Masters of Horror

"Always expect the unexpected" is the chilling advice a young woman (Bree Turner of TV's GRIMM) thinks about one night on a lonely stretch of mountain road.

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. He suffers nightmares about a voracious rat with a human face.

In the near-future when nuclear war has turned much of our world into wasteland, the youth of America have become drug-crazed sociopaths who lawlessly prowl what's left.

Frank Spivey (Steven Weber of THE STAND) is a detective who rescues a strange young girl with a horribly disfigured face from a deranged killer.

Jamie (Henry Thomas of GANGS OF NEW YORK) is a depressed young divorced man who creates artificial flavorings until the day his life is hijacked by a series of random sensory flashes.

A few weeks before the Presidential election, an unpopular war still rages overseas, and veterans begin to rise from their flag-draped coffins for the most horrific reason of all: to vote.

A burned-out cop is demoted to the "weird calls" desk until a series of men are killed by massive blunt-force trauma while in a state of sexual arousal.

A movie programmer (Norman Reedus of TV's THE WALKING DEAD) searches for the holy grail of cinema, a legendary lost movie whose sole showing drove its audience insane.

Lori Petty (TANK GIRL) stars as a grieving mother with a remote estate, a ghastly secret, and a locked basement where abducted teens await an evil that feasts upon their virgin flesh.

A shy entomologist's drab life is changed by the simultaneous arrival of a large, mysterious bug and a torrid affair with a sexy young woman (erotic scream queen Misty Mundae).

On a desolate stretch of mountain road, a friendly truck driver who enjoys slaughtering hitchhikers meets a charming hitchhiker who prefers to butcher anyone who gives him a ride.

In 19th-century Japan, an American journalist searches for the prostitute he'd loved and left. But on an island where demons and whores rule the night, a deformed courtesan awaits.