Alfonso Herrera

Image: ShowtimeAcross two seasons of Showtime’s Mick Garris-created anthology series, which ran from 2005-2007, you’ll find 26 eerie episodes, each around an hour long, directed by, as the title suggests, the era’s reigning masters of horror: Don Coscarelli, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, Dario Argento, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Takashi Miike, Ernest Dickerson, and others. The line-up of genre-superstar directors is all men and mostly white, so if any TV execs out there want to bring Masters of Horror back…

The Exorcist: Believer | Official TrailerThose Hollywood execs from 20 years ago smelled trouble when their Exorcist prequel wasn’t scary enough, but apparently there wasn’t that kind of oversight on Believer, which had some disturbing imagery but zero frights. The film also had a surprisingly predictable story despite being assembled from a carefully crafted list of “stuff The Exorcist movies haven’t done before,” including giving us a pair of girls possessed in tandem, and the idea that people of diverse religions…