The first episode of Masters of Horror was directed by Don Coscarelli (Phantasm) and aired on October 28, 2005. The story, “Incident On and Off a Mountain Road,” followed a deformed serial killer stalking a woman in the woods. This was followed a week later with a screen adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story “Dreams in the Witch-House, with Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, The Dentist).
Subsequent episodes that first season brought in Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist), Dario Argento (Suspiria), Joe Dante (Gremlins), John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), and Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, among others, who brought to life works by Clive Barker, Richard Matheson, and other genre writers.
