FX’s award winning horror TV series, American Horror Story uses just about every familiar device of the horror genre, and yet the show has maintained complete originality for two seasons. The reason for this is that in both seasons of American Horror Story, the interplay of characters and plot has let us experience these horror clichés from a new range of...

‘Pick Me Up’ Season 1, Episode 11 Directed by Larry Cohen Written by David J. Schow Masters of Horror is an anthology TV series created by Mick Garris which first aired on the Showtime network in 2005. Each episode is a stand alone one hour film, directed by a master horror director. Masters of Horror ran for two seasons, and is available on DVD.  In Fear...

Ten years ago, Firefly was born. And then it died. Still, with only a single season of fourteen significantly low rating episodes, and then a movie, Serenity (2005) Firefly has spawned the kind of dedicated fan culture that most creators can only dream about, unless of course that creator is Joss Whedon. Earlier this year, the cast and creators of Firefly...

‘Sick Girl’ Season 1, Episode 10 Directed by Lucky McKee Written by Sean Hood and Lucky McKee Masters of Horror is an anthology TV series created by Mick Garris which first aired on the Showtime network in 2005. Each episode is a stand alone one hour film, directed by a master horror director. Masters of Horror ran for two seasons, and is available...

666 Park Avenue is the glitzy new paranormal series from ABC, based on the 2011 novel by Gabriella Pierce. Three episodes in, the TV series still has reasonable potential and is generally enjoyable to watch, but this viewer at least isn’t hooked yet. The premise – Young up and coming couple, Jane Van Been (Rachael Taylor) and Henry Martin (Dave Annable) are...

The annual ‘Treehouse of Horror’ has been a Halloween treat for Simpsons fans since the show’s second season way back in 1990. Back then we had Homer playing the lead role in an animation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven(and Bart as the bird); the Simpson family being abducted by aliens and fearing they would be eaten in ‘Hungry are the Damned’ –...