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.
The best episode of "Monsters" is "The Waiting Game", rated 7.5/10 from 136 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "The Waiting Game" aired on 12/9/1990 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Match Game".
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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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
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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
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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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
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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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Two teenagers think the barber shop across the street may be a secret meeting place for town vampires.
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Writer: Dan Simmons
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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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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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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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
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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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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
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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
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A pool hustler, Gabe finds himself involved in a high-stakes game (literally) with Natasha, a seductive vampire.
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A man feeds a monster that resides in his bedroom.
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Writer: David Odell
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
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
A witch tries to protect herself against a demon.
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Writer: Jule Selbo
A patient at a nursing home makes a deal with the Grim Reaper.
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Writer: Josef Anderson
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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A nosy city official stumbles into a secret operation beneath a New York Subway.
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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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Writer: Gordon Rayfield
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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Writer: Josef Anderson
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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Writer: Ron Goulart