An anthology series written and directed by the most famous names in horror.
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Episodes
1. Incident On and Off a Mountain Road
While driving at night on a mountain road, Ellen gets distracted and hits an abandoned car. When she tries to get help, she is attacked by a backwoods killer and must fight to stay alive.
2. Dreams in the Witch House
Walter Gilman, a college student rents a loft in a building in the New England town of Arkham. While studying interdimensional string theory at college he is haunted by nightmares of a 17th century witch and her rat with a human face. He must prevent the death of his neighbour's baby at the hands of these forces while it's possible he could become the murderer himself.
3. Dance of the Dead
This story revolves around a post-apocalyptic town where re-animated corpses of friends and enemies dance on stage for the few people who survived a nuclear holocaust. Peggy a naive girl learns of the dangers of the outside world and the sacrifices made to guarantee her survival.
4. Jenifer
Jenifer is a tale of a modern-day Lolita who with her good looks and charm destroys the bodies and souls of all the men who crosses her path. Police officer Frank unfortunately saves this young girls life only to find out in this horrific twist that that no good deed goes unpunished.
5. Chocolate
Jamie, a newly divorced man who creates artificial flavours for the food industry, suddenly and inexplicably starts to experience brief and random flashes from someone - and somewhere - unknown: sight, sound, smell, touch. Learning that he's experiencing life through the senses of a mysterious woman, he begins to fall in love with her-without having met her. Eventually, he discovers a horrifying secret that binds him inexorably with the perfect woman in an erotic, horrifying dance of death.
6. Homecoming
In this contemporary political satire, The living dead have been found tampering with the Presidential election. Fear sweeps the nation as the media uncover this chilling fact which leads to widespread panic.
7. Deer Woman
In this horror comedy, A set of peculiar murders leads sceptical detective Dwight Faraday to suspect that an ancient Native American mythological creature is in fact real.
8. Cigarette Burns
In this episode Jimmy Sweetman ventures out to locate a rare film print called "Le Fin Du Monde". The film once shown has been known to drive its audience into a crazed frenzy before the theatre goes up in flames. He finally discovers that the film does live up to it's reputation on the results are quite shocking.
9. Fair Haired Child
A 13 year old is kidnapped and locked in a basement by a scary couple with their younger son. During there incarceration in the basement the two children develop a special relationship and try and get through the night.
10. Sick Girl
Sick Girl is a comedy thriller about an insect scientist and the fly in the ointment that threatens her lesbian love affair.
11. Pick Me Up
In the middle of nowhere, with only a two-lane highway to connect to anywhere, recently divorced Stacia, a passenger on a broken-down bus, gets caught in a bizarre and violent turf war between serial killers.
12. Haeckel's Tale
Based on Clive Barker's short story. While on his way to see his sick father, Ernest Haeckel takes shelter with an elderly man and his young wife but soon discovers their horrible secret...
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Reviews & Thoughts
It's hit or miss...but all anthologies are. There are good episodes and bad episodes. But this reminds me too much of The Hitchhiker, Tales From the Crypt, and the Twilight Zone to give it a bad review. It's two seasons of different stories with a basic horror theme for each episode. Beyond that, anything goes. Which is nice compared to American Horror Story when, well, you get stuck for an entire season if the plot takes a bad turn. There is no recovery until the next year. With anthologies like this, you are always one episode away from something completely different.
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