Masters of Horror: Season 2

2006 · 13 episodes · ★ 5.5

What Season 2 of Masters of Horror

Masters of Horror is an anthology created by Mick Garris for Showtime. It airs between 2005 and 2007, and each week offers a one-hour film directed by famous names in the genre. There is no plot connecting the episodes. Each story starts from scratch, with its own characters, and has no connection to the others. Among its tales are a boy who witnesses the death of his parents, a furrier obsessed with a stripper, and an ice cream man seeking revenge. Since each episode stands on its own, viewers can watch the stories in any order they like.

13episodes

Oct 27, 2006aired

Feb 2, 2007last episode

12.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 The Damned Thing
Oct 27, 2006 · 58 min · ★ 4.8
The Damned Thing is the apocalyptic tale of a mysterious creature that terrorizes a small Texas town.
Directing: Tobe Hooper · Writing: Richard Christian Matheson · Starring: Sean Patrick Flanery, Brendan Fletcher, Marisa Coughlan, Ted Raimi
2x02 Family
Nov 3, 2006 · 58 min · ★ 6.7
A young couple moves into a new home only to find out that their neighbor, a seemingly normal man who works from home is not what he seems.
Directing: John Landis · Starring: George Wendt, Matt Keeslar, Meredith Monroe
2x03 The V Word
Nov 10, 2006 · 59 min · ★ 4.9
A lone vampire punishes two teenage boys who make the poor decision to break into a mortuary.
Directing: Ernest R. Dickerson · Writing: Mick Garris · Starring: Michael Ironside, Arjay Smith, Jodelle Ferland, Lynda Boyd
2x04 Sounds Like
Nov 17, 2006 · 58 min · ★ 5.5
Based on a short story by Mike O’Driscoll. The story of Larry Pearce, an ordinary man blessed with gift/curse of extraordinary hearing that drives him to the brink of insanity, and forces him to take violent action to silence the horrific cacophony in his head.
Directing: Brad Anderson · Writing: Brad Anderson · Starring: Chris Bauer, David Lovgren, Richard Kahan, Nimet Kanji
2x05 Pro-Life
Nov 24, 2006 · 58 min · ★ 5.1
Pro-Life tells the story of a young girl trapped inside a clinic who discovers the only thing more dangerous than her pursuers is the demonic secret that she carries within her.
Directing: John Carpenter · Writing: Drew McWeeny, Rebecca Swan · Starring: Caitlin Wachs, Ron Perlman, Derek Mears, Emmanuelle Vaugier
2x06 Pelts
Dec 1, 2006 · 59 min · ★ 5.4
Pelts is an erotic tale about stolen raccoon pelts that take violent revenge on those who seek to wear them.
Directing: Dario Argento · Writing: Matt Venne · Starring: Meat Loaf, John Saxon, Angela Marie Fong, Elise Lew
2x07 The Screwfly Solution
Dec 8, 2006 · 60 min
Deadly virus infects the nation, that turns men into psychotic killers who attack every woman they see. A housewife and her daughter try to survive this madness.
Directing: Joe Dante · Writing: Sam Hamm · Starring: Jason Priestley, Kerry Norton, Brenna O'Brien, Elliott Gould
2x08 Valerie on the Stairs
Dec 29, 2006 · 60 min · ★ 4.9
Rob Hanisee is a writer that has a strange apparition. Beautiful, naked and mysterious, Valerie might be the muse that Rob has always searched for - or the manifestation of a much darker force. Blood and death follow Rob across the line between life and art.
Directing: Mick Garris · Writing: Mick Garris · Starring: Tyron Leitso, Clare Grant, Christopher Lloyd, Tony Todd
2x09 Right to Die
Jan 5, 2007 · 58 min · ★ 5.4
Her flesh has been burned and her body remains in coma but from a medical perspective, Abby is still alive. Her husband Cliff is determined to get a court order to stop her pain. But Abby's condition is worsening, she repeatedly flat-lines and is revived. Each time her body dies, her spirit grows stronger attacking those that have taken advantage of her plight.
Directing: Rob Schmidt · Starring: Martin Donovan, Corbin Bernsen, Robin Sydney, Julia Benson
2x10 We All Scream for Ice Cream
Jan 12, 2007 · 58 min
A long time ago, a prank by a gang of kids known as the West End Bunch went wrong. Now grown up and a parent himself, former West-Ender Layne Banixter witnesses the friends of his youth murdered by their own children, who have turned against them. To save his own family Layne must face his fears and realize that sometimes the sins of the fathers are visited upon the son.
Directing: Tom Holland · Writing: David J. Schow · Starring: Lee Tergesen, Colin Cunningham, Megan McKinnon, Brett Kelly
2x11 The Black Cat
Jan 19, 2007 · 57 min · ★ 6.5
Edgar Allan Poe is a writer out of ideas and short on cash that's followed by a black cat that will destroy his life or help him to write one of his most famous stories.
Directing: Stuart Gordon · Writing: Stuart Gordon · Starring: Aron Tager, Jeffrey Combs, Eric Keenleyside, Christopher Heyerdahl
2x12 The Washingtonians
Jan 26, 2007 · 56 min · ★ 5.0
"The Washingtonians" is the twelfth episode of the second season of Masters of Horror, directed by Peter Medak. The episode is based on the short story written by Bentley Little. It details a man discovering a shocking secret about George Washington that could shatter the world's view of America forever, and the murderous brotherhood sworn to keep the secret safe.
Directing: Peter Medak · Writing: Richard Chizmar, Johnathon Schaech · Starring: Saul Rubinek, Venus Terzo, Johnathon Schaech, Daniel Cudmore
2x13 Dream Cruise Season Finale
Feb 2, 2007 · 60 min · ★ 4.7
Dream Cruise is the thirteenth and final episode of the second season of Masters of Horror, directed by Norio Tsuruta.
Directing: Norio Tsuruta · Starring: Daniel Gillies, Yoshino Kimura