THEIR WILDEST DREAMS ARE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARES
The acclaimed Masters Of Horror returns to DVD for a second series with 13 more tales of terror from the creative talents responsible for some of the most spine-chilling and seminal horror films ever made.
Dario Argento's bizarre Pelts concerns a sleazy furrier, a lesbian stripper and a trapper who all become cursed to commit bloody suicide for the killing of a sacred species of raccoons, while in John Landis' Family a young married couple move into a new home only to discover their neighbour is not what he first appears to be. The horrors of various medical issues are tackled in three of the films: Pro-Life, John Carpenter's homage to Rosemary's Baby, in which a teenage girl seeks an abortion after being raped by the Devil: Rob Schmidt's The Right To Die, the story of a family haunted by a vengeful spirit while debating the fate of woman left disfigured and close to death following a fiery car wreck; and in Joe Dante's The Screwfly Solution, in which two scientists struggle to find a cure for a virus that is overcoming the world's male population and causing them to attack women.
Directors Stuart Gordon and Mick Garris both take their inspiration from literary sources, with Gordon taking on Edgar Allen Poe's famous story The Black Cat, while Garris brings to the screen an adaptation of Clive Barker's Valerie On The Stairs, the tale of a young writer obsessed by visions of a beautiful woman who appears to him while he is working on his latest novel.
Each disc in the boxed set comes packed with a host of extra features, including audio commentaries, interviews with the directors and stars, "making of" featurettes, director biographies and much more.
The seven-disc box set MASTERS OF HORROR: SERIES 2 - VOLUME 1 (cert. 18) will be released on DVD (£24.99) by Starz Home Entertainment on 8th October 2007.
