4.0/10153 votesLoading...#1 - Their Divided Self
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1989
Siamese twins seek help from a psychologist.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Bishop
4.4/1095 votesLoading...#2 - Household Gods
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edithe Swensen
5.0/10176 votesLoading...#3 - The Legacy
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/3/1988
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.
Director: Jeffrey Wolf
Writer: John Harrison
5.0/10100 votesLoading...#4 - The Mandrake Root
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.2/10291 votesLoading...#5 - The Vampire Hunter
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/12/1988
Can the famous vampire hunter save his friend before his old enemy can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?
Director: Michael Gornick
Writer: Edithe Swensen
5.2/10103 votesLoading...#6 - The Demons
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1989
An alien accidentally conjures an insurance agent who, in order to serve his master's wishes, must summon a demon of his own.
Director: Scott Alexander
Writer: Robert Sheckley, Martin Olson
5.2/1094 votesLoading...#7 - Perchance to Dream
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/4/1990
A psychiatrist and a girl help a man who is having strange dreams that may well spell his demise.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
5.3/10227 votesLoading...#8 - Satan in the Suburbs
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jule Selbo
5.3/1097 votesLoading...#9 - Rerun
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1989
A student has somehow brought back a recently deceased TV star that pledges his undying love for her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.3/10131 votesLoading...#10 - Mr. Swlabr
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/28/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jule Selbo
5.3/1083 votesLoading...#11 - Refugee
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.3/1088 votesLoading...#12 - Malcolm
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1990
A husband rediscovers a part of himself that he thought he lost long ago when he gave up his music career for his wife.
Director: Tom Noonan
Writer: N/A
5.3/1086 votesLoading...#13 - Desirable Alien
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1991
A caseworker for the United States Immigration Service wants to unlock the mystery of her subject's alluring power.
Director: Bette Gordon
Writer: Edithe Swensen
5.5/1093 votesLoading...#14 - Micro Minds
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/4/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.6/10220 votesLoading...#15 - New York Honey
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/5/1988
A man falls for a beautiful seductress who turn out to be a giant bee.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.6/10210 votesLoading...#16 - Rouse Him Not
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/1988
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.
Director: Mark Shostrom
Writer: Michel Parry
5.6/10148 votesLoading...#17 - Taps
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Larry Charles
5.6/1093 votesLoading...#18 - Half as Old as Time
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1989
An old man finds a Fountain of Youth, but with a cost...
Director: N/A
Writer: Thomas Babe
5.6/1073 votesLoading...#19 - Talk Nice to Me
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1991
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.
Director: Ernest D. Farino
Writer: Paul Dini
5.7/10191 votesLoading...#20 - Where Is the Rest of Me?
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/26/1988
A mad doctor develops a serum that keeps dead bodies from deteriorating.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.8/10272 votesLoading...#22 - Sleeping Dragon
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/1988
Scientists discover a time capsule, unaware of the dragon that sleeps inside...
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
5.8/1099 votesLoading...#23 - Habitat
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1990
A girl volunteers to become a test study for an alien aboard its ship, only to realize the loneliness is driving her insane.
Director: Bette Gordon
Writer: N/A
5.8/1092 votesLoading...#24 - Murray's Monster
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1990
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.
Director: Scott Alexander
Writer: N/A
5.8/10165 votesLoading...#25 - The Moving Finger
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 4/26/1991
A man battles a large finger that that rises out of drain of his sink.
Director: Kenny Myers
Writer: Haskell Barkin
The Worst Episodes of Monsters
Every episode of Monsters ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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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Worst Episodes Summary
"Their Divided Self" is the worst rated episode of "Monsters". It scored 4/10 based on 153 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Michael Bishop, it aired on 2/25/1989. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Household Gods".
