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Monsters
1988 - 1991 7.0 (22 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Mystery Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama
Networks
Syfy
Chiller
Created By
Richard P. Rubinstein
Mitchell Galin

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.

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Seasons

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Season 1 (1988)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Feverman
1988-10-22

An unusual healer is a man's last hope for his ailing daughter.

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Episode 2: Holly's House
1988-10-29

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?

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Episode 3: New York Honey
1988-11-05

A man falls for a beautiful seductress who turn out to be a giant bee.

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Episode 4: The Vampire Hunter
1988-11-12

Can the famous vampire hunter save his friend before his old enemy can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?

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Episode 5: My Zombie Lover
1988-11-19

A young woman left at home by her zombie-hunting family gets a suprise visit from an old classmate.

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Episode 6: Where Is the Rest of Me?
1988-11-26

A mad doctor develops a serum that keeps dead bodies from deteriorating.

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Episode 7: The Legacy
1988-12-03

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 a dark road.

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Episode 8: Sleeping Dragon
1988-12-10

Scientists discover a time capsule, unaware of the dragon that sleeps inside...

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Episode 9: Pool Sharks
1988-12-17

A pool hustler, Gabe finds himself involved in a high-stakes game (literally) with Natasha, a seductive vampire.

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Episode 10: Pillow Talk
1988-12-24

A man feeds a monster that resides in his bedroom.

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Episode 11: Rouse Him Not
1988-12-31

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.

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Episode 12: Fools' Gold
1989-01-21

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.

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Episode 13: Glim-Glim
1989-02-04

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.

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Episode 14: Parents from Space
1989-02-11

A girl dealing with her cruel foster parents, is blessed when aliens take over their bodies.

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Episode 15: The Mother Instinct
1989-02-18

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.

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Episode 16: Their Divided Self
1989-02-25

Siamese twins seek help from a psychologist.

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Episode 17: Taps
1989-03-04

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.

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Episode 18: The Match Game
1989-04-15

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.

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Episode 19: Rain Dance
1989-04-22

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 of Death, who is said to promise rain at the expense of a sacrifice.

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Episode 20: Cocoon
1989-04-29

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 she sees.

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Episode 21: All in a Day's Work
1989-05-06

A witch tries to protect herself against a demon.

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Episode 22: Satan in the Suburbs
1989-05-13

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.

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Episode 23: Mannequins of Horror
1989-05-20

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.

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Episode 24: La Strega
1989-05-27

A 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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Season 2 (1989)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Face
1989-10-01

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.

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Episode 2: Portrait of the Artist
1989-10-08

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.

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Episode 3: A Bond of Silk
1989-10-15

A newlywed couple finds out you get what you pay for when they discover that their honeymoon suite is not quite what they expected.

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Episode 4: Rerun
1989-10-22

A student has somehow brought back a recently deceased TV star that pledges his undying love for her.

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Episode 5: Love Hurts
1989-10-29

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.

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Episode 6: The Farmer's Daughter
1989-11-05

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.

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Episode 7: Jar
1989-11-12

A private detective looking for a missing person discovers an innkeeper who sells mysterious jars.

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Episode 8: The Demons
1989-11-19

An alien accidentally conjures an insurance agent who, in order to serve his master's wishes, must summon a demon of his own.

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Episode 9: Reaper
1989-11-26

A patient at a nursing home makes a deal with the Grim Reaper.

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Episode 10: The Mandrake Root
1989-12-10

While cleaning her grandmother's house, Angela finds a strange plant growing in the basement. It soon grows into what was once her grandmother's lover who soon seduces her, but has an increasing thirst for blood.

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Episode 11: Half as Old as Time
1989-12-17

An old man finds a Fountain of Youth, but with a cost...

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Episode 12: Museum Hearts
1990-01-07

A cheating man finds himself locked after-hours in a museum with three women: his girlfriend; the woman he's cheating on her with; and the reanimated body of a Druid priestess, who claims to be the spirit of woman.

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Episode 13: Habitat
1990-01-14

A girl volunteers to become a test study for an alien aboard its ship, only to realize the loneliness is driving her insane.

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Episode 14: Bed and Boar
1990-01-21

A traveling salesman spends the night in a hotel next door to a beautiful woman and her husband, who hides a dark secret.

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Episode 15: Mr. Swlabr
1990-01-28

Roy Barton lives a life of misery. Since his dad left he has been made into a slave, serving his mother and sister hand and foot. Hope comes in the form of a creature who calls himself ""Swlabr"". With help from Swlabr, Roy is able to turn the tables on his pesky family.

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Episode 16: Perchance to Dream
1990-02-04

A psychiatrist and a girl help a man who is having strange dreams that may well spell his demise.

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Episode 17: One Wolf's Family
1990-02-11

A family of werewolves attempt to assimilate into modern American society.

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Episode 18: The Offering
1990-02-18

After receiving a head injury in a car crash, a man recovering in the hospital finds that he can see a strange creature that he believes is the source of cancer.

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Episode 19: Far Below
1990-02-25

A nosy city official stumbles into a secret operation beneath a New York Subway.

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Episode 20: Micro Minds
1990-03-04

A couple of scientists make a dramatic breakthrough when an antenna finds a signal from intelligent life. However, the world of these beings turns out not to be swimming in a sea of stars, but in a mere tank.

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Episode 21: Refugee
1990-05-13

An American secret agent finds himself being tasked with one more mission. He is to help a Soviet scientist, but finds that the forces he is to help her escape from are more dangerous than the Russians.

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Episode 22: The Gift
1990-05-20

A young boy has been kidnapped and locked in the basement of a cabin where he meets and befriends a strange beast he discovers to be a man with many powers. He can help them escape their captors, but there are unfortunate limits to such abilities.

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Episode 23: The Bargain
1990-05-27

A homely owner of a bookshop is very much in love with a frequent customer who barely seems to know she exists. When she calls a number in a very old magazine, she finds that they are in business and willing to sell her a mask that will guarantee her the beauty that will catch the man's attention.

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Episode 24: The Family Man
1990-06-03

A young boy tries to protect his family from an alien, whom he can only see using his dead father's glasses.

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Season 3 (1990)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Stressed Environment
1990-09-30

Mutant rats threaten pesticide wielding scientists in a laboratory.

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Episode 2: Murray's Monster
1990-10-07

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.

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Episode 3: Bug House
1990-10-14

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.

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Episode 4: Cellmates
1990-10-21

A young man expecting to be freed from prison by his rich father discoveres he's been placed in the wrong cell.

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Episode 5: Outpost
1990-10-28

A planetary station commander discovers the identity of a monster that operates a mining project on a hostile planet.

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Episode 6: The Hole
1990-11-04

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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Episode 7: Small Blessings
1990-11-11

A young family tries to cope with having a meat hungry deformed baby.

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Episode 8: A Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites
1990-11-18

Two teenagers think the barber shop across the street may be a secret meeting place for town vampires.

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Episode 9: The Young and the Headless
1990-11-25

The marriage of a couple of doctors become problematic when the woman's presumed-to-be-dead husband returns and she finds herself still allured to the hunk despite her better judgement. After finding success with animating a headless parrot, the two decide to use the numbskull of a third wheel to take their work to another level.

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Episode 10: The Waiting Game
1990-12-09

After a nuclear blowout, only two factions remain. Humans inside of a small locked shelter, and nuclear holocaust vampires. With the two sides only separated by a small digital code on the outside of the shelter.

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Episode 11: Sin-Sop
1990-12-09

A sort of faith healer has set up a kind of distillery for paying customers. What was once the most sinful man is now a living conduit to drain people of their sins.

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Episode 12: A New Woman
1990-12-16

As a rich, elderly man lays dying, his cold-hearted mistress threatens what maybe his last morale act on earth. For her soulless intents, the man's mysterious doctor promises her a haunting that very well may change her outlook.

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Episode 13: Malcolm
1990-12-23

A husband rediscovers a part of himself that he thought he lost long ago when he gave up his music career for his wife.

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Episode 14: Household Gods
1990-12-30

When a recent mother tries to go back to work while maintaining some housework, she finds things going awry. To her disbelief she finds out that her lifestyle is defying the domestic gods.

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Episode 15: The Space Eaters
1991-01-06

Two men encounter a victim who claims his brain was eaten. After confirming the story, they attempt to fight off the alien invader responsible.

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Episode 16: The Waiting Room
1991-01-13

A father brings his son and his new wife to a hotel where he and his wife once stayed. It seems that there is a specific reason for this, one that has to do with a promise he broke to a woman he encountered in a room that exists only in the dark.

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Episode 17: Leavings
1991-01-21

Two police officers are disturbed by recent sightings of people who are missing body parts and others who appear to have been almost put together from other parts. However, the oddest thing is the blasé reaction of their supervisor upon hearing their stories.

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Episode 18: Desirable Alien
1991-01-27

A caseworker for the United States Immigration Service wants to unlock the mystery of her subject's alluring power.

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Episode 19: A Face for Radio
1991-02-03

A smart-mouth host of a late-night radio show is beguiled by a female guest who claims she was abducted by aliens and that they gave her a creature to help rid the planet of evil.

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Episode 20: Werewolf of Hollywood
1991-02-10

A screenwriter it tasked to pen a horror film with the unique premise of a werewolf in the position of an executive. But things starting getting a bit bloody when it seems that it hits a nerve with someone in the studio.

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Episode 21: Talk Nice to Me
1991-02-17

A columnist and lady's man is harassed by a woman via the phone, but he can't figure out who she is, how she seems to know what's going on in his apartment all the time, or how she manages to get into his place without him seeing her.

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Episode 22: Hostile Takeover
1991-02-24

A cut-throat CEO is making good business with the help of voodoo, but doesn't find out until it's too late that it comes with a very high price.

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Episode 23: The Maker
1991-04-18

A bum encounters a man with the power to create anything he desires.

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Episode 24: The Moving Finger
1991-04-26

A man battles a large finger that that rises out of drain of his sink.

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