Masters of Horror

[Mark Nornes]

Miike and Tengan have joined an interesting American television 
project. From the Times:

It was a dark and stormy night when the Masters of Horror convened to 
work their demonic arts. Well, actually, it was a soft summer evening 
in the San Fernando Valley, and these horror movie directors were only 
getting together for dinner at Cafe Bijou. All the same, once the 
creators of films like "Halloween," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "The 
Howling," "It's Alive," "Suspiria" and "An American Werewolf in London" 
started meeting regularly, something fiendish was born - and it begins 
tonight at 10 on Showtime as "Masters of Horror."

  An anthology series of 13 one-hour films to be broadcast on Friday 
nights, "Masters of Horror" showcases the original work of 13 veteran 
genre directors: Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Don 
Coscarelli, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, John 
Landis, William Malone, Lucky McKee, John McNaughton and Takashi Miike. 
The project grew out of several informal dinners organized two years 
ago by Mr. Garris as a way of extending the peculiar bonhomie that 
exists among "those of us who toil in the gutters of horror," as he put 
it in a telephone interview from Los Angeles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/arts/television/28horr.html?8hpib

Here's the website:

http://www.sho.com/site/mastersofhorror/home.do

Miike's piece is called Imprint. No other information, but the graphic 
features a muscular (burned?) arm holding a knife (?) with an American 
flag in the background. I hope Showtime subscribers can tell us what 
happens.

Markus
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