Based on a short story by Joe Lansdale, this volume of Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series follows the harrowing ordeal of a woman who's anything but helpless. After a serial killer called Moonface kidnaps seemingly vulnerable Ellen (Bree Turner), she's taken to a remote woodland cabin and bound to the floor with a grotty cell mate (Angus Scrimm). But little does Moonface know that Ellen intends to survive … by any means necessary.

A short story by H.P. Lovecraft springs to life in this shocking installment of the "Masters of Horror" series, directed by Stuart Gordon. In hopes of making progress on his graduate thesis, stressed-out student Walter Gilman (Ezra Godden) rents a room in a crumbling old house. But with so many distractions -- including a wall that could be a portal to another dimension and fiend with the face of a rat -- it's unlikely he'll make much headway.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper turns his lens on a postapocalyptic America, to a town in which reanimated corpses perform at the local nightclub for the entertainment of the nuclear attack's survivors. In the midst of it all, naive young Peggy (Jessica Lowndes) gets involved with a drug-stoked biker (Jonathan Tucker), moving beyond her mother's protective grasp for the first time -- and soon discovers Mom's terrible secret.

Detective Frank Spivey (Steven Weber) rescues a young woman from a depraved murderer and finds himself strangely attracted to her, despite her terribly disfigured face. Jenifer (Carrie Anne Fleming) clearly has serious mental issues, but when the curvaceous orphan seduces Spivey, he seems more than willing to overlook her problems -- until her fleshly appetites take a disturbing turn. Legendary master of horror Dario Argento (Suspiria) directs.

In this intriguing episode taken from Showtime's original series "Masters of Horror," the taste of chocolate leads to a deadly voyeuristic odyssey. Trying to put his life back together after a divorce, Jamie (Henry Thomas) inexplicably finds himself plagued by random sensory flashes and discovers that he's seeing through the eyes of a beautiful artist (Lucie Laurier) … with a penchant for murder. The supporting cast includes Matt Frewer.

Joe Dante gave us Piranha and Gremlins, but the horror doesn't stop there. In the politicized chiller Homecoming, dead soldiers come back to life to get in one last word -- by voting in the presidential election. While the U.S. is at war overseas, a political puppet says it'd be great if the martyrs of war could return to express their gratitude for serving their country. Unfortunately, he gets his wish, and the dead aren't all that grateful.

After stumbling upon a series of male murder victims who were mysteriously trampled to death during a state of sexual arousal, police detective Dwight Faraday (Brian Benben) suspects an elusive American Indian woman. On the trail for a killer, Faraday uncovers that this homicidal seductress may be more than a woman. Veteran filmmaker John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) helms this episode of the scary Showtime series "Masters of Horror."

John Carpenter directs this unsettling installment of the "Masters of Horror" series, following one man's search for the holy grail of horror cinema. Hired by a millionaire collector (Udo Kier) to retrieve the infamous Le Fin du Monde -- a violent movie that reportedly causes viewers to turn into homicidal maniacs after they watch it -- an unsuspecting theater owner (Norman Reedus) begins to fall under the film's spell.

Director William Malone's contribution to this Showtime horror series is the chilling tale of Tara, a young girl kidnapped and locked away in a basement with other teen outcasts. Slowly she realizes their fate is to be sacrificed to an evil beast to fulfill a terrible pact made with the forces of darkness. Will the children work together to escape? Or will the ghastly contract be fulfilled? Lori Petty, Lindsay Pulsipher and William Samples co-star.

A bizarre bug tries to horn in on the fleshly action of a torrid lesbian tryst in this sensual and shocking thriller from writer-director Lucky McKee. A cryptic package from Brazil containing an unusual insect arrives on the doorstep of introvert entomologist Ida Teeter (Angela Bettis). When the creepy crawly bites Ida's new lover (Misty Mundae), the sapphic couple finds their erotic affair transformed into a gruesome ménage à trois.

In the middle of nowhere, a recent divorcée (Fairuza Balk) gets tangled up in a bizarre and violent turf war between two serial killers: a crazed hitchhiker and an equally insane truck driver. Caught between these two bearers of death and destruction, the woman must choose her ally carefully or become yet another bloody victim. Larry Cohen directs this thrilling chapter of Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series.

John McNaughton directs this installment of Showtime's horror anthology series, which centers on a medical student obsessed with raising the dead. Adapted from a Clive Barker tale, the story follows young Ernst Haeckel (Derek Cecil) as he uncovers the horrible truth about a seductress (Leela Savasta) -- whose fleshly appetites extend beyond the erotic -- and her evil master (Jon Polito), a necromancer with the power to resurrect the dead.

Called "one of the most unsettling horror directors alive" by the New York Daily News, Takashi Miike lives up to that reputation with this disturbing shocker. An American journalist (Billy Drago) is searching for a prostitute in 19th-century Japan; what he finds instead is a deformed courtesan with a tale of unspeakable cruelty. Based on a Japanese horror novel, this presentation is the first uncensored version to be available in America.