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Don Coscarelli Jr. (born February 17, 1954) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. [1] He is best known for his work in horror films . His directing credits include the first four films in the Phantasm franchise , [ 2 ] as well as The Beastmaster (1982) and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002).
"Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" is the premiere episode of the first season of Masters of Horror, directed by Don Coscarelli. [1] It originally aired in North America on October 28, 2005. [1] The screenplay is based on a short story by American author Joe R. Lansdale. [1]
In 2002, director Mick Garris invited some director friends to an informal dinner at a restaurant in Sherman Oaks, California.The original ten "masters" attending were John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Don Coscarelli, Joe Dante, Guillermo del Toro, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, William Malone, and Garris himself.
Don Coscarelli resisted their efforts and was forced to audition A. Michael Baldwin and Reggie Bannister for the opportunity to reprise their roles. In the end, his efforts won him a concession: he was allowed to keep one of the two, but had to replace the other; Coscarelli chose to keep Bannister and cast James Le Gros in Baldwin's place.
"The Screwfly Solution" is the seventh episode in the second season of Masters of Horror. It is based upon the 1977 science fiction short story of the same name by Alice Sheldon (under the alias Raccoona Sheldon), credited in the film as James Tiptree, Jr.
[8] The latter provided long overdue recognition for multi-media artist Stephen Romano, whose projects included the illustrated "Shock Festival" novel and the Incident On and Off a Mountain Road episode of Showtime’s Emmy Award-winning Masters of Horror cable series (directed by Don Coscarelli).
"Dance of the Dead" is the third episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on 11 November 2005. Richard Christian Matheson adapted the episode from a 1954 short story of the same name by his father, Richard Matheson. Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan scored this episode.
"Homecoming" is the sixth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on December 2, 2005. It is loosely based on the 2002 short story "Death & Suffrage" by Dale Bailey. [1]