Monsters
You’ll never look at the world the same way again.
Overview
Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of 2011, Monsters airs on NBC Universal's horror/suspense-themed cable channel Chiller in sporadic weekday marathons.
In a similar vein 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 of Monsters featured a different monster which the story concerned, from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats.
Similar to Tales, however, the stories in Monsters were rarely very straightforward action plots and often contained some ironic twist in which a character's conceit or greed would do him in, often with gruesome results. Adding to this was a sense of comedy often lost on horror productions which might in some instances lighten the audience's mood but in many cases added to the overall eeriness of the production.
Episodes
S01E02 Holly's House
A puppeteer for a favorite children's program starts seeing her puppet move and talk on its own...but is it all in her mind?
S01E03 New York Honey
A man falls for a beautiful seductress who turn out to be a giant bee.
S01E04 The Vampire Hunter
Can the famous vampire hunter save his friend before his old enemy can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?
S01E05 My Zombie Lover
A young woman left at home by her zombie-hunting family gets a suprise visit from an old classmate.
S01E06 Where's the Rest of Me?
A mad doctor develops a serum that keeps dead bodies from deteriorating.
S01E07 The Legacy
Dale finds the private sanctuary of Fulton Pierce, a famous, dead, horror actor. Dale can see Fulton's image in the old make-up case that was owned by the actor, and his life soon goes down...
S01E08 Sleeping Dragon
Scientists discover a time capsule, unaware of the dragon that sleeps inside...
S01E09 Pool Sharks
A pool hustler, Gabe finds himself involved in a high-stakes game (literally) with Natasha, a seductive vampire.
S01E11 Rouse Him Not
An artist draws inspiration from the house she has recently moved into. However, it has a dark history and the previous owner, a practitioner of witchcraft, has left something behind in the basement.
S01E12 Fools' Gold
A group of miners stumble upon a lost chamber with a horde of treasure - to get it, all they have to do is deal with the guardian troll.
S01E13 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...
S01E14 Parents from Space
A girl dealing with her cruel foster parents, is blessed when aliens take over their bodies.
S01E15 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...
S01E17 Taps
Suzy murders her lover, a talented tap dancer. In this take on ""The Telltale Heart,"" she cuts up the body to hide the parts...but one body part refuses to stay quiet.
S01E18 The Match Game
Four teenagers go into a haunted Victorian mansion and play a game where each tell part of a ghost story while a match burns, suddenly the story comes true.
S01E19 Rain Dance
A greedy couple are stuck in a dried-up land so as to exploit the native people of their relics. The indigenous tribe offers one last item for them, a nasty-looking statue of Masow, the God...
S01E20 The Cocoon
A detective has his psychic girlfriend try to find the identity of a wealthy woman who has miraculously survived an accident unscratched, but with no memory of who she is and is disturbed about what...
S01E22 Satan in the Suburbs
After winning a bet with Lucifer, a devil is promised a single and struggling housewife to write his memoirs and turn it into a bestseller.
S01E23 Mannikins of Horror
A nurse tries to help a patient who obsesses on perfecting his clay mannequins. But little does she know how much of a connection he actually has with them.
S01E24 La Strega
A man aims to take revenge against a shopkeeper whom he believes is a witch who killed his mother via a curse.
