MonsterVision

Season 1996

"Monstervision" was a hosted movie show, with a number of hosts, one being John Bloom as "Joe Bob Briggs".

Where to Watch MonsterVision • Season 1996

53 Episodes

  • The Hand (1981)
    E1
    The Hand (1981)Joe Bob's MonsterVision de-butt. Michael Caine is a troubled cartoonist having a hard time dealing with his hand getting hacked off. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
  • The Creeping Unknown (1955)
    E2
    The Creeping Unknown (1955)Bunch of British guys in trench coats running around London chasing anorexic astronaut who's mutating into a cactus, a monkey, and a rubber legged octopus all at once. Joe Bob gives it ★½
  • The Fog (1980)
    E3
    The Fog (1980)Bunch of John Carpenter's friends inside evil fog. Personally I don't think you can make fog that creepy, but watch it and see what you think. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Superbeast (1972)
    E4
    Superbeast (1972)Secret experiments are going on inside a jungle prison, and none of it makes a lick of sense. Filipino cinema at it's finest. Joe Bob gives it ★
  • Night of the Living Dead (1990)
    E5
    Night of the Living Dead (1990)George Romero's remake about seven people in Pennsylvania farm house trying to decide which is worse: fighting the flesh eating zombies, or each other. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Motel Hell (1980)
    E6
    Motel Hell (1980)One of the strangest horror comedies ever made: Rory Calhoun sells home-made sausages and beef jerky out of his rundown motel, and it somehow leads to a chainsaw duel. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)
    E7
    Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)A seeker named Dogen rescues Dhyana after her father is murdered by the evil Jared-Syn. To avenge her father's death, Dogen must find Jared-Syn's hideout in the mysterious "Lost City", but the only person who knows where it is an aging, burned-out seeker named Rhodes. Along the way, they will need to do battle against the hunter Baal and his Cyclopean minions for engaging Jared-Syn in a final encounter.
  • Logan's Run (1976)
    E8
    Logan's Run (1976)70s sci-fi camp classic filmed in Dallas Apparel Mart about a future world where everyone who turns 30 has to die or become reincarnated as a newborn baby. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Strays (1991)
    E9
    Strays (1991)
  • The Beast Within (1982)
    E10
    The Beast Within (1982)
  • The People Under the Stairs (1991)
    E11
    The People Under the Stairs (1991)
  • Swamp Thing (1982)
    E12
    Swamp Thing (1982)
  • She (1984)
    E13
    She (1984)
  • Deathstalker (1983)
    E14
    Deathstalker (1983)
  • The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
    E15
    The Valley of Gwangi (1969)A wild west show in Mexico is on a search of prehistoric dinosaurs brought to life by Ray Harryhausen. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • Them! (1954)
    E16
    Them! (1954)The classic 1950s atomic mutation giant monster flick. When people first saw those monsters they run out of the theater. Just wait 'till you see Them! No rating or drive-in totals.
  • Deadly Friend (1986)
    E17
    Deadly Friend (1986)Kid sticks a robot brain in a body of a girl next door. Now he has to stop his new girlfriend monster from killing all the neighbors. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
  • Midnight Offerings (1981)
    E18
    Midnight Offerings (1981)High school cheerleader gets everything she wants in life , because she's a bitchy witch... until a new witch comes to town. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • Soylent Green (1973)
    E19
    Soylent Green (1973)Charlton Heston makes a terrifying discovery in this slow burn 70s sci-fi classic set in a future where only rich people can afford wives. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
    E20
    The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)The best exploitation documentary about a Bigfoot monster ever made around Fouke, Arkansas. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • Project: Shadowchaser (1992)
    E21
    Project: Shadowchaser (1992)Steroid monster android takes over a hospital and kidnaps president's daughter, so they unfreeze a criminal to save her. Kind of Die Hard and Frankenstein mixed together. Joe Bob gives it ★★½
  • Zone Troopers (1985)
    E22
    Zone Troopers (1985)Some WW2 soldiers are searching for nazis behind enemy lines, but end up encountering those rally weird aliens from outer space instead. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Friday the 13th (1980)
    E23
    Friday the 13th (1980)Teens go into the woods, and they don't come out of the woods, because they get butchered for having too much sex. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
    E24
    Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)The first film that actually stars Jason. The story picks right up with the same girl when the last one left off. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Salem's Lot (1979)
    E25
    Salem's Lot (1979)Stephen King and Tobe Hooper together at last, making a slow burn hunted house mini series about small town New England vampires. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Time After Time (1979)
    E26
    Time After Time (1979)What if you slept with a guy and then found out he was H.G. Wells who traveled to your 70s San Francisco apartment in a time machine to catch Jack the Ripper? Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
  • Timestalkers (1987)
    E27
    Timestalkers (1987)Time traveler from the future teams up with XX century college professor to stop gun slinging cowboy Klaus Kinski in the Wild West. No star rating.
  • The Beastmaster (1982)
    E28
    The Beastmaster (1982)Poor Man's Conan the Barbarian communes with animals while an enormous amount of people die grizzly, horrible deaths. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991)
    E29
    Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991)The cheesier direct to video sequel that recasts the animals and transports them and the Beastmaster to 90s Los Angeles. Joe Bob gives it ★★
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
    E30
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)Health department inspector Donald Sutherland finds out that people are being copied and turned into vegetable zombies. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)
    E31
    The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)A 747 takes off with only ten passengers (that's all the budget allowed) and suddenly some ancient druid spirits start causing trouble in the cargo hold. Joe Bob gives it ★
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
    E32
    Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)Kirk is now an admiral in basically one long Star Trek TV episode with a lot of slow shots of the spaceship, slow shots of outer space, and slow shots of the star field. Joe Bob gives it ★★½
  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
    E33
    Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)The sequel that replaces Michael Myers with an evil company marketing Halloween masks to children all over America. Joe Bob gives it ★★
  • Burnt Offerings (1976)
    E34
    Burnt Offerings (1976)Suburban family rents a big ole' summer house with an old lady living in the attic and really strange stuff happening all over. A traditional haunted house flick, but with a big budget. Joe Bob gives it ★★½
  • Poltergeist (1982)
    E35
    Poltergeist (1982)1996 Halloween Special begins. Tobe Hooper's horror classic about a girl who watches too much TV. Featuring California homeowners' biggest nightmare: roadie zombies in the pool clogging up the filter. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
    E36
    Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)1996 Halloween Special, part 2. Poltergeist monsters are back, but a cool Indian is camped out in the back yard trying to protect the family from those evil TV set spirits. Joe Bob gives it ★★
  • Poltergeist III (1988)
    E37
    Poltergeist III (1988)1996 Halloween Special, part 3. The poltergeists are back again, despite moving the little girl to a Chicago high rise and losing most of the original cast. Joe Bob gives it ★
  • King Kong (1976)
    E38
    King Kong (1976)The Dino De Laurentiis remake with Jessica Lange and the World Trade Center. When monkey dies, everybody cries. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Night of the Lepus (1972)
    E39
    Night of the Lepus (1972)Based on true story of maniac rabbits that eat people in Australia. Janet Leigh hasn't experienced such levels of terror since Psycho. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Endgame (1983)
    E40
    Endgame (1983)Not the British existential one, but the Italian most dangerous game one where a telepathic mutant recruits a post holocaust TV game show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety. No star rating.
  • Tiger Claws (1991)
    E41
    Tiger Claws (1991)Cynthia Rothrock and Bela Lugosi lookalike investigate a serial killer Bolo Yeung who's knocking off all the martial arts champions in New York's Chinatown. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
  • The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992)
    E42
    The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992)One of the most vile movies ever shown on MonsterVision where John Rhys-Davies investigates a four hundred year old zombie woman, that's actually two women. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
  • Warrior of the Lost World (1983)
    E43
    Warrior of the Lost World (1983)Robert Ginty rides a high-tech motorcycle into a post nuclear zombie nation ruled by Donald Pleasence to rescue Persis Khambatta. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Gremlins (1984)
    E44
    Gremlins (1984)Mischievous monsters take over a Norman Rockwell-looking town and harass a bunch of character actors. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
  • Billy Jack (1971)
    E45
    Billy Jack (1971)25th anniversary salute to Billy Jack with Tom Laughlin joining over the phone. Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaways. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • Red Sonja (1985)
    E46
    Red Sonja (1985)Red Sonja is leader of tribe of amazons who are riding in search of evil Queen Gedren, so they can avenge the death of 20 virgins who got tossed into a pit of boiling grease. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Overlords of the U.F.O. (1976)
    E47
    Overlords of the U.F.O. (1976)This documentary puts forth the theory that UFOs are actually beings from another dimension, and reviews past incidents of UFO sightings in support of that theory.
  • The Lost Boys (1987)
    E48
    The Lost Boys (1987)After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
  • Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
    E49
    Friday the 13th Part III (1982)An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
  • Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
    E50
    Little Shop of Horrors (1986)Joe Bob's 1996 Christmas Message. Yuppie musical take on 1960 Roger Corman flick where a bloodthirsty plant from outer space becomes the top show sensation in NYC. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
    E51
    Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)Remember how good the first one was? Well, that's about how bad this sequel is... but it has an elephant as a major plot point. Joe Bob gives it ★
  • The Monster Club (1981)
    E52
    The Monster Club (1981)Vampire Vincent Price takes a famous British horror writer to a secret monster club where they tell anthology stories with musical interludes. Joe Bob gives it ★★½
  • The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
    E53
    The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)Roman Polanski's vaudeville vampire satire that wasn't shown on TV for about twenty years because Sharon Tate and the Manson murders. Joe Bob gives it ★★½

 

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