MonsterVision (Season 5)

MonsterVision is an American variety series that aired on TNT from March 1, 1993 to September 2000. The series was hosted by Joe Bob Briggs from 1995 to 2000, and featured classic B and cult films from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Penn and Teller guest-hosted MonsterVision marathons before Briggs came on board as the full-time host. Late in its run, the show changed formats, discarded "Last Call," and became Joe Bob's Hollywood Saturday Night and Monstervision.

  • Poster for Spaceballs (1987)

    Spaceballs (1987) (Episode 1)

    Air date: 2000-01-15

    Runtime: 85 min

    Overview: A star pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.

  • Poster for Future Hunters (1986)

    Future Hunters (1986) (Episode 2)

    Air date: 2000-01-22

    Runtime: 117 min

    Overview: A man from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to prevent the coming nuclear holocaust and enlists the help of a young couple.

  • Poster for Planet of the Apes (1968)

    Planet of the Apes (1968) (Episode 3)

    Air date: 2000-01-29

    Overview: After being kept in hypersleep during a long expedition into deep space, an astronaut crew crash-lands in the 40th century on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.

  • Poster for Embrace of the Vampire (1995)

    Embrace of the Vampire (1995) (Episode 4)

    Air date: 2000-02-05

    Overview: An 18-year-old college freshman is seduced by a handsome vampire lover who introduces her to a dark world of carnal desires.

  • Poster for Critters (1986)

    Critters (1986) (Episode 5)

    Air date: 2000-02-12

    Overview: A group of small but vicious alien creatures called Crites escape from an alien prison transport vessel and land near a small farm town on earth, pursued by two shape-shifting bounty hunters.

  • Poster for Breeders (1997)

    Breeders (1997) (Episode 6)

    Air date: 2000-02-19

    Runtime: 109 min

    Overview: An alien travels to Earth on a meteorite and mates with humans to preserve its species and destroy humanity.

  • Poster for Project: Metalbeast (1995)

    Project: Metalbeast (1995) (Episode 7)

    Air date: 2000-02-26

    Runtime: 105 min

    Overview: In 1974, an unhinged CIA agent injects himself with the werewolf blood he found. After a killing spree, his body is put in suspended animation, then thawed out 20 years later by his crazy boss and a team of unsuspecting doctors.

  • Poster for The Dead Zone (1983)

    The Dead Zone (1983) (Episode 8)

    Air date: 2000-03-04

    Overview: A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.

  • Poster for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) (Episode 9)

    Air date: 2000-03-11

    Overview: Flighty teenage girl Buffy Summers learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.

  • Poster for Skeeter (1993)

    Skeeter (1993) (Episode 10)

    Air date: 2000-03-18

    Overview: As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes!

  • Poster for The Company of Wolves (1984)

    The Company of Wolves (1984) (Episode 11)

    Air date: 2000-03-25

    Overview: A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine, and has a disturbing dream involving wolves prowling the woods below her bedroom window.

  • Poster for Voodoo (1995)

    Voodoo (1995) (Episode 12)

    Air date: 2000-04-01

    Overview: A college student must save his girlfriend from a fraternity of voodoo cultists who hope to make her a human sacrifice.

  • Poster for The Stepfather (1987)

    The Stepfather (1987) (Episode 13)

    Air date: 2000-04-08

    Overview: After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.

  • Poster for My Boyfriend's Back (1993)

    My Boyfriend's Back (1993) (Episode 14)

    Air date: 2000-04-15

    Runtime: 113 min

    Overview: A teenage boy comes back from the dead because he is determined to win the most beautiful girl in school.

  • Poster for Body Armor [The Protector] (1997)

    Body Armor [The Protector] (1997) (Episode 15)

    Air date: 2000-04-22

    Overview: Soldier of fortune Ken Conway gets a job offer from his former fiancee to look into the whereabouts of a missing scientist. The scientist was working for pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Krago, so Conway goes undercover to infiltrate the doctor's operation. He soon discovers what Krago's scheme is: he creates super-diseases and their cures at the same time, and gets rich by releasing the disease and selling the cure. Ken tries to take this information to the authorities, but finds out too late that he has been infected with the doctor's latest creation, and he has only 48 hours left to live if he can't get his hands on the antidote.

  • Poster for Leviathan (1998)

    Leviathan (1998) (Episode 16)

    Air date: 2000-04-29

    Overview: Perched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners led by head oceanographer Steven Beck comes face to face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment.

  • Poster for Beetlejuice (1988)

    Beetlejuice (1988) (Episode 17)

    Air date: 2000-05-06

    Overview: The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.

  • Poster for Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

    Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) (Episode 18)

    Air date: 2000-05-13

    Overview: In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.

  • Poster for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

    Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) (Episode 19)

    Air date: 2000-05-20

    Overview: After being exiled from the most advanced town in post-apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.

  • Poster for Hercules and the Amazon Women (1994)

    Hercules and the Amazon Women (1994) (Episode 20)

    Air date: 2000-06-03

    Overview: Hercules and Iolaus take time out from Iolaus' wedding preparations, to help a distant village under attack from "monsters". When they reach their destination, they find the monsters are in fact Amazonian women who are controlled by Hera.

  • Poster for Christine (1983)

    Christine (1983) (Episode 21)

    Air date: 2000-06-10

    Overview: A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.

  • Poster for Within the Rock (1996)

    Within the Rock (1996) (Episode 22)

    Air date: 2000-06-17

    Overview: A team of space miners sent to stop a moon's collision course with the earth discover a hibernating creature that soon revives and starts slaughtering them.

  • Poster for Cyberjack (Virtual Assassin) (1995)

    Cyberjack (Virtual Assassin) (1995) (Episode 23)

    Air date: 2000-06-24

    Runtime: 112 min

    Overview: In the near future Nassim, terrorist leader, storms computer company headquarters. His aim is deadly computer virus that could bring him world domination. Nick, company janitor and ex-cop, will get in his way.

  • Poster for Replikator (1994)

    Replikator (1994) (Episode 24)

    Air date: 2000-07-01

    Runtime: 109 min

    Overview: A ruthless criminal kingpin has taken control of the technology to replicate people and a veteran street cop and his two cyberpunk friends must stop him.

  • Poster for Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992)

    Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992) (Episode 25)

    Air date: 2000-07-08

    Overview: A journalist and his son travel to Nebraska to investigate the mysterious town of Gatlin where, unbeknownst to them, a murderous cult of children are still waiting in the corn fields.

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