Too Scary for You: Showtime's MASTERS OF HORROR
Showtime's Masters of Horror began with a shudder -- the truly unsettling adaptation of Joe Lansdale's short story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road," directed by Don Coscarelli, and "Homecoming," Joe Dante's sombre vision of where the war dead wander.
Series producer Mick Garris has said that the fall 2005 series has been renewed, and the pay cable network promises another set of thirteen one-hour chillers by fall. This summer, the entire series will roll out on DVD - and that will include (come August) s to the episode that Showtime decided was too offensive to show.
Thank you Poland for posting the link to UK's Bravo network, which will air the Takashi Miike episode that Showtime found too gruesome to show. In it, a samurai visits a Japanese brothel and discovers that he should have chosen the lady who wasn't scratching her her head.
Gross!
But how is that more horrible or offensive than these episodes
Title: Deer Woman
Director: Joe Landis
Plot: Something about a Native American spirit who appears in the form of a Maxim cover model and eats idiots. And the problem with this is ... what?
Title: Dreams in the Witch House
Director: Stuart Gordon
Based upon a story by: H.P. Lovecraft
Plot: Twitchy grad student believes that housemate-- and maybe housemate's shrieking baby, too-- are hellspawn. Bye, baby.