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8	->''Their wildest dreams are your worst nightmares.''
9	-->-- '''Tagline'''
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11	''Masters of Horror'' was a GenreAnthology series on Creator/{{Showtime}}, created by horror film director Mick Garris.
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13	The idea sprung from a series of dinners that Garris had held with other horror film directors, and the satisfying experience and the directors' admiration of each others works lead Garris to create this series in 2005. The basic idea was a series of one-hour films, each directed by a well-known horror director. The series featured contributions from directors as diverse as Creator/DarioArgento, Creator/JohnCarpenter, Creator/TobeHooper, Creator/JohnLandis, and Creator/TakashiMiike, and received wide critical acclaim.
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15	The series ran for two seasons on Showtime. ''Series/FearItself'', another GenreAnthology in the same format and created by the same team, premiered on Creator/{{NBC}} in 2008, and was cancelled after its first season. Another similar show called ''Series/MastersOfScienceFiction'' (again from the same creators) premiered on ABC in 2007, but only ran six episodes before being cancelled. ''Masters of Italian Horror'' is also in the works, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin focusing solely on Italian directors]]. Creator/IDWPublishing is also adapting several of the episodes as comic books.
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17	For tropes from specific episodes, check the [[Recap/MastersOfHorror Recap page]].
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20	!!General tropes:
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22	* BlackComedy: And a ''lot'' of it. Certain episodes can easily pass as an AffectionateParody of similar stories, while others are clearly made with pitch-black comedy in mind.
23	* FanDisservice: Fanservice scenes often blended with gore or other horror tropes.
24	* {{Fanservice}}: Quite a lot of episodes feature nudity or sex scenes.
25	* FormulaBreakingEpisode: Each season of the anthology (usually set in modern day EverytownAmerica) had one episode set in the early 19th century and another filmed in Japan and directed by a Japanese director.
26	* {{Gorn}}: Loads of it. Creator/TakashiMiike (who else?) had so much in his episode that it was banned from broadcast.
27	* TheHeroDies: Many a DownerEnding would end up with the hero being killed by the episode's monster or villain.
28	* MaleGaze: All the creators are male, as are most of the main characters. Many episodes show female nudity and eroticism.
29	* PlayingWithATrope: What is of much interest to us Tropers is how the series play with standard HorrorTropes. Take "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road"; at the beginning, it looks like a typical hapless-female-chased-by-a-psycho. Then it turns out she is not that hapless, being the wife of a CrazySurvivalist. And so on.
30	* TorturePorn: Several episodes, especially in the second season.

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