Masters of Terror All-Star Filmographies (2021): Masters of Terror

By Steve Hutchison

This book contains the gamified synopses and ratings of hundreds of dark films written, directed, and inspired by some of the greatest horror authors, screenwriters, and directors, including franchise installments based on their work. The films are ranked.

In this edition, Steve Hutchison covers the filmographies of Adam Green, Bram Stoker, Brian Yuzna, Charles Band, Clive Barker, Dario Argento, David Cronenberg, Don Coscarelli, Don Mancini, Edgar Allan Poe, Eli Roth, Frank Darabont, George Romero, H.G. Wells, H.P. Lovecraft, James Wan, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, John Landis, Larry Cohen, Leigh Whannell, Lloyd Kaufman, M. Night Shyamalan, Mary Shelley, Mick Garris, Mike Flanagan, Rob Zombie, Roger Corman, Sam Raimi, Stephen King, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, Tom Holland, and Wes Craven.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steve Hutchison
• Release date: Apr 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781778871931

Steve Hutchison

Artist, developer and entrepreneur in film, video games and communications Steve Hutchison co-founded Shade.ca Art and Code in 1999, then Terror.ca and its French equivalent Terreur.ca in 2000. With his background as an artist and integrator, Steve worked on such games as Capcom's Street Fighter, PopCap's Bejeweled, Tetris, Bandai/Namco's Pac-Man and Mattel's Skip-Bo & Phase 10 as a localization manager, 2-D artist and usability expert. Having acquired skills in gamification, he invented a unique horror movie review system that is filterable, searchable and sortable by moods, genres, subgenres and antagonists. Horror movie fans love it, and so do horror authors and filmmakers, as it is a great source of inspiration. In March 2013, Steve launched Tales of Terror, with the same goals in mind but with a much finer technology and a complex engine, something that wasn’t possible initially. He has since published countless horror-themed books.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe #1

Two Evil Eyes

1990

Two stories of twisted romance by Edgar Allan Poe are presented.

Edgar Allan Poe #2

Extraordinary Tales

2013

A crow listens to five tales told by origami statues.

Edgar Allan Poe #3

The Tell-Tale Heart

2016

A veteran develops an obsession for the man that shelters him.

Edgar Allan Poe #4

The Pit and the Pendulum

1991

In 1492 Toledo, Spain, a monk instigates torture and execution.

Edgar Allan Poe #5

Tales of Terror

1962

A man presents three stories of shock and horror.

Edgar Allan Poe #6

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971

An inspector investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Paris theatre.

Edgar Allan Poe #7

The Oblong Box

1969

An aristocrat keeps his disfigured brother locked in a tower of his house, unaware that he has found a way out.

Edgar Allan Poe #8

The Tell Tale Heart

2020

A man is interrogated following the death of an elder he took care of.

Edgar Allan Poe #9

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven

2011

A drunk writer finds inspiration in the words of a raven sitting above his door.

Edgar Allan Poe #10

Lighthouse Keeper

2016

Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by specters, a man must confront grotesque denizens of the night.

Edgar Allan Poe #11

The Haunting of Morella

1990

A witch’s daughter inherits more from her dead mother than money.

Edgar Allan Poe #12

Die Pest in Florenz

1919

Days of romance and debauchery, in 1348 Florence, are interrupted by Death itself.

Edgar Allan Poe #13

The Black Cat

1981

A cat kills everyone it comes across.

Edgar Allan Poe #14

Tell

2012

Tortured by guilt, a murderer undergoes the consequences of his selfish act.

Edgar Allan Poe #15

New Chilling Tales: The Anthology

2019

An actor tells three Gothic tales of terror.

Edgar Allan Poe #16

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

1954

When several women are found murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be.

Edgar Allan Poe #17

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1932

A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape.

Edgar Allan Poe #18

Spirits of the Dead

1968

Three people meet dark fates.

Edgar Allan Poe #19

The Raven

2015

A grieving widower is visited by a talking raven.

Edgar Allan Poe #20

The Tell-Tale Heart

2006

A man is driven mad by his elderly demented father’s malformation.

Edgar Allan Poe #21

The Black Cat

1995

A prisoner tells the tale of the cat that drove him mad.

Edgar Allan Poe #22

Mea Maxima Culpa

2010

A butler fantasizes about killing his master.

Edgar Allan Poe #23

The Raven

2007

A lavish masquerade party in a mansion takes a terrifying turn when a masked killer crashes the party.

Edgar Allan Poe #24

The Tell-Tale Heart

1953

A lonely man documents the events that drove him mad.

Edgar Allan Poe #25

The Raven

1935

A surgeon saves the life of a dancer and goes mad when he fails to seduce her.

Edgar Allan Poe #26

The Black Cat

1941

The greedy relatives of an old woman gather in anticipation of her death.

Edgar Allan Poe #27

The Cask of Amontillado

2013

In 1849 New Orleans, a prankster tricks his friend one too many times.

Edgar Allan Poe #28

The Black Cat

1934

Newlyweds become trapped in the home of a Satan worshiper.

Edgar Allan Poe #29

Edgar Allan Poe’s the Man of the Crowd

2014

A young man sees a mysterious old man at an art gallery and decides to follow him through the night.

Edgar Allan Poe #30

The Fall of the House of Usher

1948

A traveler sets foot in his friend’s mansion, whose sister is terminally ill.

Edgar Allan Poe #31

The Fall of the House of Usher

1976

A man journeys to a strange house and becomes enmeshed in the darkness that threatens to destroy its owners.

Edgar Allan Poe #32

The Raven... Nevermore

1999

A raven visits a distraught lover, witnessing his fall into madness.

Edgar Allan Poe #33

The Tell-Tale Heart

1941