Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns

Directed by horror expert John Carpenter, Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns concerns a man who makes his living hunting down films that are often thought lost. He sets off to find a legendary film titled "Le Fin Absolute du Monde," a movie that supposedly turned the one audience who saw it into a ...more

For his first whack at Showtime's Masters of Horror series, John Carpenter served up another satisfying trip into insanity with Cigarette Burns, a bloody, thought-provoking piece from one of the genre's most beloved filmmakers of old. Whether knowingly or not, the hour-long entry also proves to be one of the director's most topical films, unleashed upon a world whose tolerance of horrific images shrinks less and less in the Videodrome-like world of reality television and the ever-widening ...more