The original ten "masters" attending were John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Don Coscarelli, Joe Dante, Guillermo del Toro, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, Bill Malone, and Garris himself.

For those not in the grade-Z movie know, the items in question are beasts, blood, and breasts , a cavalcade of craven film facets that turn an otherwise routine piece of genre trash into a high flying horror/humor treat.