Jenna Walter
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Married Baby
Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
Scotty Burke
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
avaunlocked
There are some real gems in the first season. Specifically, "Jenifer," "Imprint," and "Sick Girl." These three female-oriented horrors that were the perfect amount of disturbing. It was a pleasure to watch a young Norman Reedus in "Cigarette Burns." Just a joy-I highly recommend. "Pick Me Up" was delightfully witty and fun. Unfortunately, each and every zombie story misses the target. They were so bad that they made me rethink whether I even like the subgenre any more. But that's okay. Over 75% if these are winners, and that's a great batting average, especially for horror.
Smoreni Zmaj
This is a series of 26 one-hour horror films, directed by 19 different directors, which for some reason have been selected as "masters of horror". While some of them really are masters, the choice of others quite surprised me. Some movies have original stories, some are adaptations of the giants of the genre, such as Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft or Clive Barker. The quality varies from barely watchful crap to really excellent short films. The series overall is far from a masterpiece, but most episodes hold attention and everyone will find something for themselves. There is some really horrific horror and gore and serious drama, and there's also plenty of dark humor and effects that look like those from B movies of the '80s, where monsters, rather than being scary, wake nostalgia and bring smile to our faces. And there's also a couple of really painful embarrassment transfers. The second season is significantly weaker and I'm not surprised that the series has been canceled, but the fans of the horror should not miss it. I especially recommend "Valerie on the Stairs" (Barker), "Jenifer" (Argento), "Dreams in the Witch-House" (Lovecraft) and "The Black Cat" (Poe).7/10
Navaros
Masters of Horror has a few great episodes, but far more often, the episodes are terrible. It has a huge array of very bad episodes, many of which are not even horror.The following episodes of Masters of Horror are great, and 10/10:"Incident On and Off a Mountain Road"; "H.P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House"; "The Fair-Haired Child"; "Pick Me Up"; "Cigarette Burns"; "Family"; "Right to Die"; "The Black Cat"All the episodes listed above have amazing acting, writing, directing, and a great horror story behind them. But that is only 8 episodes out of a 26 episode series. The other 18 episodes are either mediocre, or terrible. Not a good track record. Not a good series, overall. Some of the episodes, like "Homecoming", are nothing more than anti-G.W. Bush administration political propaganda. I am not defending the G.W. Bush administration and it certainly deserves some criticism --- but in *appropriate* mediums. Not in what is *supposed* to be a horror series! The episode "Homecoming" is not *horror* at all, therefore it has no place being in a horror series. There is an episode called "Chocolate" which is the biggest pile of crap *ever* put on film. No exaggeration. It too, is not horror. It's not really anything. Just an abysmally boring, pointless hour worth of banal, asinine drivel. One of the reasons "Chocolate" is so unbelievably bad is because it was written and directed by the series creator, Mick Garris. Mick has publicly admitted in interviews that he isn't very good at making movies or TV episodes; that his strength is being a nice guy and brokering deals with really talented people to make good work for him with his producing company. Despite knowing he is no good at it, Mick Garris still went right on ahead and made "Chocolate" and a bunch of other episodes in the series which are little better. Right there is a waste of several potential episode slots that *good* episodes made by real "Masters of Horror" (instead of Mick Garris) might have filled. Best way to watch Masters of Horror is to cherrypick the 8 good episodes listed above and watch them only, and skip all the rest. Or simply not watch it at all.Tales from the Crypt is another horror anthology series. It was far better, with the vast majority of the Tales from the Crypt episodes being great (barring Season 7 only, which was terrible). It is advisable to pick up Tales from the Crypt for a much better overall horror experience than Masters of Horror can provide.
Tokimo
With the exception of FAMILY, this new season is worse than Season One. I can't imagine what they are thinking. As a fan of horror, can tolerate a lot of gore and mindless mayhem, but this series gets worse with each outing. I can't imagine how disheartening it must be for the actors and crew to go to work each day, toiling to churn out such crap. STORY! Is that too much to ask for? CHARACTER! How can we give damn about the fate of ANYONE in these stories? If we are not engaged, who cares if they get carved up or whatever? Almost every episode ends with mindless blood letting, going for gross out shock without any sense of revelation or conclusion or REASON why we have been subjected to an hour of bloodletting. Even Dante's effort this season had some disturbing sexist violence and wandered off to a pointless conclusion. Ironically, the production values and performances tend to be up to speed, while the content is utter crap. I have great hopes for Exec Producer's Garris's VALARIE UNDER THE STAIRS, but we shall see.
