A young woman thinks about and uses the advice from her survivalist ex-husband to survive after a car accident; Medical student Ernst Haeckel believes the power of life, death and resurrection lay in his arrogant hands; A depressed young divorced man creates artificial flavorings until the day his life is hijacked by a series of random sensory flashes; In the near future when nuclear war has turned much of our world into a wasteland and the youth of America have become drug crazed sociopaths; To a movie programmer, the holy grail of cinema is a legendary lost movie, whose sole showing was rumored to have driven its audience to a homicidal frenzy; When stressed-out student Walter Gilman rents a room in a decrepit old house, his graduate thesis studies begin to take some very strange twists.

Not rated; contains mature content.

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Incident on and off a mountain road based on the short story by Joe R. Lansdale.

Haeckel's tale based on the short story by Clive Barker.

Chocolate based on a short story by Mick Garris.

Dance of the dead based on the short story by Richard Matheson.

Dreams in the witch house based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft.

Created by Mick Garris.

Originally released in 2005.

Special features: Audio commentaries with Stuart Gordon, John Carpenter, Don Coscarelli, Joe R. Lansdale, Mick Garris, John McNaughton; working with a Master featurettes; on set: interviews with cast and crew; behind-the-scenes featurettes; script to screen featurettes; trailers; still galleries; storyboard galleries; director bios; DVD-ROM: screenplays; screen savers.

Haeckel's tale: Director of photography, Attila Szalay ; editor, Andrew Cohen ; music, Nicholas Pike.

Chocolate: Director of photography, Attila Szalay ; editor, Andrew Cohen ; music, Nicholas Pike ; production designer, David Fischer.

Dance of the dead: Director of photography, Jon Joffin ; editor, Andrew Cohen ; music, Bill Corgan ; production designer, David Fischer.

Cigarette burns: Director of photography, Attila Szalay ; editor, Patrick McMahon ; music, Cody Carpenter ; production designer, David Fischer.

Dreams in the witch house: Director of photography, Jon Joffin ; editor, Marshall Harvey ; music, Richard Band ; production designer, David Fischer.

Main title music, Edward Shearmur.

Incident on and off a mountain road cast: Bree Turner, Ethan Embry.

Haeckel's tale cast: Derek Cecil, Jon Polito.

Chocolate cast: Henry Thomas, Matt Frewer.

Dance of the dead cast: Jonathan Tucker, Robert Englund.

Cigarette burns cast: Norman Reedus, Udo Kier.

Dreams in the witch house cast: Ezra Godden.

DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo. surround.

Closed-captioned.

Incident on and off a mountain road / teleplay by Don Coscarelli & Stephen Romano ; directed by Don Coscarelli Haeckel's tale / in association with George A. Romero ; teleplay by Mick Garris ; directed by John McNaughton Chocolate / written by Mick Garris ; directed by Mick Garris

Dance of the dead / teleplay by Richard Christian Matheson ; directed by Tobe Hooper Cigarette burns / written by Drew McWeeny & Scott Swan ; directed by John Carpenter Dreams in the witch house / teleplay by Dennis Paoli & Stuart Gordon ; directed by Stuart Gordon.