7.5/10142 votesLoading...#1 - The Waiting Game
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10209 votesLoading...#2 - The Match Game
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/1989
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.
Director: Michael Brandon
Writer: N/A
7.3/10258 votesLoading...#3 - Mannequins of Horror
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/20/1989
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.
Director: Ernest D. Farino
Writer: Josef Anderson
7.2/10310 votesLoading...#4 - Glim-Glim
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10126 votesLoading...#5 - A Bond of Silk
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1989
A newlywed couple finds out you get what you pay for when they discover that their honeymoon suite is not quite what they expected.
Director: Ernest D. Farino
Writer: N/A
7.2/10133 votesLoading...#6 - The Hole
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10114 votesLoading...#7 - A Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1990
Two teenagers think the barber shop across the street may be a secret meeting place for town vampires.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dan Simmons
7.1/10112 votesLoading...#8 - The Waiting Room
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1991
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1088 votesLoading...#9 - Sin-Sop
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1087 votesLoading...#10 - The Space Eaters
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1991
Two men encounter a victim who claims his brain was eaten. After confirming the story, they attempt to fight off the alien invader responsible.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/10142 votesLoading...#11 - The Mother Instinct
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1989
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.
Director: Bette Gordon
Writer: N/A
6.9/10132 votesLoading...#12 - The Farmer's Daughter
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/10107 votesLoading...#13 - The Bargain
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/27/1990
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.
Director: Tom Noonan
Writer: N/A
6.8/10293 votesLoading...#14 - Pool Sharks
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/1988
A pool hustler, Gabe finds himself involved in a high-stakes game (literally) with Natasha, a seductive vampire.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10174 votesLoading...#15 - Pillow Talk
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/24/1988
A man feeds a monster that resides in his bedroom.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Odell
6.8/10148 votesLoading...#16 - All in a Day's Work
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1989
A witch tries to protect herself against a demon.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jule Selbo
6.8/10112 votesLoading...#17 - The Offering
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/18/1990
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.
Director: Ernest D. Farino
Writer: Dan Simmons
6.8/1084 votesLoading...#18 - Leavings
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/21/1991
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.
Director: John Tillinger
Writer: Gahan Wilson
6.8/1079 votesLoading...#19 - A Face for Radio
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1991
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.
Director: Bruce Feirstein
Writer: N/A
6.7/1095 votesLoading...#20 - Reaper
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1989
A patient at a nursing home makes a deal with the Grim Reaper.
Director: N/A
Writer: Josef Anderson
6.7/10116 votesLoading...#21 - Far Below
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/25/1990
A nosy city official stumbles into a secret operation beneath a New York Subway.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10105 votesLoading...#22 - The Family Man
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 6/3/1990
A young boy tries to protect his family from an alien, whom he can only see using his dead father's glasses.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gordon Rayfield
6.7/10100 votesLoading...#23 - Bug House
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Josef Anderson
6.7/1089 votesLoading...#24 - Werewolf of Hollywood
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1991
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ron Goulart
6.7/1073 votesLoading...#25 - The Maker
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/18/1991
A bum encounters a man with the power to create anything he desires.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Monsters
Every episode of Monsters ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Monsters!
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...
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Best Episodes Summary
"The Waiting Game" is the best rated episode of "Monsters". It scored 7.5/10 based on 142 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/9/1990. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Match Game".