- Monsters!
-
"Monsters!" The Twilight Zone episode
Scene from Monsters!Episode no. Season 1
Episode 15aDirected by B.W.L. Norton Written by Robert Crais Original air date January 24, 1986 Guest stars Ralph Bellamy : Emile Francis Bendictson
Oliver Robins : Toby Michaels
Bruce Solomon : Mr. Michaels
Lewis Dauber : Lou
Kathleen Lloyd : Mrs. MichaelsEpisode chronology ← Previous
"The Misfortune Cookie"Next →
"A Small Talent for War"List of Twilight Zone episodes "Monsters!" is the first segment of the fifteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
Contents
Synopsis
Toby Michaels and his father are monster fanatics and Toby's room is full of monster movie memorabilia. When a new neighbor moves in, Toby goes next door to see if there are any children to play with. He meets the neighbor, Emile Bendictson, who notices Toby's monster interest and his vast collection through the window. In the course of the conversation, Emile reveals that he is a vampire, but Toby does not believe him because Emile is outside and it is still daylight. Emile just laughs it off, but Toby goes home to tell his tale to his parents. They, of course, dismiss it too.
Toby decides to spy on Emile, who has enough strength to lift the front end of his car while polishing it. Toby gets caught by Emile and tries to protect himself with garlic and a crucifix. Emile laughs and tells him that most of what he has read about vampires are not accurate. To illustrate this, Emile treats the boy to a garlic-filled Italian dinner. Emile tells Toby he wishes to just live out the rest of his days. Later, Toby goes to Emile's house and finds hospital bags of blood in the bottom of a closet. Then Toby begins to get sick, which his parents think is a case of the flu.
Emile comes to Toby's window and invites him to go for a walk. They go to the cemetery and Emile explains how vampires really are. They are like people who are infected with a thirst. Toby doesn't quite understand, but Emile also explains that after he changed he had to move constantly. He says that vampires incite a genetic mutated virus in average humans. He pulls Toby closer and Toby sneezes incessantly to illustrate his point. Humans have a genetic aversion to "his kind", as he puts it; Emile can't stay in one place too long, otherwise nearby humans will mutate and kill him. But before they go, Emile shows Toby a gift: how to have fun with lightning bugs in the cornfield. It was something he learned as a boy.
Toby becomes even sicker and so do his parents. It turns out all the neighbors in a five block radius are becoming ill. After midnight, Toby and his parents begin to change, mutating into the monsters Emile described. Emile seems to know that his end is coming; he leaves his front door open and is killed by a pack of monsters that enter his house. The next morning, Emile's battered body is being loaded into an ambulance. The neighbors all mourn his passing, not realizing that it was they who killed him. That night, Toby takes his dad and shows him the lightning bugs in the field, and his dad sneezes...
Syndication
This episode was stretched into a half-hour run time for syndication, as recently shown on the Chiller TV network.
See also
External links
Season 1 "Shatterday" · "A Little Peace and Quiet" · "Wordplay" · "Dreams for Sale" · "Chameleon" · "Healer" · "Children's Zoo" · "Kentucky Rye" · "Little Boy Lost" · "Wish Bank" · "Nightcrawlers" · "If She Dies" · "Ye Gods" · "Examination Day" · "A Message From Charity" · "Teacher's Aide" · "Paladin of the Lost Hour" · "Act Break" · "The Burning Man" · "Dealer's Choice" · "Dead Woman's Shoes" · "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" · "The Shadow Man" · "The Uncle Devil Show" · "Opening Day" · "The Beacon" · "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" · "Her Pilgrim Soul" · "I of Newton" · "Night of the Meek" · "But Can She Type?" · "The Star" · "Still Life" · "The Little People of Killany Woods" · "The Misfortune Cookie" · "Monsters!" · "A Small Talent for War" · "A Matter of Minutes" · "The Elevator" · "To See the Invisible Man" · "Tooth and Consequences" · "Welcome to Winfield" · "Quarantine" · "Gramma" · "Personal Demons" · "Cold Reading" · "The Leprechaun-Artist" · "Dead Run" · "Profile in Silver" · "Button, Button" · "Need to Know" · "Red Snow" · "Take My Life...Please!" · "Devil's Alphabet" · "The Library" · "Shadow Play" · "Grace Note" · "A Day in Beaumont" · "The Last Defender of Camelot"Season 2 "The Once and Future King" · "A Saucer of Loneliness" · "What Are Friends For?" · "Aqua Vita" · "The Storyteller" · "Nightsong" · "The After Hours" · "Lost and Found" · "The World Next Door" · "The Toys of Caliban" · "The Convict's Piano" · "The Road Less Traveled" · "The Card" · "The Junction" · "Joy Ride" · "Shelter Skelter" · "Private Channel" · "Time and Teresa Golowitz" · "Voices in the Earth" · "Song of the Younger World" · "The Girl I Married"Season 3 "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon" · "Extra Innings" · "The Crossing" · "The Hunters" · "Dream Me a Life" · "Memories" · "The Hellgramite Method" · "Our Selena Is Dying" · "The Call" · "The Trance" · "Acts of Terror" · "20/20 Vision" · "There Was an Old Woman" · "The Trunk" · "Appointment on Route 17" · "The Cold Equations" · "Stranger in Possum Meadows" · "Street of Shadows" · "Something in the Walls" · "A Game of Pool" · "The Wall" · "Room 2426" · "The Mind of Simon Foster" · "Cat and Mouse" · "Many, Many Monkeys" · "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" · "Special Service" · "Love is Blind" · "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" · "Father and Son Game"Categories:- The New Twilight Zone episodes
- 1986 television episodes
- Vampires in film and television
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.