"Fear Itself" Television Show
Premise: A continuation of the Mick Garris-created anthology series Masters of Horror, gathering renowned horror movie writers and directors to film standalone stories showcasing the best that horror has to offer.
Years Active: 2008
Network: NBC
Running Time: 60 minutes
Season 1
Episode #: 1
Title: "Sacrifice"
Director: Breck Eisner (remakes of Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Crazies)
Stars: Jeffrey Pierce, Jesse Plemons, Stephen Martines, Rachel Miner, Mircea Monroe
Summary: Four criminals trapped inside an old, abandoned fort discover that it's inhabited by a trio of attractive sisters with a deadly secret.
Episode #: 2
Title: "Spooked"
Director: Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Machinist)
Stars: Eric Roberts, Jack Noseworthy, Cynthia Watros, Larry Gilliard Jr.
Summary: While on a stakeout in a haunted house, a private eye confronts the demons of his past.
Episode #: 3
Title: "Family Man"
Director: Ronny Yu (Freddy vs. Jason, Bride of Chucky)
Stars: Colin Ferguson, Clifton Collins Jr., Josie Davis, Gig Morton, Nicole Leduc
Summary: A family man switches bodies with a serial killer after a near-death experience and must fight from behind bars to save his family from becoming the next victims.
Episode #: 4
Title: "In Sickness and in Health"
Director: John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, Twilight Zone: The Movie)
Stars: Maggie Lawson, James Roday, Christie Laing, Sonja Bennett, Marshall Bell
Summary: On her wedding day, a bride receives a mysterious note that reads, "The person you are marrying is a serial killer."
Episode #: 5
Title: "Eater"
Director: Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond)
Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Stephen R.
Hart, Russell Hornsby, Pablo Schreiber, Stephen Lee
Summary: A rookie police officer must spend a night in the precinct guarding a serial killer nicknamed "The Eater." When the other cops start acting bizarre, she suspects that no one is who they seem.
Episode #: 6
Title: "New Year's Day"
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Repo! The Genetic Opera)
Stars: Briana Evigan, Cory Monteith, Niall Matter
Summary: A young woman wakes up to find herself in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies.
Episode #: 7
Title: "Community"
Director: Mary Harron (American Psycho)
Stars: Brandon Routh, Shiri Appleby, John Billingsley, Bonita Friedericy
Summary: A young married couple discovers that the seemingly perfect neighborhood they just moved into has a dark side in which their neighbors go to extremes to ensure that they conform to the warped sense of community.
Episode #: 8
Title: "Skin and Bones"
Director: Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter, Wendigo)
Stars: Doug Jones, Gordon Tootoosis
Summary: After being lost in the woods for days, a cattle herder returns home to his family -- possessed by an evil creature.
Episode #: 9
Title: "Something With Bite"
Director: Ernest Dickerson (Demon Knight, Bones)
Stars: Wendell Pierce, Paula Jai Parker
Summary: When a veterinarian is bitten by a large, strange animal brought into his clinic, he begins to see the world and his stale life differently.
Episode #: ?
Title: "Chance"
Director: John Dahl (Joy Ride)
Stars: TBD
Summary: A man embarks on a battle of will when he comes face to face with his evil doppelganger.
Episode #: ?
Title: "Echoes"
Director: Rupert Wainwright (The Fog, Stigmata)
Stars: TBD
Summary: A young man moves into an apartment where he believes he lived in a past life, but he realizes that in his previous life he was a serial killer, and he must keep that life from bleeding into his present one.
Episode #: ?
Title: "The Spirit Box"
Director: Rob Schmidt (Wrong Turn)
Stars: TBD
Summary: Two high school girls contact a dead classmate with a Ouija board and learn that she was killed by a teacher with whom she'd been having an affair.
Episode #: ?
Title: "The Circle"
Director: TBD
Stars: TBD
Summary: A group of people that meets every Halloween to tell scary stories realizes that they're living one of the stories.