. Through the story of the virus epidemic, which turns sexual drive among men into an urge to exterminate the women, this film deals with topics such as misogyny, radical Islam, radical Christianity, domestic violence, global warming, bird flu, and the question of whether the human race is a parasite that the Earth should be freed of. Although you will not be frightened and forced to watch it through your fingers, the film maintains a decent level of tension and leaves a much deeper sense of fear and nausea than classical horror, as it deals with topics that we face on a daily basis in reality, and which, at least at the subconscious level, keep us in constant fear.8/10Near the end of the episode, there's a visually very impressive SF scene, which I can not describe without spoilers, but which is really shame to miss. And there's also Brandon from "Beverly Hills 90210" in the main male role. Watch it, you won't be disappointed.

This is a script that really could happen but to say it was a real horror story that goes a bit too far for me. The story itself and the acting was okay but for an entry into Masters Of Horror it lacked on horror. This episode opens with telling about an experiment were a disease was ended by turning flies into non active breeders. By doing so the disease was ended. Further into the story we move towards humanity were the females have to be killed to stop breeding. The males are out for a kill but one girl do survive dressed as a guy and it's up to her to survive. In that particular part we do have more of suspense then horror and towards the end it turns into some science-fiction story looking more like an episode for The X-Files in stead of Masters Of Horrors. But why it is shown here comes due the sometimes graphic violence toward women. But for me it just didn't work. Some will have problems with the fact about killing women and entering some messages about belief in a God and so on but the ending...what a turn-off.Gore 1,5/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

The Screwfly Solution was my first entry with the Masters of Horror series and it remains my favorite one. The idea to bring awesome directors together and allow them sixty and so minutes to tell their scary stories is brilliant and a gift for the horror fans everywhere. Although I loved every episode of the series, The Screwfly Solution won a special place in my heart. It may be the most compelling piece of paranoia driven end of the world theme I've ever seen. Although made for TV, it remains better than most of the flicks that tried to tackle the subject of the world coming to an end and how we would behave in such dreaded circumstances. Ihe story is beautifully told and never seems rushed. Director Joe Dante made good use of his sixty minutes to give us a beginning, a middle and a pessimistic ending, in this odd and scary homage to the old horror classics, with a mixture of an outbreak spreading through the world fast (Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later), people revealing their ugliest facades under stress (Day of the Dead, Deliverance) and the fact that human being, not being able to take care of themselves, will have to be exterminated by a superior, otherworldly race of beings, so Earth, a naturally beautiful place, may survive and go on. Elliot Gould's performance was a joy to watch, outstanding supporting performance by him, a sympathetic older character who knows too well where the world is heading.

I'm conflicted about this MOH. On one hand, its original source material was clearly supposed to deal with gender relations and the fears of a sex which ultimately always has to wonder (maybe not so deep down inside) whether that nice, well-mannered fellow buying them a drink might be an axe murderer. On the other, we have gratuitous sex scenes and a nice long look at a titty bar, ostensibly because it's a murder scene. So clearly there's a conflict of interest here.Ultimately, it's the idiocy of all the characters that really ruined it for me. The wife is a blubbering mess who can't control her bratty daughter, the bratty daughter is obviously pumped so full of faux Spice Girls feminism she thinks that shaking her ass in front of potentially murderous construction workers is a good idea, and the husband ultimately refuses to take a shot that could protect him from the screaming crazies (a shot I'm assuming is some form of chemical castration) because "I'd know if I had psychotic symptoms... right?" Basically, the women are mostly portrayed as screaming hysterics, and men as crazed religious freaks. The only redeeming character is Elliot Gould as Barney, a kindly gay man and the only purveyor of sanity in crazy town -- and he doesn't even have that big a role. Basically, this is like an episode of The Outer Limits -- ignore the fact that all the characters are incompetent idiots, and you might be able to enjoy the underlying idea.