The WORST episodes of Monsters

Every episode of Monsters ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Monsters!

Produced by Richard P. Rubinstein, producer of Tales from the Darkside, Monsters was a 30-minute weekly show that was very simple in its premise. Normally, due to budget restrictions all the scripts were written with only one or two interior scenes and a maximum of six or seven characters and always involved a monster.

Last Updated: 12/3/2024Network: SYFYStatus: Ended
Their Divided Self
star
4.00
10 votes

#1 - Their Divided Self

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1989

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

Directors: Frank DePalma
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Habitat
star
4.25
8 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: Bette Gordon
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Rerun
star
4.50
8 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: John Auerbach
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The Legacy
star
4.67
15 votes

#4 - 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.

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The Waiting Room
star
4.86
7 votes

#5 - 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.

Directors: Philip Alderton
Writer: Neal Stevens
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The Gift
star
4.88
8 votes

#6 - The Gift

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1990

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.

Directors: Jeffrey Wolf
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A New Woman
star
5.13
8 votes

#7 - A New Woman

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1990

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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Perchance to Dream
star
5.14
7 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: Paul Boyington
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Cellmates
star
5.25
8 votes

#9 - Cellmates

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1990

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

Directors: Steve Tolkin
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Werewolf of Hollywood
star
5.29
7 votes

#10 - 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.

Directors: Tom Whelan
Writer: Ron Goulart
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Love Hurts
star
5.29
7 votes

#11 - Love Hurts

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1989

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.

Directors: Manny Goto
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Rouse Him Not
star
5.36
11 votes

#12 - Rouse Him Not

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/1988

A woman living in an old country house is visited by a stranger researching a warlock who used to live there.

Directors: Mark Shostrum
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Museum Hearts
star
5.44
9 votes

#13 - Museum Hearts

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1990

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.

Directors: Ted Gerdshuny
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Hostile Takeover
star
5.50
6 votes

#14 - Hostile Takeover

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1991

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.

Directors: Randall Moldave
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Desirable Alien
star
5.50
8 votes

#15 - 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.

Directors: Bette Gordon
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Malcolm
star
5.50
6 votes

#16 - 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.

Directors: Tom Noonan
Writer: Tom Noonan
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Refugee
star
5.50
8 votes

#17 - 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.

Directors: Scott Vickrey
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Half as Old as Time
star
5.57
7 votes

#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...

Directors: Christopher Todd
Writer: Thomas Babe
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The Mandrake Root
star
5.63
8 votes

#19 - 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.

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The Face
star
5.67
12 votes

#20 - The Face

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1989

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.

Directors: Allan Coulter
Writer: Neal Stevens
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La Strega
star
5.67
9 votes

#21 - La Strega

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/27/1989

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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The Vampire Hunter
star
5.69
26 votes

#22 - 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?

Directors: Michael Gornick
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Outpost
star
5.75
8 votes

#23 - Outpost

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1990

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

Directors: T.K. Hudson
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The Demons
star
5.80
10 votes

#24 - 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.

Directors: Scott Alexander
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Micro Minds
star
5.86
7 votes

#25 - 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.

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