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.

It is a time when the laws of science battle the secrets of magic, and medical student Ernst Haeckel believes the power of life, death, and resurrection lies in his arrogant hands.

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.