Monsters TV Series

[nada]

I've been waiting for this series to come to DVD for a while now (unfortunately I don't think it will ever happen). It's brilliant! Probably the best of the horror/sci-fi anthologies that were popular in the 80s.

Here is one of a handful of episodes that are available on youtube:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTna35-ibl0

[trekgeezer]

This is one of the most cheaply produced shows I've ever seen. Typically the action takes place on a single set with no more than 3 or 4 actors involved.  It does benefit from a kind of sitcom feel.  From the episodes I've seen I find it mildly amusing, but not the least bit terrifying.

It is showing on Chiller, but I think that channel is still limited to Directv.

[HappyGilmore]

I watched this when I was like, 5.  Good stuff.

[JPickettIII]

I love this show.  I watch almost all the time.  I remember watching this and "Tales From The Darkside."  If Monsters comes out on DVD, I will snatch it up.

It is a little cheesy, but also very creative at the same time.

I give two thumbs up and a Karma for liking the show.

[AndyC]

I used to watch this on some channel out of Buffalo (where Ontario cable subscribers used to get all their American shows). It was on late Friday nights for a while around 1990-ish. I thought it was cheap, but clever and fun.

My favourite episode has to be the one with Richard Moll as an alien sorcerer trying to summon a demon. He substitutes an ingredient and gets an accountant. The show had some nice dark episodes, but some really good tongue-in-cheek episodes as well.

Being shown so late, it obviously had trouble finding sponsors, so I didn't see it for long. The last little while, the station actually stuck the name of some local business right into the title. It became "Claude Electric Monsters." Pretty lame, but you have to give them credit for being creative in attracting advertisers. Don't know whether it was the salesman's idea or Claude's, but somebody must have really wanted to keep that show on the air.

[hdjanks]

this show had nothing on " Tales from the darkside" It was a good try though.

[316zombie]

picked this up om ebay a month ago,a very funny series!

[nada]

picked this up om ebay a month ago,a very funny series!

Really?? Was it a bootleg copy or a real one?

[akiratubo]

A few episodes of "Monsters" were actually very, very good.  (One about a reptilian creature a few hundred million years old springs to mind.)  Most were generic horror anthology show episodes (the vampire episode, the zombie episode, the alien episode, the psycho episode).  Some were very, very bad.

It was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Tales From the Crypt.  I'd buy it if it came out on DVD.

[316zombie]

it's a bootleg from the uk,i think,i'm not very good at figuring out what's bootleg and what isn't,but it only cost me 20 bucks,including shipping.the drawback for most people is that its PAL format.

[WingedSerpent]

I forget if it was Tales from the Darkside or Monsters (I think it was Tales) but it had one of my favorite "life lessons" from a show.  A skeptic visits a freak show and then has dies as he finds out the monsters are real.  The ring master says (I'm paraphrasing here, so it's not 100% accurate) "A man he sees a ghost and believes is only afraid-a man how sees a ghost but doesn't belive is not only afraid but has his entire world view broken."  Invest in a sense of wonder!

[JJ80]

This used to play on Channel 5 in the U.K around 2000. It wasn't too bad as a pleasant time-passer although it was seemingly very cheaply made. The make-up effects were always excellent though. I recall a few decent episodes:

-A housewife offending her 'household Demon'.
-A man eating plutonium to defeat a monster that preys on cancer victims.
-A ghoulish version of "A Christmas Carol".
-One about immigrant werewolves and a 'Werehyena' and their class system.
-American soldiers fighting a subterranean monster in Vietnam.
-Two vastly different Siamese twins who are pop stars and eventually murder those exploiting them.
-A woman being studied in an enclosed cell by a very unconvincing grey alien.
-Gold miners upsetting an angry troll in a cave.
-A black woman using voodoo to steal a man from his girlfriend.
-A man-eating monster hiding inside a weirdos bed.

[SynapticBoomstick]

Whoa, I remember this show, it was great! If this does make it to DVD I'd shell out some green for it. No single episode springs to mind, I just recall that I used to watch it all the time on Scifi, I believe (unsure).

[renzino]

I remember Monsters.

It was a good show they use to show it late every Satuday night on CBS after Freddy's Nightmares.

I agree it should be on DVD.

[akiratubo]

I forget if it was Tales from the Darkside or Monsters (I think it was Tales) but it had one of my favorite "life lessons" from a show.  A skeptic visits a freak show and then has dies as he finds out the monsters are real.  The ring master says (I'm paraphrasing here, so it's not 100% accurate) "A man he sees a ghost and believes is only afraid-a man how sees a ghost but doesn't belive is not only afraid but has his entire world view broken."  Invest in a sense of wonder!

Tales From the Crypt.  The ringmaster was Brother Theodore.