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John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns is the eighth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on December 16, 2005. The episode concerns rare films dealer Kirby Sweetman (Norman Reedus) who is deeply in debt and trying to keep his small independent theater open. He is hired by an old cinephile, Mr. Bellinger (Udo Kier) to find the only existing print of an elusive thirty-year old movie, La Fin Absolue du Monde (French: The Absolute End of the World), which supposedly sparked a homicidal riot during its premiere at the Sitges Film Festival after which... MORE

John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns is the eighth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on December 16, 2005. The episode concerns rare films dealer Kirby Sweetman (Norman Reedus) who is deeply in debt and trying to keep his small independent theater open. He is hired by an old cinephile, Mr. Bellinger (Udo Kier) to find the only existing print of an elusive thirty-year old movie, La Fin Absolue du Monde (French: The Absolute End of the World), which supposedly sparked a homicidal riot during its premiere at the Sitges Film Festival after which it was destroyed. The episode follows Kirby as he pursues a series of clues that lead him inexorably towards a horrific and bloody conclusion. The film resembles one of John Carpenter's previous films, the 1995 H. P. Lovecraft-inspired In the Mouth of Madness. Both films connect art with insanity; both involve the restraint of supernatural entities by artists; both explore the breakdown of civilized humanity; and both follow the descent into madness of a rational investigator who is forced to question his own conception of reality. More than a superficial similarity can also be drawn between LESS