Metacritic TV

Masters Of Horror

SERIES: Showtime, Friday 10:00p (60 minutes)

Created by Mick Garris

Genre(s): Horror

FIRST AIR DATE: October 28, 2005
ALSO ON: Each episode repeats Sat & Sun at 10:00p

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

74 / 100

Critic Reviews

91 Entertainment Weekly Paul Katz
Happy Halloween. [28 Oct 2005, p.79]
90 Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
It's simply a great idea that, if early indications are accurate, could stand as a horror classic for a television genre that's been inconsistent at best over the years.
80 Newsday Diane Werts
Any doubts the tube can get graphic enough for today's gore-heads disappear almost instantly with tonight's premiere installment.
75 People Weekly Tom Gliatto
Horror isn't my thing, but this is pretty good. [7 Nov 2005, p.41]
75 New York Daily News David Hinckley
"Masters of Horror," like any anthology, can be judged only after many installments, but it's off to a tantalizingly creepy start.
70 Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
True, it's not quite "Tales From the Crypt" but is better than "Tales From the Darkside."
63 New York Post Linda Stasi
And that's the problem. Is it horror or just horrible? Is it scary or just bloody?
60 Variety Brian Lowry
[It] won't earn many points for subtlety, but for aficionados of the horror genre it's the kind of stylish gorefest that should keep them up nights.
50 PopMatters Bill Gibron
If the first offering, "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road," is any indication, the hoped-for resurrection of in-your-face frights is still a couple of corpses away.

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