{"id":6,"date":"2007-02-08T05:38:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T05:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2009-08-18T19:18:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T19:18:35","slug":"masters-of-horror-just-keep-on-doing-it-bravo-showtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/masters-of-horror-just-keep-on-doing-it-bravo-showtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters of Horror just keep on doing it! Bravo Showtime!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I just saw the first episode of the new season of Showtime&#8217;s series, <em>Masters of Horror.<\/em> This episode &#8220;The Damned Thing&#8221;\u009d was based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce and directed by Tobe Hooper (can you say <em>Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em>?).<\/p>\n<p>I was so impressed by the entire first season of <em>Masters of Horror.<\/em> I liked some episodes more than others, but each one of them is a gem, a one-hour mini-movie that is far better than 90% of the ridiculous splatter-shlock I have seen lately (see my <em>Rest Stop<\/em> and <em>Wicker Man <\/em>reviews). I credit this series for re-awakening my long-dormant interest in horror cinema.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, as to my previous rant about smart resourceful heroines, I recently saw a first-season episode of <em>MoH<\/em>, &#8220;Pick Me Up,&#8221;\u009d about two serial killers who happen to cross paths. The heroine in that episode made me say, &#8220;Now THAT&#8217;S what I was talking about. She did everything right, and STILL got whacked.&#8221;\u009d THAT&#8217;S good stuff!<\/p>\n<p>So I was anxious to see if they could keep up their winning streak with the second season.<\/p>\n<p>And they did.<\/p>\n<p>Tobe Hooper pulls out the gore stops and shoots some truly disturbing scenes as a small Texas town is terrorized by some hate-filled earth entity from out of the spent Texas oil fields. The genius of this story is how the creature doesn&#8217;t have to do anything except bring out the worst in the townspeople. Anger, hate, rage, and finally mindless violence. There&#8217;s also some not-so-subtle commentary about the oil industry there if you look for it.<\/p>\n<p>The actors do a fine job, and Showtime finally splurged on some CGI special effects for the monster, something they had avoided in the first season.<\/p>\n<p>The show made me want to go find the original story by Ambrose Bierce. That&#8217;s a good kick off to the second season. Let&#8217;s hope they can keep up the winning streak.<\/p>\n\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Ftravisheermann.com%2Fblog%2F2007%2F02%2F08%2Fmasters-of-horror-just-keep-on-doing-it-bravo-showtime%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I just saw the first episode of the new season of Showtime&#8217;s series, Masters of Horror. This episode &#8220;The Damned Thing&#8221;\u009d was based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce and directed by Tobe Hooper (can you say Texas Chainsaw Massacre?). I was so impressed by the entire first season of Masters of Horror. I liked some episodes more than others, but each one of them is a gem, a one-hour mini-movie that is far better than 90% of the ridiculous splatter-shlock I have seen lately (see my Rest Stop and Wicker Man reviews). I credit this series for<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/masters-of-horror-just-keep-on-doing-it-bravo-showtime\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masters of Horror just keep on doing it! Bravo Showtime!<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 21:35:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}