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This release of the whole series is an excellent opportunity to revisit an old friend and spread the word to a new generation who missed it in its initial run. Monsters is an undervalued property that a lot of people (including myself) had forgotten. There's a real moral ambiguity to the end of the story that I find quite lovely. I also have a weird affection for "Parents from Space", the Frank Gorshin starrer that had a sad little child living with abusive foster parents who are temporarily replaced by kind alien creatures stranded on our planet. It involves a doctor who can heal people by literally drawing out the sicknesses as real monsters to fight. What could go wrong, right? And then there's "The Feverman", which was the very first episode and sets a very specific tone for the series. Some of my favorites include the Meat Loaf starring "Where's the Rest of Me?", about a mad scientist doctor who develops a serum to keep the dead alive for organ transplant. Story-wise, they are on a fairly even keel, and some even rise above. They may not be up to par with the Tales from the Crypt series HBO produced in that same time frame, but I'm sure they didn't have the same budget either. They often feature some really well-done special effects and make-up of a caliber one wouldn't normally expect from such a mass-produced, non-serialized fare. The episodes are quick, running at about 22 minutes apiece, so it's easy to breeze through the collection and get caught up. It's fun to go back and watch someone like Buscemi who's so recognizable today in an early role and see how far they've come. Adrienne Barbeau from John Carpenter's The Fog shows up, as does Linda Blair, Pam Grier, Steve Buscemi, Meat Loaf, Tom Noonan, and many, many more guest stars. If you grew up on the Adam West Batman, you know him as The Riddler. The cast includes a who's who of hey-I-know-that-person players performers you may not recognize the names of immediately but that are great actors, like Frank Gorshin.
Most of them are good, and feature surprisingly strong performances for low-budget television. The episodes themselves are a little hit and miss. And much like its predecessors, it culls its tales and their morality from the old EC Comics, in which nefarious characters always experienced some twist to their tale that resulted in an unfavorable comeuppance. It was very much in the vein of Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the Darkside, or any of that ilk. It ran from 1988-1990 and was ostensibly a horror anthology about a family of monsters sitting down for family time to watch their favorite program. I was in high school when Monsters first hit the airwaves.
1988-1990, Region 1 (NTSC), 1560 minutes, Not RatedĪdrienne Barbeau as White Magic Practitioner