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Dario Argento's contribution to the horror anthology series originally made for Showtime adapts a contemporary horror comic by writer Bruce Jones and artist Bernie Wrightson, about a modern-day Lolita with a deformed face, a stunning body, and siren-like powers over men. Steven Weber scripts and stars as the police officer who rescues and adopts the girl, only to find himself in her snare, and Carrie Anne Fleming plays Jenifer.

The horror anthology gets a transfusion of old blood in the Masters of Horror series originally made for Showtime: veteran directors of the genre are given creative freedom to choose their own projects and their own styles. Stuart Gordon’s Dreams in the Witch House, an H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, is the story of a college grad student (Ezra Godden, from Gordon's Dagon) who finds a pathway to a world of magic and demonic evil, an inspired marriage of Lovecraft's multi-dimensional horror and string theory's multi-dimensional hypothesis.

John Landis directs a script co-written with his son for his contribution to the horror anthology series originally made for Showtime. Brian Benben plays a burned-out cop investigating a series of weird deaths where the victims appear to have been trampled to death (while in the cab of a truck!) and Cinthia Moura is the beautiful Native American women seen with every victim.

Norman Reedus and Udo Kier star as a film programmer and the wealthy patrol who hires him to track down a legendary lost movie that is rumored to have driven its audience into a homicidal rage, in John Carpenter's contribution to the horror anthology series originally made for Showtime.

Don Coscarelli turns to a short story by Joe Lansdale (who also wrote the original story for Coscarelli’s Bubba Ho-Tep) for his contribution to the horror anthology series originally made for Showtime. Bree Turner stars as a seemingly defenseless young woman and John DeSantis is the deformed and demented serial killer known as Moonface in the thriller, which cuts back and forth in time to reveal that our heroine is not as helpless, nor as innocent as she initially seems. Ethan Embry and Angus Scrimm (the "Tall Man" from Coscarelli's Phantasm films) co-star.

Japanese maverick genre director Takashi Miike's contribution to the cable horror anthology turned out to be too extreme even for pay cable -- it was never broadcast and makes its debut here on DVD. Billy Drago stars as an American searching for the geisha he loved and left and Youki Kudoh and Michie co-star in the English language production.

John McNaughton directs this adaptation of the Clive Barker short story (scripted by Mick Garris), about an orgy of the undead and the medical student (Derek Cecil) who blunders into it all. Jon Polito co-stars and the credits read "in association with horror legend George A. Romero," but isn't explicit about Romero's contribution.

William Malone's contribution to the Masters of Horror anthology made for Showtime completes the first series of the show (now in its second year on cable) on DVD. Lori Petty stars in the story of a grieving mother who kidnaps and locks teenagers in her cellar to fulfill a terrible bargain with the devil.

John Carpenter directs Ron Perlman, Mark Feuerstein, Emannuelle Vaugiere and Caitlin Wachs in his second episodes for the horror anthology series originally made for Showtime.

Dario Argento directs Meat Loaf and John Saxon in an adaptation of F. Paul Wilson’s short story about a fur coat with supernatural fringe in the first DVD release from the second season of the horror anthology series originally made for Showtime.

Cult director Larry Cohen directs past collaborator Michael Moriarty in his contribution to the horror anthology series originally made for Showtime. Moriarty is a serial killer who preys on hitchhikers who picks up a psychopathic passenger (Warren Kole) who kills anyone that picks him up, and Fairuza Balk is the innocent caught in the battle of the road killers.

Horror legend Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) turns to a Richard Matheson short story (adapted by the author’s son Richard Christian Matheson) for his contribution to the horror anthology series originally made for Showtime. Robert Englund plays the depraved MC at a nightclub where the entertainers are re-animated corpses of the dead performing for survivors of the apocalypse. Jonathan Tucker and Jessica Lowndes star.

An affair between an entomologist (Angela Bettis) and her sexy young lover (Erin Brown, aka erotic scream queen Misty Mundae) takes a disturbing turn when a mysterious bug joins the tryst to feed, infect and mutate in Lucky McKee's (May) contribution to the horror anthology series originally made for Showtime.

Joe Dante's episode of Showtime's Masters of Horror series is a politically barbed twist on "The Monkey's Paw." The corpses of the recent war dead (from an unnamed but unmistakable Middle East campaign) rise up as the incumbent president runs for re-election on his war record and his handlers try to spin the fallout in hysterical media appearances.

Twin pack of telefilms from the horror anthology series originally made for Showtime. John Carpenter directs Cigarette Burns and Stuart Gordon directs Dreams in the Witch House. See New Releases for individual reviews and full supplement details.

Twin pack of telefilms from the horror anthology series originally made for Showtime. Mick Garris directs Chocolate and Don Coscarelli directs Incident On And Off A Mountain Road. See New Releases for details on individual titles.

Henry Thomas plays a newly divorced young man who starts to experience brief and random sensory flashes from a mysterious woman and discovers a horrifying secret that binds him inexorably to her in Mick Garris’ contribution to the horror anthology series originally made for Showtime.