Masters of Horror, any good?

super_furry · 06-03-2007 10:39am #1

I'm tempted to pick up the first series boxset but haven't actually seen any of the episodes. Is it worth getting?

Beelzebub · 06-03-2007 10:46am

Most definitely worth watching.
As is Series 2.

Where did you see this on sale?

Another one you might be interested in is:

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King

niallon · 06-03-2007 2:40pm

All I ever saw was Jenifer from Argento and Cigarette Burns from Carpenter and thoroughly enjoyed both. I'd recommend it on the strength of those alone!

06-03-2007 5:39pm

It's worth getting both box sets, they're only 22 euro wach on play.com.

Beelzebub · 10-03-2007 8:25pm

I wish they had released it in one, more convenient. Still it's cheap enough.

monkeyfudge · 10-03-2007 8:34pm

At it's best it's enjoyable.

At it's worst it's horrific (and not in a good way)

Deer Woman is probably the best episode out of the bunch on those discs. There are some good one's in series two though... Pro-Life by John Carpenter was very good.

Cactus Col · 12-03-2007 3:11pm

monkeyfudge wrote:

Deer Woman is probably the best episode out of the bunch on those discs.

Yeah ... Deer Woman was great fun, and the woman in it is amazing. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.

But the rest are a bit of mixed bunch

TerrorFirmer · 12-03-2007 6:12pm

The worst one I've seen was the one in which a man has flashes of another womans life - and sees her murdering her lover, etc. Pretty boring, and predictable - standard tv rubbish really. Was it called Chocolate, I think?

spooky donkey · 21-03-2007 11:55am

I think its worth getting and ive only seen the first few from season 2 but season 2 seemed to be better what I saw of it. Where did ya see it and how much was it. And did it inclued the not seen Tassahi Miike epp?

super_furry · 22-03-2007 9:02pm

Watched Jennifer last night. It was brilliantly horrific, really twisted although the story was pretty poor.

faceman · 28-03-2007 7:59pm

super_furry wrote:

Watched Jennifer last night. It was brilliantly horrific, really twisted although the story was pretty poor.

its the only episode ive seen and i thought it was poor. The ending was so predicatable too.

niallon · 29-03-2007 5:44pm

Just ordered Pro-Life and Cigarette Burns/Dreams In The Witch House off play. Very interested to see what Pro-Life is like

DerekP11 · 29-03-2007 8:59pm

niallon wrote:

Just ordered Pro-Life and Cigarette Burns/Dreams In The Witch House off play. Very interested to see what Pro-Life is like

You'd be better off saving your cash to buy me a beer or fill the void in the "Conscious" budget.

monkeyfudge · 29-03-2007 9:42pm

I thought Pro-Life was pretty good.

Easily the best thing John Carpenter has done in a long, long time.

Ron Perlman is great in it.

niallon · 29-03-2007 11:03pm

DerekP11 wrote:

You'd be better off saving your cash to buy me a beer or fill the void in the "Conscious" budget.

I'd expect that from Harvey Weinstein Derek but not you!

niallon · 03-04-2007 8:59pm

Finally saw Pro-Life, didn't like it nearly as much as Cigarette Burns. SPOLIERS:
Didn't like the man in a suit one bit. Terrible creature design, and from KNB!! Me oh my. The acting didn't blow me away either, especially Ron Perlman who usually always shines! Pity

Baggio... · 20-04-2007 4:42pm

niallon wrote:

Finally saw Pro-Life, didn't like it nearly as much as Cigarette

I was hoping for the series would be a bit better to be honest... Although I did like Pro-life an C. Burns. Pelts was OK.

I don't think I'd buy 'em on DVD though. Mind you, for 22 euro you can't really go wrong. I'm probably in the minority here... but I always felt like I wanted something more form each story...

jac83 · 22-04-2007 11:20pm

ive seen all the first season and some ot the second i liked fair haired child,i think its called from season 1 and family from season 2,however i think that the storylines are a bit weak in some of them and they are rushed in the what is it 55 mins? some go for shock value rather than quality value considering the horror directors that are working on them!

monkeyfudge · 22-04-2007 11:25pm

Remember they are only given 1 week and 1 million dollars to make the films for the series.

niallon · 23-04-2007 6:06pm

Baggio... wrote:

I was hoping for the series would be a bit better to be honest... Although I did like Pro-life an C. Burns. Pelts was OK.

I don't think I'd buy 'em on DVD though. Mind you, for 22 euro you can't really go wrong. I'm probably in the minority here... but I always felt like I wanted something more form each story...

My feelings on this topic are a) hard to get a lot into an hour and b) as pointed out budget and time is low but yes I do agree, sometimes it did seem lacking unnecessarily!

Masters of Horror, any good?

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