Monsters — Season 2
You’ll never look at the world the same way again.
About this season
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 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 features a different monster, from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats.
Episodes (24)
1. The Face
Aired 1 October 1989 • 22 min
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.
2. Portrait of the Artist
Aired 8 October 1989 • 22 min
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.
3. A Bond of Silk
Aired 15 October 1989 • 22 min
A newlywed couple book the basement suite of a fancy hotel which turns out to be the lair of a monstrously sized arachnid.
4. Rerun
2.0Aired 22 October 1989 • 22 min
A teenage girl resurrects a recently deceased movie star that pledges his undying love for her. Her best friend enlists the formerly late actor's agent for help.
5. Love Hurts
2.0Aired 29 October 1989 • 22 min
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.
6. The Farmer's Daughter
Aired 5 November 1989 • 22 min
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.
7. Jar
3.7Aired 12 November 1989 • 22 min
While managing a remote inn near a wilderness swamp, an innkeeper makes ends meet by selling jars of items from the swamp. One particular item helps others to 'meet ends'. A curious private eye checks into the inn in search of a missing person, and meets Ann, who has brought her husband there to get him away from it all.
8. The Demons
7.0Aired 19 November 1989 • 22 min
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.
9. Reaper
Aired 26 November 1989 • 22 min
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.
10. The Mandrake Root
1.0Aired 10 December 1989 • 22 min
In her basement, a married woman finds her late grandmother's exotic plant: the mythical mandrake root, an ingredient used in black magic to create the perfect lover that unfortunately feeds on human blood.
11. Half As Old As Time
Aired 17 December 1989 • 22 min
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.
12. Museum Hearts
2.0Aired 7 January 1990 • 22 min
A lothario and two women he cheated on are trapped in a museum basement with the ancient bog body of a man-hating druid priestess, who worshiped Ceridwen.
13. Habitat
Aired 14 January 1990 • 22 min
A woman agrees to be an alien test subject, only to lose her mind with loneliness.
14. Bed and Boar
Aired 21 January 1990 • 22 min
A traveling salesman spends the night in a hotel next door to a beautiful woman and her husband, who hides a dark secret.
15. Mr. Swlabr
Aired 28 January 1990 • 22 min
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.
16. Perchance to Dream
2.0Aired 4 February 1990 • 22 min
Following a blow to the head, Alex's nightmares appear to be becoming reality. His girlfriend seeks a psychologist's help and he suggests for Alex to enter the dream world and face his subconsciousness.
17. One Wolf's Family
9.0Aired 11 February 1990 • 22 min
Anya, a girl from a family of wolves, plans to marry Stanley, but her father objects as Stanley is a were-hyena.
18. The Offering
Aired 18 February 1990 • 22 min
After receiving a head injury in a car crash, Lewis, recovering in the hospital, finds that he can see a strange creature that he believes is the source of cancer.
19. Far Below
Aired 25 February 1990 • 22 min
Sent to investigate why a subway maintenance crew is paid so highly, a nosy city official gets far more than he bargained for.
20. Micro Minds
Aired 4 March 1990 • 22 min
An astronomy student believes she has contacted an alien lifeform that is frighteningly close to earth.
21. Refugee
Aired 13 May 1990 • 22 min
A retiring disillusioned top American spy is enlisted one last time to retrieve a defecting female Soviet physicist, but an unexpected visit from the agents of Hell to the safehouse, where the two are hiding from the KGB, complicates things.
22. The Gift
Aired 20 May 1990 • 22 min
A rich kid is kidnapped for ransom by two ruthless criminals and taken to a remote cabin. In its basement, he finds a mysterious but benevolent beast-man who offers him a supernatural escape. But there's a price.
23. The Bargain
9.0Aired 27 May 1990 • 22 min
A lonely bookstore owner goes to extreme lengths to transform her appearance in order to woo a handsome customer.
24. The Family Man
Aired 3 June 1990 • 22 min
A young boy tries to protect his family from his mother's new boyfriend, who is in fact an alien, but the lad can only see the true reptile using his dead father's glasses.