I bought Cigarette Burns and Pro-Life because I'm a huge John Carpenter fan. What I wouldn't give to spend a day with him. My daughter got me the first season for Christmas and I love it! The idea is great: It's one hour movies and it's the directors who are the stars. There is some great stuff here! Shock, suspense, camp, comedy, heartbreak, political satire, J-horror, it's all here! I will review all the episodes one at a time because I feel I can't lump them together. Some got me more then others but they are all entertaining. Isn't that what a horror movie is supposed to do?However I must point out there no good looking teenagers getting slaughtered by a guy in a mask. Good! I'm sick of that!

As a whole the TV series of wonderful and I hope they continue. It is rather refreshing to see films like these. Most often in the film industry, ESPECIALLY with horror films, directors must do certain things and follow unwritten rules if they want their full length film to be big budget and to become a feature film that airs in theaters.With this show, it gives some of the best horror directors of all time the change to really show what they can do. There are absolutely no limitations on which stories are being told. The director has complete control over his creation with out having to follow in rules that big feature films do. And with the exception of a few rules put on by Showtime, they also have freedom over how they tell the story too.But this is both a blessing and a curse as it makes the movies either hit or miss. There is no middle ground. The episode is either great of it is horrible. And this is solely do to directors' choices.For example, John Carpenter and Dario Argento have wonderfully horrific and captivating episodes. They tell the short story magnificently and create true horror master pieces. Yet John Landis' contributions can't make the par. He doesn't use his time wisely for the one hour that he is given and as a result his contributions are predictable and slightly cliché. And finally, Mick Garris has hit both sides. His film, Chocolate, from season one was just awful. Slow moving, dull, and predictable. But his episode from Season 2, Valerie on the Stairs, his terrific. Suspense, unpredictable ending, and very will filmed.As a whole though, this series has been wonderful and contains from beautiful gems of horror films that just never could have done as well if stretched beyond an hour or done as well if tried to turn into a big budget, profit earning film.

Hey,everybody!I'm a big horror fan,and after seeing two episodes of "Masters Of Horror",I'm not that impressed.Mind you,I've only seen "The Washingtonians"(I expected more out of Peter Medak,director of the classic "The Changeling"),also the one about the writer who moves in to an apartment building filled with hack writers,and is predestined to finish the story about a big bad demon and a girl,that is actually happening in the walls of the building(wow,that was bad!),and the one about the duelin' serial killers was good-great black humor-Michael Moriarty was worth some laughs.Anyhow,before I waste another $6,can anyone be so kind as to tell me which episode(s) are happening?I would really appreciate it.Thanks in advance-Tony

Some of the filmmakers who are participating in this series have made some really great films but they sure as heck are not showing much skill with this series. Particularly the writing. OK, the first season was somewhat better but these new episodes they are creating just stink. I'm a huge fan of horror and in my opinion the vast majority of these episodes are total garbage. Nothing new or genuinely interesting. Few of them are visually creative. It's just typical fabricated Hollywood crap, uninteresting, childish, poorly conceived and in some cases, flat out laughable. Much like Tales from the Crypt the only good thing this series has been offering is great nudity! Other then that this series blows hard. I get the impression sometimes that they hired a bunch of eighth-graders to write the episodes. Maybe they did.