Trivia / Masters of Horror

• Actor Allusion: Wheeler from "Pick Me Up" claims to be a cop and to have served in New York years ago.
• Banned in China: Episode 13, from Takashi Miike, was made illegal in New Zealand due to the presence of sexualized nudity during a torture scene.
• Creator Cameo: Shimako Iwai, the author of the novel Bokke e kyote (which served as the basis for "Imprint") appears in the adaptation episode as the torturer.
• Dawson Casting: "Fair-Haired Child", where a 24-year-old actress plays what's supposed to be a 13-year-old girl.
• Executive Veto: When Showtime came on board they imposed two vetos: no male frontal nudity and no children killing other children (though children killing adults and viceversa was allowed). "Fair Haired Child" got away with having a child transforming into a monster and killing another offscreen. "Imprint" proved too much for their stomach and they refused to air it after it was done, however.
• Missing Episode: The episode "Imprint" was never aired in the U.S. While it dealt with a lot of subject matter that American TV censors would find abhorrent (incest, prostitution, birth defects, child molestation, and abortion), it did eventually get released on DVD. An alternate interpretation holds that Showtime deliberately withheld "Imprint" from broadcast so they could publicize the DVD set as having a "too squicky for Showtime" episode.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Lucky McKee very nearly got Randy Newman to score the "Sick Girl" episode in the first season. Newman was interested but had to turn it down due to coming down with a case of chicken pox. Jaye Barnes Luckett (McKee's usual composer) ended up doing the episode.
  • Stuart Gordon originally intended to cast Jeffrey Combs as Mr. Masurewicz in "Dreams in the Witch-House", but a scheduling conflict led Campbell Lane taking the part. Combs later appeared in the Gordon-directed "The Black Cat".
  • Both George A. Romero and Roger Corman were offered to direct "Haeckel's Tale".
  • The Residents recorded a score for "Haeckel's Tale" that was ultimately unused, though it would later be released on a standalone soundtrack album.
  • In the original short story on which "Pelts" was based, the cursed coat ends up in the possession of a homeless woman. The curse does nothing to her at all, because she only wears it for much-needed warmth.
  • Due to how popular "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was with viewers and critics there was briefly talk behind the scenes of doing a follow-up, potentially as either another episode or even a full length film.
• Written by Cast Member: Steven Weber adapted the "Jenifer" comic.

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