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.
72 episodes total
Status
Ended
First Aired
1988
Rating
7.1/10
23 votes • HD
People
Cast information is not available for this show.
Episodes
Episode 1 • Oct 22, 1988
An unusual healer is a man's last hope for his ailing daughter.
Episode 2 • Oct 29, 1988
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?
Episode 3 • Nov 05, 1988
A man falls for a beautiful seductress who turn out to be a giant bee.
Episode 4 • Nov 12, 1988
Can the famous vampire hunter save his friend before his old enemy can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?
Episode 5 • Nov 19, 1988
A young woman left at home by her zombie-hunting family gets a suprise visit from an old classmate.
Episode 6 • Nov 26, 1988
A mad doctor develops a serum that keeps dead bodies from deteriorating.
Episode 1 • Oct 01, 1989
When two brothers break into an old woman's house to rob her, they wind up killing her, but not before she bites one of them, leaving him with a nasty scar to remember her by.
Episode 2 • Oct 08, 1989
The art being displayed in a local exhibit may not be what it appears to be as the haunting figures hanging in the gallery resemble those of recent missing persons.
Episode 3 • Oct 15, 1989
A newlywed couple finds out you get what you pay for when they discover that their honeymoon suite is not quite what they expected.
Episode 4 • Oct 22, 1989
A student has somehow brought back a recently deceased TV star that pledges his undying love for her.
Episode 5 • Oct 29, 1989
A DMV employee begins an affair with his wife and father-in-law being the only thing holding him back. However, the seductress taps into her learned dark magic to make him all hers.
Episode 6 • Nov 05, 1989
A man takes shelter at a farm for the evening and he is surprised to be sharing a room with the farmer's pretty daughter.
Episode 1 • Sep 30, 1990
Mutant rats threaten pesticide wielding scientists in a laboratory.
Episode 2 • Oct 07, 1990
A psychiatrist with his own stress from his wife finds a solution when he discovers a sheepish patient has manifested his repressed anger in the form of a giant ape-like monster.
Episode 3 • Oct 14, 1990
A man awakes to find himself in a home where the lady of the house has a non-chalant attitude towards the bugs in her home.
Episode 4 • Oct 21, 1990
A young man expecting to be freed from prison by his rich father discoveres he's been placed in the wrong cell.
Episode 5 • Oct 28, 1990
A planetary station commander discovers the identity of a monster that operates a mining project on a hostile planet.
Episode 6 • Nov 04, 1990
A group of men find their way into a bunker during the Vietnam War, only to find that this hole hides a secret buried in its walls.
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