Monsters
“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. 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.
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Seasons
1.The Feverman
4.022-10-1988An unusual healer is a man's last hope for his ailing daughter.
2.Holly's House
29-10-1988A puppeteer for a favorite children's program starts seeing her puppet move and talk on its own...but is it all in her mind?
3.New York Honey
1.005-11-1988A man falls for a beautiful seductress who turn out to be a giant bee.
4.The Vampire Hunter
12-11-1988Can the famous vampire hunter save his friend before his old enemy can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?
5.My Zombie Lover
2.019-11-1988A young woman left at home by her zombie-hunting family gets a suprise visit from an old classmate.
6.Where's the Rest of Me?
26-11-1988A mad doctor develops a serum that keeps dead bodies from deteriorating.
7.The Legacy
03-12-1988Dale 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...
8.Sleeping Dragon
10-12-1988Scientists discover a time capsule, unaware of the dragon that sleeps inside...
9.Pool Sharks
17-12-1988A pool hustler, Gabe finds himself involved in a high-stakes game (literally) with Natasha, a seductive vampire.
10.Pillow Talk
24-12-1988A man feeds a monster that resides in his bedroom.
11.Rouse Him Not
31-12-1988An 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 behi...
12.Fools' Gold
21-01-1989A 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.
13.Glim-Glim
04-02-1989A 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-Gli...
14.Parents from Space
11-02-1989A girl dealing with her cruel foster parents, is blessed when aliens take over their bodies.
15.The Mother Instinct
18-02-1989A 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 i...
16.Their Divided Self
25-02-1989Siamese twins seek help from a psychologist.
17.Taps
2.004-03-1989Suzy 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.
18.The Match Game
2.315-04-1989Four 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.
19.Rain Dance
22-04-1989A 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...
20.The Cocoon
2.029-04-1989A 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 di...
21.All in a Day's Work
06-05-1989A witch tries to protect herself against a demon.
22.Satan in the Suburbs
13-05-1989After winning a bet with Lucifer, a devil is promised a single and struggling housewife to write his memoirs and turn it into a bestseller.
23.Mannikins of Horror
20-05-1989A 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.
24.La Strega
27-05-1989A man aims to take revenge against a shopkeeper whom he believes is a witch who killed his mother via a curse.
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