Summary
A young woman thinks about and uses the advice from her survivalist ex-husband to survive after a car accident; Medical student Ernst Haeckel believes the power of life, death and resurrection lay in his arrogant hands; A depressed young divorced man creates artificial flavorings until the day his life is hijacked by a series of random sensory flashes; In the near future when nuclear war has turned much of our world into a wasteland and the youth of America have become drug crazed sociopaths; To a movie programmer, the holy grail of cinema is a legendary lost movie, whose sole showing was rumored to have driven its audience to a homicidal frenzy; When stressed-out student Walter Gilman rents a room in a decrepit old house, his graduate thesis studies begin to take some very strange twists.Contents
Incident on and off a mountain road / teleplay by Don Coscarelli & Stephen Romano ; directed by Don CoscarelliHaeckel's tale / in association with George A. Romero ; teleplay by Mick Garris ; directed by John McNaughton
Chocolate / written by Mick Garris ; directed by Mick Garris
Dance of the dead / teleplay by Richard Christian Matheson ; directed by Tobe Hooper
Cigarette burns / written by Drew McWeeny & Scott Swan ; directed by John Carpenter
Dreams in the witch house / teleplay by Dennis Paoli & Stuart Gordon ; directed by Stuart Gordon.
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Survival
-- Drama.
Medical students -- Drama. Divorced men -- Drama. Psychopaths -- Drama. Lost films -- Drama. Graduate students -- Drama. Television programs. Horror television programs. Television programs for the hearing impaired. Television serials. |
| Publisher | [Englewood, Colo.] :Starz Home Entertainment,2007 |
| Other Titles | Masters of horror (Television program) Incident on and off a mountain road. Haeckel's tale. Chocolate. Dance of the dead. Dreams in the witch house. |
| Contributors |
Rowe, Tom.
Richardson, Lisa. Turner, Bree. Embry, Ethan, 1978- Cecil, Derek. Polito, Jon. Thomas, Henry, 1971- Frewer, Matt, 1958- Tucker, Jonathan, 1982- Englund, Robert, 1947- Reedus, Norman, 1969- Kier, Udo. Godden, Ezra. Lansdale, Joe R. Incident on and off a mountain road. Barker, Clive, 1952- Haeckel's tale. Garris, Mick. Chocolate. Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013. Dance of the dead. Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937. Dreams in the witch house. Coscarelli, Don. Romano, Stephen. Romero, George A. Garris, Mick. McNaughton, John, 1950- Matheson, Richard Christian. Hooper, Tobe, 1943-2017 McWeeny, Drew. Swan, Scott. Carpenter, John, 1948- Paoli, Dennis. Gordon, Stuart, 1947-2020 IDT Entertainment. Nice Guy Productions (Firm) Industry Entertainment. Starz Home Entertainment (Firm) |
| Participants/Performers |
Incident on and off a mountain road cast: Bree Turner, Ethan Embry. Haeckel's tale cast: Derek Cecil, Jon Polito. Chocolate cast: Henry Thomas, Matt Frewer. Dance of the dead cast: Jonathan Tucker, Robert Englund. Cigarette burns cast: Norman Reedus, Udo Kier. Dreams in the witch house cast: Ezra Godden. |
| Other Contributors |
Haeckel's tale: Director of photography, Attila Szalay ; editor, Andrew Cohen ; music, Nicholas Pike. Chocolate: Director of photography, Attila Szalay ; editor, Andrew Cohen ; music, Nicholas Pike ; production designer, David Fischer. Dance of the dead: Director of photography, Jon Joffin ; editor, Andrew Cohen ; music, Bill Corgan ; production designer, David Fischer. Cigarette burns: Director of photography, Attila Szalay ; editor, Patrick McMahon ; music, Cody Carpenter ; production designer, David Fischer. Dreams in the witch house: Director of photography, Jon Joffin ; editor, Marshall Harvey ; music, Richard Band ; production designer, David Fischer. Main title music, Edward Shearmur. |
| Audience |
Not rated; contains mature content. |
| Language |
English Closed-captioned. |
| Notes |
Title from container. Incident on and off a mountain road based on the short story by Joe R. Lansdale. Haeckel's tale based on the short story by Clive Barker. Chocolate based on a short story by Mick Garris. Dance of the dead based on the short story by Richard Matheson. Dreams in the witch house based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Created by Mick Garris. Originally released in 2005. Special features: Audio commentaries with Stuart Gordon, John Carpenter, Don Coscarelli, Joe R. Lansdale, Mick Garris, John McNaughton; working with a Master featurettes; on set: interviews with cast and crew; behind-the-scenes featurettes; script to screen featurettes; trailers; still galleries; storyboard galleries; director bios; DVD-ROM: screenplays; screen savers. |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo. surround. |
| Description |
6 videodiscs (345 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Other | Classic View |