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Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. Similarly to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Monsters Season 1 Episode 2 - Holly's House
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    #1 - Holly's House

    S1:E2

    Katherine is the star of Holly's House, a popular children's television show. Holly herself is a remote-controlled child-size robot. When Katherine is linked to the robot via wires and radio waves, she can make Holly walk and talk like a real person. Lenny, who plays 'Mike the Mailman', has gotten Katherine pregnant and asks her to marry him. But a stressed-out Katherine begins to think Holly is talking to her, and 'Holly' becomes jealous of Lenny and others on the show. Is Katherine going mad, or is something sinister going on?

    Director:Theodore Gershuny
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Monsters Season 1 Episode 4 - The Vampire Hunter
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    #2 - The Vampire Hunter

    S1:E4

    Can famous vampire hunter Ernest Chariot save his assistant Jack before his old enemy Charles Poole can kill the young man, or worse, turn him into another bloodsucker?

    Director:Michael Gornick
    Writer:Edithe Swensen

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  3. Monsters Season 1 Episode 6 - Where's the Rest of Me?
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    #3 - Where's the Rest of Me?

    S1:E6

    In a right-wing South American dictatorship on the verge of leftist rebellion, mad scientist Dr. Willard Wingite keeps a rebel's cadaver alive to harvest its organs for his rich friends. But the undead rebel decides to get his organs back.

    Director:Richard Benner
    Writer:Richard Benner

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  4. Monsters Season 1 Episode 7 - The Legacy
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    #4 - The Legacy

    S1:E7

    Dale finds the private sanctuary of late horror icon Fulton Pierce. Dale can see Fulton's image in the old makeup case that was owned by the actor, and his life soon goes down a dark road.

    Director:Jeffrey Wolf
    Writer:John Harrison

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  5. Monsters Season 1 Episode 8 - Sleeping Dragon
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    #5 - Sleeping Dragon

    S1:E8

    A mysterious prehistoric capsule is found outside Reno. Four scientists study it, but a lizard-looking monster hatches from it. With a heavy snowstorm raging outside, they must fight for their survival.

    Director:Mark Rezyka
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  6. Monsters Season 1 Episode 9 - Pool Sharks
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    #6 - Pool Sharks

    S1:E9

    Pool hustler Gabe challenges seductive but evil Natasha to a game. The kicker is she is a vampire and he is out for revenge against her.

    Director:Alan Kingsberg
    Writer:Alan Kingsberg

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  7. Monsters Season 1 Episode 10 - Pillow Talk
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    #7 - Pillow Talk

    S1:E10

    Miles goes to great lengths to keep his bed possessed by a Lovecraftian nightmare full. But an assertive female writer who seems to fancy him challenges his status quo.

    Director:Carl Stine
    Writer:David Odell

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  8. Monsters Season 1 Episode 11 - Rouse Him Not
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    #8 - Rouse Him Not

    S1:E11

    A painter with strange visions who lives in an old cottage is visited by a warlock who used to live there. But his arrival wakes an ancient beast buried far below the cottage.

    Director:Mark Shostrom
    Writer:Michel Parry

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  9. Monsters Season 1 Episode 12 - Fools' Gold
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    #9 - Fools' Gold

    S1:E12

    Three construction workers find a hidden cave with treasure guarded by a troll.

    Director:Greg Cannom
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  10. Monsters Season 1 Episode 13 - Glim-Glim
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    #10 - Glim-Glim

    S1:E13

    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:Peter Stein
    Writer:F. Paul Wilson

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  11. Monsters Season 1 Episode 14 - Parents from Space
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    #11 - Parents from Space

    S1:E14

    An orphan named Cindy receives a blessing in disguise when her abusive foster parents are taken over by friendly aliens whose ship has broken down.

    Director:Gerald Cotts
    Writers:Peg Haller, Bob Schneider

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  12. Monsters Season 1 Episode 15 - The Mother Instinct
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    #12 - The Mother Instinct

    S1:E15

    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:David E. Smith

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  13. Monsters Season 1 Episode 16 - Their Divided Self
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    #13 - Their Divided Self

    S1:E16

    One stormy evening, Dr. Blackman tries to counsel successful professional comedians James and Robert Self, who also happen to be conjoined twins who won't stop bickering and trying to kill each other.

    Director:Frank De Palma
    Writer:Michael Bishop

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  14. Monsters Season 1 Episode 19 - Rain Dance
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    #14 - Rain Dance

    S1:E19

    During a drought, a struggling treasure hunter for profit and his vain wife get more than they bargained for when he buys a cursed rainmaking idol from an old indigenous woman who bears ill will towards the whites.

    Director:Richard Friedman
    Writer:Michael Kimball

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  15. Monsters Season 1 Episode 21 - All in a Day's Work
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    #15 - All in a Day's Work

    S1:E21

    A man haunted by his doppelgänger asks a white witch and single mother to help him raise a demon to defeat it before it takes him and her son.

    Director:Allen Coulter
    Writer:Jule Selbo

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  16. Monsters Season 1 Episode 22 - Satan in the Suburbs
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    #16 - Satan in the Suburbs

    S1:E22

    A charming devil forces a down-on-her-luck but principled suburbanite single mother to be his ghost writer, and if his biography gets published, he'll get a better position in hell. She tries to convert him to the side of goodness.

    Director:Warner Shook
    Writer:Jule Selbo

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  17. Monsters Season 1 Episode 23 - Mannikins of Horror
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    #17 - Mannikins of Horror

    S1:E23

    In an Orwellian society, a female doctor in an insane asylum tries to help her patient, a former brilliant surgeon obsessed with giving life to his clay figurines, before the institution director deems him incurable and therefore expendable.

    Director:Ernest Farino
    Writer:Josef Anderson

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  18. Monsters Season 1 Episode 24 - La Strega
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    #18 - La Strega

    S1:E24

    A young man tries to destroy a beautiful witch, whom he thinks has placed his mother under a deadly curse.

    Director:Lizzie Borden
    Writer:Michael McDowell

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  19. Monsters Season 2 Episode 1 - The Face
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    #19 - The Face

    S2:E1

    Two burgling brothers try to rob an old woman and the more ruthless of the two ends up killing her by accident after she bites him. Soon, the infected wound starts to turn into a face.

    Director:Allen Coulter
    Writer:Neal Marshall Stevens

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  20. Monsters Season 2 Episode 2 - Portrait of the Artist
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    #20 - Portrait of the Artist

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Gerald Cotts
    Writer:D. Keith Mano

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  21. Monsters Season 2 Episode 3 - A Bond of Silk
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    #21 - A Bond of Silk

    S2:E3

    A newlywed couple book the basement suite of a fancy hotel which turns out to be the lair of a monstrously sized arachnid.

    Director:Ernest Farino
    Writer:Michael Kimball

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  22. Monsters Season 2 Episode 6 - The Farmer's Daughter
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    #22 - The Farmer's Daughter

    S2:E6

    A man takes shelter at a farm for the evening, where he's surprised to be sharing a room with the farmer's pretty daughter.

    Director:Michael Warren Powell
    Writers:Bob Balaban, Kenneth Pressman

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  23. Monsters Season 2 Episode 8 - The Demons
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    #23 - The Demons

    S2:E8

    Greedy alien Arcturus tries to enslave a demon to grant his wishes, but instead gets a Chicago insurance agent named Arthur Gammet. Poor Arthur must fulfill the alien's wishes, even if it means getting a demon of his own.

    Director:Scott Alexander
    Writers:Martin Olson, Robert Sheckley

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  24. Monsters Season 2 Episode 9 - Reaper
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    #24 - Reaper

    S2:E9

    An elderly man in a nursing home, terrified of death, makes a deal with the Grim Reaper — if he gets more souls for Death, he gets to live a bit longer. Things complicate when he falls for a caring elderly nurse.

    Director:John Lafia
    Writer:Josef Anderson

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  25. Monsters Season 2 Episode 11 - Half As Old As Time
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    #25 - Half As Old As Time

    S2:E11

    Ready to pay any price to stay young, a dying old man asks his archaeologist daughter to reveal the secret location of a forbidden Native American Fountain of Youth supposedly protected by an evil snake god.

    Director:Christopher Todd
    Writer:Thomas Babe

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Holly's House" is the worst rated episode of "Monsters". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Theodore Gershuny and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/29/1988. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Vampire Hunter".