"Masters of Horror" - Season 1 Quiz

Answer: John Carpenter

"Cigarette Burns", the eighth of the thirteen episodes, followed Kirby Sweetman, a rare film hunter, as he searched for a controversial rare film known as "La Fin Absolute du Monde" for a rich client. Sweetman knows the film's history though. Every time a viewer watches the film, they go mad, murdering others and killing themselves as a result.

However, Kirby needs the money to save his theater and carry on in the absence of his recently-deceased wife. As Kirby nears the film, he realizes that he too is being sucked into the film's grasp, and possibly into madness. John Carpenter is a genuine Master of Horror. Before his work on "Cigarette Burns", Carpenter filmed "Halloween", "The Thing", "The Fog", and "Christine", each of which became exceedingly popular in proceeding years. "Halloween" in particular became one of the more successful independent horror films ever made (followed by numerous sequels) and was later remade by Rob Zombie in 2007.

Answer: Fairuza Bulk

Although all four of the actresses listed appeared together in the film "The Craft", only Fairuza Bulk takes on the main role in Larry Cohen's installation to the "Masters of Horror" collection, "Pick Me Up", which aired eleventh in the first season. The episode involves two murderers, a hitchhiker who kills the people who pick him up, and a trucker who kills the people he picks up, on a quiet road.

When a bus breaks down, the passengers split up and find themselves in the hands of these two men, but one woman, Stacia, breaks off on her own to go to a motel and is temporarily spared by the killers.

However, she finds herself between them when the two men come face to face. Director Larry Cohen made the horror films "It's Alive!" and the 2007 film "Captivity" starring Elisha Cuthbert.

Answer: H. P. Lovecraft

The second episode of the season, "H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House" was directed by Stuart Gordon, known for his works on other Lovecraftian stories such as "Dagon", "Re-Animator", and "From Beyond". As well, Gordon has had his name attached to the scripts of "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!" and "The Dentist".
"Dreams in the Witch-House" follows a college student who takes a room for rent in an old house. As he begins his work, he soon discovers that the house was once occupied by a witch who fed off the blood of infants in order to prolong her life. As his stay extends, he develops a relationship with his neighbour and her young son and soon realizes that either he's going mad or that there's actually someone living in the walls who wants him to do their evil deeds.
"Dreams in the Witch-House" was originally penned in 1932.

Answer: True

"Jenifer", the fourth episode to air, was quite the experience. The main character, Frank Spivey, finds Jenifer as she is about to be murdered outside the city and takes her in despite the fact that she is unlike any other human being. Although she has a perfect body, Jenifer has a horribly disfigured face and a personality to match. Frank soon realize he can't resist his succubus and his family falls apart as a result. Soon, they're forced to move to the country to start a new life, and Frank needs to decide if it's all worth it to be in love with a monster.
Dario Argento is synonymous with Giallo horror and artistically brilliant films. "Suspiria", an earlier work of his, is a cult classic, while "The Bird with the Crystal Plummage" became a benchmark for the Italian Giallo genre.
"Jenifer" was adapted from a short story by actor, Stephen Weber, who played the title role in the film.

Answer: Resurrect him

William Malone's entry to the series (the ninth, chronologically) is "The Fair Haired Child". In this tale, a young girl is abducted while riding her bike home from school. Upon waking up in a sterile hospital room, she soon discovers that she's still among her captors and they throw her into the basement.

Here, she finds a boy and the two of them try to escape. However, she soon finds that there's something in the basement that needs her, and the two abductors are in favor of this; they've done it twelve times before, but she's the first girl to be thrown in to the fair haired child. William Malone has been in the horror industry for a fair bit of time.

Originally, he was a popular mask maker, but he soon switched to directing. In 1999, he made the remake of "The House on Haunted Hill", and in 2002, he directed "Feardotcom".

Answer: Deer Woman

John Landis happened to direct both, and while both are about monsters/animals, the stories are a bit different. "Deer Woman" is about a jaded detective who tends to be given cases regarding animal attacks, but when he comes across one case that involves a beautiful Native American woman and the fact that she's actually a deer from the waist down, things get a bit more complicated. Along with another officer, they hop from crime scene to crime scene in an attempt to track her down, but one of the two ends up coming face to face with the beautiful beast. "Deer Woman" was the seventh episode of the anthology to air and it features numerous references to other John Landis films such as "An American Werewolf in London" and "Blues Brothers".

Answer: Incident On and Off a Mountain Road

Don Coscarelli's "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was the first episode of the anthology to be aired and it's certainly not lacking in horror themes. The episode follows a young woman, Ellen, as she has an unfortunate accident on a mountain road.

When she comes to, the other driver is gone, and she finds herself being chased by 'Moonface', a local murderer who's out for her. She finds herself trapped in Moonface's house and ends up relying on her strengths (realized through flashbacks of her and her authoritative husband) in order to get through the dire situation. The episode was based on a story written by Joe R. Lansdale, who also happened to write Coscarelli's "Bubba Ho-Tep", a 2002 cult hit that gave Lansdale a Bram Stoker Award nomination. Coscarelli also produced numerous "Phantasm" movies as well as "Beastmaster".

Answer: Dance of the Dead

"Dance of the Dead", the third episode to air in the first season, was directed by Tobe Hooper, who was well-known in the horror genre for helming "Poltergeist", along with Steven Spielberg, and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". He also directed the second season episode "The Damned Thing".
"Dance of the Dead" followed the story of a young woman, Peggy, and her mother in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks which used an odd substance known as 'The Blizz' which, when it falls, burns the skin of its victims with biochemicals. Now, in a dystopian future, Peggy finds herself isolated with her mother and takes a ride with some roughians from the local town of Muskeet to find herself. Instead, she finds her sister, who she thought died many years earlier in a Blizz storm, in a local club performing the 'dance of the dead'.
This episode also stars Robert Englund, who is better known for playing the role of Freddy Krueger in "A Nightmare on Elm Street".

Answer: Lucky McKee

"Sick Girl", the tenth episode of the anthology, was directed by newcomer to the genre, Lucky McKee, whose work "May" has gained a faithful audience. He has also directed "The Lost" and "The Woods", two small independent horror films in his first few years. "Sick Girl" follows Ida, a lonely entomologist who can't seem to find the woman that's right for her.

However, under the guidance of her colleague, she gets a date with a mysterious girl in the lobby of her office. In the meantime, Ida struggles with her landlord who feels that Ida shouldn't be housing so many unique bugs in her apartment.

This relationship becomes more strained when Ida receives a new bug from an unknown explorer, and she finds it to be like no bug she's ever seen before.

When this creature bites her date after it escapes its container, things take a drastic turn for the worse.

Answer: True

"Imprint", the thirteenth and final episode of the first season, was directed by Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, and is the first Asian horror entry given by a Master of Horror. Based on a book by Shimako Iwai, the novel strays slightly from the episode, but the title was based on the feeling the author had while writing it.
"Imprint" follows the story of an American man, Christopher, who has traveled throughout Japan to find the woman that he loved. Upon arriving on an island inhabited by prostitutes, he finds one disfigured woman who he confides in. She ends up being the right one to talk to, having known his lover, Komomo, when she lived on the same island. However, the story of this prostitute's past, and the days she knew Komomo up until her death, are tragic, and as the story is retold over and over again, a little more of the horrifying truth is revealed each time, and Christopher must come to terms with his personal ghosts.
Takashi Miike, in the horror genre, produced the graphic and horrifying films "Audition", "Ichi, the Killer", and the Japanese version of "One Missed Call".