Masters of Horror (TV series)

Masters of Horror is a TV series created by Mick Garris. It first aired on Showtime in 2005.

The series features weekly hour-long episodes, each directed by a well-known horror director. No women directors were hired during the first two seasons, and of the directors announced for the third season, none are female. Two have been Asian (Takashi Miike and Norio Tsuruta) and one African-American (Ernest Dickerson); the rest have been white.

The series largely tells the story from white male perspectives, although a few episodes have featured female protagonists, and a few others have not featured particular protagonists.

Episodes of interest

Female protagonists:

• "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" dir. by Don Coscarelli
• "Dance of the Dead" dir. by Tobe Hooper
• "Sick Girl" dir. by Lucky McKee
• "Pro-Life" dir. by John Carpenter

Female villains or significant female characters:

• "Jenifer" dir. by Dario Argento
• "Chocolate" dir. by Mick Garris
• "Deer Woman" dir. by John Landis
• "Fair-Haired Child" dir. by William Malone
• "Imprint" dir. by Takashi Miike
• "Valerie on the Stairs" dir. by Mick Garris
• "Right to Die" dir. by Rob Schmidt
• "Dream Cruise" dir. by Norio Tsuruta

Themes:

• "Homecoming" dir. by Joe Dante (political satire about Iraq war)
• "The Screwfly Solution"

Further reading

• Wikipedia entry