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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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?
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#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.
#21 - Fools' Gold
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/1989
Three construction workers find a hidden cave with treasure guarded by a troll.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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...
#24 - 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.
#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.