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Monsters

Monsters

★ 7.0/10•1988•22m•TV-14•Sci-Fi & Fantasy•Mystery•Comedy
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You’ll never look at the world the same way again.

Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. Similarly to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and in some ways succeeded the show. It differed in some respects nonetheless. While Tales sometimes dabbled in stories of science fiction and fantasy, this series was more strictly horror. As the name implies, each episode features a different monster, from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats.

StatusEnded
Runtime22m
LanguageEN
First Air DateOct 22, 1988

Episodes

Episode 1 - The FevermanE122m

The Feverman

When a doctor is unable to heal a man's sick daughter, the desperate father goes to a 'Feverman', a mysterious healer who literally fights the illness by summoning a physical manifestation of it from within the patient. The doctor, angry at the father's belief in superstition, tries to expose the Feverman as a fraud. In doing so, not only does he learn the truth, but there's also a price to pay for faith.

Oct 22, 1988

Episode 2 - Holly's HouseE222m

Holly's House

Katherine is the star of Holly's House, a popular children's television show. Holly herself is a remote-controlled child-size robot. When Katherine is linked to the robot via wires and radio waves, she can make Holly walk and talk like a real person. Lenny, who plays 'Mike the Mailman', has gotten Katherine pregnant and asks her to marry him. But a stressed-out Katherine begins to think Holly is talking to her, and 'Holly' becomes jealous of Lenny and others on the show. Is Katherine going mad, or is something sinister going on?

Oct 29, 1988

Episode 3 - New York HoneyE322m

New York Honey

A greedy married man blackmails his eccentric beekeeper neighbor to profit off his tasty honey. He also falls for the beekeeper's mysterious, seductive vamp girlfriend.

Nov 5, 1988

Episode 4 - The Vampire HunterE422m

The Vampire Hunter

Can famous vampire hunter Ernest Chariot save his assistant Jack before his old enemy Charles Poole can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?

Nov 12, 1988

Episode 5 - My Zombie LoverE522m

My Zombie Lover

One night each year, the dead come back to life. A young zombie falls for his living female classmate but his hunger for human flesh and her prejudiced, zombie hunter father stand in the way of their happiness.

Nov 19, 1988

Episode 6 - Where's the Rest of Me?E622m

Where's the Rest of Me?

In a right-wing South American dictatorship on the verge of leftist rebellion, mad scientist Dr. Willard Wingite keeps a rebel's cadaver alive to harvest its organs for his rich friends. But the undead rebel decides to get his organs back.

Nov 26, 1988

Episode 7 - The LegacyE722m

The Legacy

Dale finds the private sanctuary of late horror icon Fulton Pierce. Dale can see Fulton's image in the old makeup case that was owned by the actor, and his life soon goes down a dark road.

Dec 3, 1988

Episode 8 - Sleeping DragonE822m

Sleeping Dragon

A mysterious prehistoric capsule is found outside Reno. Four scientists study it, but a lizard-looking monster hatches from it. With a heavy snowstorm raging outside, they must fight for their survival.

Dec 10, 1988

Episode 9 - Pool SharksE922m

Pool Sharks

Pool hustler Gabe challenges seductive but evil Natasha to a game. The kicker is she is a vampire and he is out for revenge against her.

Dec 17, 1988

Episode 10 - Pillow TalkE1022m

Pillow Talk

Miles goes to great lengths to keep his bed possessed by a Lovecraftian nightmare full. But an assertive female writer who seems to fancy him challenges his status quo.

Dec 24, 1988

Episode 11 - Rouse Him NotE1122m

Rouse Him Not

A painter with strange visions who lives in an old cottage is visited by a warlock who used to live there. But his arrival wakes an ancient beast buried far below the cottage.

Dec 31, 1988

Episode 12 - Fools' GoldE1222m

Fools' Gold

Three construction workers find a hidden cave with treasure guarded by a troll.

Jan 21, 1989

Episode 13 - Glim-GlimE1322m

Glim-Glim

A mysterious disease has killed most of the people in town and Amy's father believes that the hideous alien holed up in the library is responsible. But as Amy soon learns, Glim-Glim may be their only hope for survival.

Feb 4, 1989

Episode 14 - Parents from SpaceE1422m

Parents from Space

An orphan named Cindy receives a blessing in disguise when her abusive foster parents are taken over by friendly aliens whose ship has broken down.

Feb 11, 1989

Episode 15 - The Mother InstinctE1522m

The Mother Instinct

A slimy, good-for-nothing husband tries to get money from his mother-in-law, especially when he finds out that her fruit can produce a serum that can boost the human strength. He is prepared to do anything to get rich from it, but hasn't counted on just how protective a mother can be.

Feb 18, 1989

Episode 16 - Their Divided SelfE1622m

Their Divided Self

One stormy evening, Dr. Blackman tries to counsel successful professional comedians James and Robert Self, who also happen to be conjoined twins who won't stop bickering and trying to kill each other.

Feb 25, 1989

Episode 17 - TapsE1722m

Taps

Professional dancer/actress Suzy St. Claire wants independence from her possessive dancing partner and boyfriend, so she poisons and dismembers him. However, his severed leg in a red tap shoe seeks revenge.

Mar 4, 1989

Episode 18 - The Match GameE1822m

The Match Game

In a haunted Victorian mansion, two couples play a game where each person tells part of a ghost story about the late former owner while a match burns. The story somehow comes true, and he rises from the grave to take their lives.

Apr 15, 1989

Episode 19 - Rain DanceE1922m

Rain Dance

During a drought, a struggling treasure hunter for profit and his vain wife get more than they bargained for when he buys a cursed rainmaking idol from an old indigenous woman who bears ill will towards the whites.

Apr 22, 1989

Episode 20 - CocoonE2022m

Cocoon

A cop asks his psychic girlfriend to help a beautiful amnesiac remember who she is. It turns out she's a woman who feeds on the life energies of her lovers in order to maintain eternal youth.

Apr 29, 1989

Episode 21 - All in a Day's WorkE2122m

All in a Day's Work

A man haunted by his doppelgänger asks a white witch and single mother to help him raise a demon to defeat it before it takes him and her son.

May 6, 1989

Episode 22 - Satan in the SuburbsE2222m

Satan in the Suburbs

A charming devil forces a down-on-her-luck but principled suburbanite single mother to be his ghost writer, and if his biography gets published, he'll get a better position in hell. She tries to convert him to the side of goodness.

May 13, 1989

Episode 23 - Mannikins of HorrorE2322m

Mannikins of Horror

In an Orwellian society, a female doctor in an insane asylum tries to help her patient, a former brilliant surgeon obsessed with giving life to his clay figurines, before the institution director deems him incurable and therefore expendable.

May 20, 1989

Episode 24 - La StregaE2422m

La Strega

A young man tries to destroy a beautiful witch, whom he thinks has placed his mother under a deadly curse.

May 27, 1989

Recommendations

Tales from the Darkside
Creepshow
American Horror Stories
Freddy's Nightmares
The Twilight Zone
Masters of Horror
The Hunger
Fear Itself
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Inside No. 9
The Terror
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
Castle Rock
Tales from the Crypt
The Outer Limits
Lore
Them
Solos
Monsterland
Tales from the Loop

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