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This cable version of Masters of Horror has it's limitations but still manages to find itself a good foothold as a decent addition to horror television. There's a lot of talent here with directors such as Stuart Gordon, John Landis, Brad Anderson Ronnie Yu and many more each taking a shot at a 45 minute mini movie made for cable. Some of the effects by KNB are fantastic. They're werewolf effect in Something With Bite is amazing, and just goes to prove that practical is almost always better than CGI. There are some low points. John Landis's entry is probably the weakest. Although on a whole I find him to be rather hit or miss himself. As a whole this series is better than the second season of Master's of Horror by a long shot. These are some of my favorite directors anyways, and it's neat to see what else they can do. It's streaming on Netflix now. If you're a fan of horror there's no reason to not watch this. It's often corny and goofy, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth your time.

This show is not excellent but it isn't bad either, each week the show seems to be improving, not to mention a more well known variation of cast members.

It is entirely up to the viewer their own points of view but in mine its worth giving it a watch, especially the new years day or eater episodes.

Unfortunately those who expect this to compare or even match up to supernatural are sadly mistaken, this show is in an element of its own and should not be compared to anything else. i think this is why the majority of people are quick to disregard this show, as they compare it to much more successful longer running shows.

who knows maybe this will turn into a long running show.

all we need to do is give it a chance.

With all the negative reviews of this show I found it important to point out a few things. For one this is a show that is made from cult horror directors/writers and its on nbc. Two most of the directors where not happy with that fact that they had to choose from a small selection of scripts and didn't have a lot of time to prepare for their episodes. On the other hand its the only network TV horror show on this summer and props to nbc for that. Spooked and Community are the two bright spots in the series thus far, in sickness and health and new years day where not very good. All the other episodes were very watchable for horror fans. Im not going to give this show a rating cause its not important. Look in it in this theory i rather have a bad football team in my city(cleveland) then none at all. All over I was disappointed with this series but ill give nbc and mick and his crew credit for trying to bring the show to network TV.

If you were ever a fan of series like Goosebumps or Are You Afraid of the Dark, this series might be at least semi-enjoyable. It's definitely cheesy, but it has its moments. If you get the chance to watch the episode with Doug Jones, don't pass it up!

This is an anthology horror series from NBC filmed in Canada. Surprisingly, the actors are top shelf with solid Canadians filling in the supporting cast. The stories are not scary but they play on the traditional horror tropes. It's a well-made series although it's not groundbreaking. There are thirteen episodes in total and only a few blander ones. It's usually a fun hour.

Well written spooky little shows that leave me begging for the next weeks contribution. If you are a Tales from the crypt fan, Masters of Horror fan or just love horror this is up your alley. I really hope to see more seasons or this to move back to Showtime or HBO! I noticed some people are unhappy with this show but I can't understand why? Being made for mainstream television the writers are doing all they can to get as much gore in there as possible. I hope to see more of these shows even if they have to do a direct to DVD type of approach. I think my favorite episodes at this point are In sickness and in health and Skin and bones. If you have not yet watched this series check it out. I think you will find it entertaining and fun.

Since "Supernatural" is in reruns, Fear Itself warrants a look for those seeking their "things-that-go-bump-in-the-night" fix. Suspenseful and gripping in sixty minutes, instead of seeing the lead characters in "Supernatural" this show features some familiar and new faces and their performances are above average but their dynamics are what make the show great with a good pinch of subtlety; never knowing what's gonna happen next. Even more impressive is despite having great production values, some of the best writers of horror fiction lend their pen to ensure good stories and keep the audience on the edge of their seat. Although its obvious its a "season replacement" for the summer, it satisfies it's core audience really well in every regard and if time persists, may knock "Supernatural" as top-dog of TV horror series.

Check it out!!

"NBC's" new horror series "Fear Itself" so far has had plenty of blood and gore as the series always has spooky stories that centers around themes of vampires, crazy ghost, and gruesome serial killers. Some of the episodes have been better than others, yet most have been to predictable as it's suspense has been to punishing and not enough of a tingle to the nerve. Also so far only about two episodes have had a good twist that was the one in which Eric Roberts stared as a P.I., and the "Family Man" episode the rest are so predictable. Still at times the suspense does remind one of "The Twilight Zone", with it's spooky feel similar to "The Hitchhiker" series and the gore and blood equals "Tales from the Crypt" in some ways. Still the series falls almost flat because of the predictable and campy stories because so many of them don't have any plot twist and no humor is involved. So really even if you like horror TV series you can be alright to pass on these feel-bad fables.

It's an anthology, which, depending, can be good or bad.

I like most of the actors, the directing was good.

I have yet watched all episodes, sort of 'hoarding' them.

There were definite twists and turns, which is always good. (You know, when you 'think' he/she 'did it', but, it turns out you're wrong.) To me, that's good writing, acting & directing.

I love all things spooky and have watched many a not-so-great show just because it has a horror element. When I watched the pilot episode of this series I thought it had potential. But the production value of the following episodes never matched the pilot, the writing got more and more clichéd and predictable, the directing is not so great (pacing and timing, anyone?), and the acting... oh my god, the acting is so bad. Where did they find these people? Last night's episode was so freaking painful to watch (I have seen better performances at grade school talent shows) I turned it off after 5 minutes.

Don't waste your time.

Come on fellows give it a chance, the series is only five episodes in and reviewers are already calling it the worst horror anthology to grace the TV! Thats not very fair. Personally, i was always worried about Masters of Horror moving to NBC, MOH was hit and miss, the first season; quite excellent in my book, the second besides Gordon's and Rob Schmidt's episodes was mediocre, the only thing making it watchable at most times was blood and tits, 'Fear Itself' has none of those simple fall backs going for it and i have to say its been holding up better than the latter season. 'The Sacrifice' and 'Eater' are fantastic, 'Family Man' and "Spooked' have their flaws but were entertaining, 'In Sickness and in Health' well, that one was horrible. I've been pleasantly surprised so far but if the rest of the episodes suck, ill be the first to admit it bites the big one but wait till the damn seasons over before you claim its the worst of the worst. I'm staying positive and looking forward to the rest of it before the verdicts out.

p.s.i will admit that title theme is the most horrible thing I've ever heard, i miss the MOH riff, oh well.

Now available on Netflix, this TV series features various supernatural as well as suspense thriller motives. Almost every disk comes with four episodes, containing a little bit of different genres, with metaphysical/mystical themes or murders with a twist.

The theme song of the series is very charming and evocative, reminiscent of the Creature Feature kind of style for those readers familiar with it.

The arrangement of the episodes, two on each side, is a little peculiar by modern standards and the menu navigation is a little cumbersome, but the plots themselves are often worth the trouble and managed to surprise me with their twist unlike most detective stories which I can solve within minutes of reading or watching. In contrast, the occasional subtlety of Fear Itself allows the answers to remain hidden for a while longer.

In my opinion, such unpredictable twists of the murder mysteries along with the variety of the truly supernatural kinds of horror make for a delightful pastime.

Although structurally the episodes are not connected, each following an entirely independent cast of characters and plot lines, I can appreciate why some episodes were placed together based on their thematic similarity or, conversely, opposition.

Overall, I really like this series but I don't think I could like it as much if I expected another Twilight Zone(which it is certainly not, lacking a host) or R.L Stine's Haunting Hour(because each episode of Fear Itself is longer). Every story is either interesting or has potential and definitely takes its time to develop the escalation of terror, very similarly to a full feature film.

I hope after reading my review you guys would at least consider the very first disk, because it had, what I consider to be, the most brilliant episode of the entire series and if you don't like even it, you would know with relative surety that Fear Itself is not for you(I don't even have to spoil your fun by naming it or numbering it because when you see it, you'll know exactly which one I meant!).

Not every episode is a 10 but overall a great addition to my horror collection, this was a great deal on ebay the DVD quality was excellent!!

Horror anthology on TV has been getting progressively worse since it hit it's pinnacle with Tales From the Crypt (TFTC). TFTC was an amazingly brilliant masterpiece of horror TV anthology series that set the bar for this type of programming as high as it could possibly be. Admittedly, TFTC jumped the shark and became a bad show in Season 7 when it moved production from USA to Britain for no reason. But that is only 1 bad Season out of 7. TFTC still provided 6 Seasons worth of perfect TV horror.

Then came Masters of Horror (MoH), and next notable TV horror anthology series. MoH was hit and miss. 8 of the 26 episodes of MoH were brilliant masterpieces. The other 18, however, ranged from mediocre to terrible; the lion's share being terrible. Despite being a bad series overall, at least that's 8 brilliant episodes of horror television that MoH contributed to the annals of great TV horror.

Then comes Fear Itself. Fear Itself is by it's very format, a vastly degraded version of MoH. TFTC which was made for HBO, MoH was made for Showtime. Both channels are not standard channels which the FCC regulates a lot and therefore both shows were able to get away with a lot more mature content than Fear Itself ever had any hope of doing on NBC. The result of this that that Fear Itself is by it's very format, a show geared for little kids. In terms of format and flexibility about what content they cannot show, Fear Itself is exactly on par with the old kids' TV shows "Goosebumps" or "Bonechillers" or "Are You Afraid of the Dark?".

However, although they are exactly on par with each other in terms of tone and what they cannot show, the *quality* of the content of Fear Itself is laughably worse than all of those kids' shows, to an extreme degree.

Fear Itself is horror anthology TV hitting rock bottom.

The 'theme song' to Fear Itself sounds like it's sung by a laboratory baboon who has just been injected by mad scientists with all kinds of wacky drugs. The 'singing' is profoundly asinine and painful to the ears. A shame that such good visuals during the opening credits are utterly ruined with that babyish assault upon the senses of a 'song'.

You may often have heard that Fear Itself is an hour long - that's wrong, don't believe it. Fear Itself is only 42 minutes long and 18 minutes of commercials. Despite having a very short 42 minute running-time, Fear Itself cannot even fill a fraction of that with meaningful content.

Fear Itself fails by trying to pad 15 minutes worth of content into 42 minutes. It's a problem with bad scripts and bad writing far more-so than running-time. The 42 minute running-time of Fear Itself is admittedly a less-than-ideal handicap for good storytelling. But Fear Itself doesn't do much of anything with the characters or plot even with the time they *do* have. In Fear Itself, the amount of content in the episode does not fit with the running-time of the episode. For example, look at the 'In Sickness and in Health' episode; 17 minutes wasted on repeating the same content over and over again (a bride panicking about a note in the Church and having inane conversations with her friends). All of that content which could *easily* have fit into 5 minutes or less.

The acting in Fear Itself is terrible across the board. As is the writing. As are the production values. As are the monster effects. As is the overall atmosphere which looks amateurish, as if it's shot with the cheapest rundown consumer camcorder you would find a local pawn shop. Definitely no suspense or scares to be found in Fear Itself. Fear Itself only employs D-List actors or worse. Sometimes, like in the episode 'Family Man', the D-List actors can surprise you and be excellent at acting. *Usually* though, they will be every bit as terrible as you expected them to be.

Almost every episode has dozens of plot-holes. To add insult to injury, the 'stories' are just rehashes of stale-old clichés that have been done a million times before.

Any viewer of Fear Itself could *undoubtedly* write *much* better dialogue, characters, and plot lines than are in Fear Itself; even someone with no talent for writing whatsoever.

A feature-length running-time is not required to tell a good story, as some have argued to try to make excuses for Fear Itself. For example, the MoH episode 'Incident on and Off a Mountain Road.' 55 minutes minus a few for opening and closing credits, and it had brilliant character & plot development and is a masterpiece in own right. Likewise with the MoH episode 'The Black Cat' which is ~57 minutes minus opening credits.

TFTC was a half-hour show, but those characters and plots were amazingly immersing and fleshed-out *despite that* in almost every single episode. In fact, some people remember TFTC as being 1 hour episodes because the episodes *feel* like they are due to being so richly-made with great characters and plots. That's *with* the opening and closing credits *and* Cryptkeeper's bookend segments before and after the content of each episode eating into the episode content time. Which just makes the accomplishment all the more remarkable.

Understandably, some horror fans want to accept Fear Itself simply because it is horror on TV, which in and of itself is a rare thing. The problem with accepting Fear Itself , despite it being garbage, is that it sets the bar for horror TV as low as it can possibly be. If that precedent is accepted, then future horror TV shows will be just as bad. Therefore, it is better to be honest about Fear Itself in order to let the makers of horror know that a good horror product is expected in the future, not more crap.

I will say at first the problem lies not with the Professional Directors, although they could definitely be doing something better. From watching these episodes I can tell that the problem lies with the writers, I mean we're talking talking about the writers of The Fly 2, Road House 2, usually not a single good horror film to their name, so what makes them think they can pull off a horror series when the last things they did were crap.

The acting is good though, the music's good, sets, props all good. It's just the awful writing. In fact, the title sequence is usually the only good thing about this series. With the title sequence, the music's awesome and the visionary's awesome, if only they had spent as much effort as they did on the actual series as they did with the titles.

This is a very mediocre stab at a genre that has been overdone, and in most cases usually much better than this. The stories are predictable and 1-dimensional. The two episodes I have seen so far had no plot progression at all, and in one case I predicted the 'twist' a mere 10 minutes into the show. 'Obvious' is the word I would use. Oh, and talk about boring... extremely.

As for acting, it's not too shabby, and music, sets, etc. are well above average. I just tend to think that there have been too many shows of this nature, and perhaps mixing in a slice of sci-fi and fantasy might make the stories less predictable.

Mediocre, predictable, over the top, generic horror bullshet! The director has never even heard of subdlety. No entertainment value as a bad movie either. Just... 2/10