MonsterVision

Season 1997

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

Where to Watch MonsterVision • Season 1997

103 Episodes

  • The Fly (1986)
    E1
    The Fly (1986)One of the greatest insect horror flicks ever made. Geena Davis watches as Jeff Goldblum mutates into a slime gloopola special effects monster. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • The Swarm (1978)
    E2
    The Swarm (1978)One of the worst insect horror flicks ever made. Killer bees invade Texas. Hoped to be the next great disaster flick, but ended as a disaster at the box office. Joe Bob gives it ★
  • Child's Play (1988)
    E3
    Child's Play (1988)Six year old kid gets a talking doll for his birthday and finds out it's possessed by the soul of a psycho devil worshiping murderer. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Death Valley (1982)
    E4
    Death Valley (1982)Christmas Story kid, his mother, and her new cowboy boyfriend run into a local geekozoid psycho serial killer on their Death Valley road trip. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Carrie (1976)
    E5
    Carrie (1976)The movie that made Sissy Spacek one of the most famous supernatural psycho killers in horror movie history, and dealt with tampons and pads in an adult manner. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Theatre of Blood (1973)
    E6
    Theatre of Blood (1973)Vincent Price kills off London theater critics by reenacting death scenes from famous Shakespearean plays. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • The Neptune Factor (1973)
    E7
    The Neptune Factor (1973)Live from New Orleans Superdome. Submarine crew pokes around underwater for two solid hours trying to rescue scientists who are being attacked by giant colorful pet store fishies. Joe Bob gives it ★★
  • When Time Ran Out... (1980)
    E8
    When Time Ran Out... (1980)Live from New Orleans Superdome. Same story as Jaws, but with volcano instead of a shark: resort threatened, big cheese won't do anything, only one man cares about getting people out, and this time it's Paul Newman. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
  • The Omen (1976)
    E9
    The Omen (1976)Superbowl Marathon begins. Gregory Peck replaces a dead baby and pretty soon the rugrat bashes babysitters' heads and stares people down to suicide. One of the best devil baby pictures ever made. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • The Lost Boys (1987)
    E10
    The Lost Boys (1987)Superbowl Marathon, part 2. Jason Patric discovers the fun of vampire life after drinking blood with Kiefer Sutherland in a cave underneath a hotel. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Deadly Friend (1986)
    E11
    Deadly Friend (1986)Superbowl Marathon, part 3. Wes Craven's breakfast club version of Bride of Frankenstein: kid sticks a robot brain into Kristy Swanson's body and tries to stop her from killing. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Midnight Offerings (1981)
    E12
    Midnight Offerings (1981)Superbowl Marathon, part 4. Another gruesome high school story. A cheerleader gets everything she wants with her witch powers... until a new witch comes to town. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • The Omen (1976)
    E13
    The Omen (1976)Another showing of the movie that introduced Damien to the movie going public. One of the best devil baby pictures ever made. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Village of the Giants (1965)
    E14
    Village of the Giants (1965)Giant juvenile delinquents and giant dancing ducks run amok after eating Ron Howard's growth formula. Joe Bob gives it ★★
  • Dragonslayer (1981)
    E15
    Dragonslayer (1981)British dragon slaying flick with great special effects, great dragons and great torch bearing villagers, but it can be a bit of a yawner. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½, ★★½ if you're not into spit-slingin' English accents.
  • The Master Gunfighter (1975)
    E16
    The Master Gunfighter (1975)Billy Jack with a PBS twist. Kung-fu samurai gun fighter Tom Laughlin defends early California Indians against evil hacienda owners. Joe Bob gives it ★★
  • Saturn 3 (1980)
    E17
    Saturn 3 (1980)Farrah Fawcett's so sexy that a robot wants to have sex with her in this early sleazeball period Harvey Kitel sci-fi flick. Joe Bob gives it ★★
  • Chained Heat II (1993)
    E18
    Chained Heat II (1993)Women in chains are being sold into white slavery by drug crazed lesbians in the kinky sequel that’s tame enough to be shown on basic cable. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • From Beyond (1986)
    E19
    From Beyond (1986)Couple of scientists turn on a giant tuning fork and wait for the vibes to enlarge their sex gland, but it also attracts invisible face eating snake fish. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Shaft (1971)
    E20
    Shaft (1971)The first blaxploitation flick. A suave detective takes on mafia, Harlem heroin ring, Malcolm X revolutionary army, NYPD and some backup singers. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • CyberTracker (1994)
    E21
    CyberTracker (1994)Don "the Dragon" Wilson whoops big 'ol bold headed cyborg steroid monsters to stop a corrupt senator of future LA. Great explosions with plenty of kung-fu. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Tribes (1970)
    E22
    Tribes (1970)The greatest boot camp flick ever made where an old school marine drill sergeant tries to whip a free love hippie into shape. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Back to the Future (1985)
    E23
    Back to the Future (1985)The feel good time travel hit of 1985 about what would happen if you turned a DeLorean into a time machine and went back 30 years to get involved in your parents' love life. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
  • The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
    E24
    The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)Back by popular demand: the thrilling documentary about the Sasquatch monster of southern Arkansas and the Fouke folk who search for him. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • The Exorcist (1973)
    E25
    The Exorcist (1973)The Catholic priest horror classic where Linda Blair paints the room pea soup green. Just in time for Easter. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
    E26
    Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)The French philosophy inspired sequel where they search for evil inside Linda Blair's subconsciousness with a brain electron mind meld machine. Joe Bob gives it ★★
  • Night of the Living Dead (1990)
    E27
    Night of the Living Dead (1990)The unburied dead return to life and seek human victims.
  • Swamp Thing (1982)
    E28
    Swamp Thing (1982)
  • Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
    E29
    Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)Wife gets out of loony bin, has an alien encounter, finds her husband in a bar with a floozy and grows to a giant size. Cult classic mostly because of the title. Joe Bob gives it ★★, ★★★ for camp value.
  • Donovan's Brain (1953)
    E30
    Donovan's Brain (1953)A doctor figures our how to keep a brain alive outside of body, but didn't expect the brain to have an attitude. Nancy Reagan is also here. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Predator (1987)
    E31
    Predator (1987)Arnold leads a squad of mercenaries deep into South American jungle only to find that the enemy is an outer space alien who enjoys eating soldiers. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
  • Slaughter High (1986)
    E32
    Slaughter High (1986)Girl lures the class nerd into a shower and gets him undressed for an April Fools' prank. Ten years later the nerd still remembers it. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Man's Best Friend (1993)
    E33
    Man's Best Friend (1993)TV news reporter accidentally rescues a bionic dog from a research lab without knowing that if the dog doesn't get his meds he turns into a super strength psycho dog. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • China Girl (1987)
    E34
    China Girl (1987)A cross between Means Streets, West Side Story and Mad Monkey Kung Fu, where an Italian disco kid falls in love with a Chinese disco gal and we get Romeo and Juliet as imagined by Joe Pesci. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • The Road Warrior (1981)
    E35
    The Road Warrior (1981)Mel Gibson defends a town from evil banditos in the flick that started the trend of post holocaust barbarians with vehicles and automatic weapons. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • The Doberman Gang (1972)
    E36
    The Doberman Gang (1972)An ex-con, a slutty waitress and a comic relief gangster teach bunch of dogs to rob banks in the 1970s. It's better than watching celery welt. Joe Bob gives it ★
  • The Elephant Man (1980)
    E37
    The Elephant Man (1980)The story of a heavily disfigured Victorian side-show freak rescued by Anthony Hopkins. Filmed in black and white. Eight Academy Awards. How did we get a movie this good on this show? Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • She (1984)
    E38
    She (1984)Bimbos and beefcakes are tying and knocking each other out while Sandahl Bergman is on a quest to establish herself as the first goddess of the post-apocalyptic America. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Red Sonja (1985)
    E39
    Red Sonja (1985)
  • The Beast Within (1982)
    E40
    The Beast Within (1982)
  • Deathstalker (1983)
    E41
    Deathstalker (1983)
  • Motel Hell (1980)
    E42
    Motel Hell (1980)The cult flick that made cannibalism in this country what it is today. Featuring dueling chainsaws and a man wearing a pig head. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Soylent Green (1973)
    E43
    Soylent Green (1973)Back by popular demand: the dystopian future flick where poor cop Charlton Heston makes a terrible discovery about a food product. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • The People Under the Stairs (1991)
    E44
    The People Under the Stairs (1991)
  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
    E45
    Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)Why are we showing this again? The sequel that replaces Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Myers with an evil mask manufacturer plot. Joe Bob gives it ★★
  • Alien (1979)
    E46
    Alien (1979)Outer space towing ship gets invaded by a mutant monster and character actors get eaten head first. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
    E47
    It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)Unkillable outer space creature accidentally gets on a space ship and starts eating the crew one by one. Sounds familiar? Joe Bob gives it ★★
  • Razorback (1984)
    E48
    Razorback (1984)In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
  • Zone Troopers (1986)
    E49
    Zone Troopers (1986)
  • The Exorcist (1973)
    E50
    The Exorcist (1973)
  • Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
    E51
    Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
  • Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964)
    E52
    Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964)Non stop action as teensy weensy identical twin fairy women bring a giant moth to fight Godzilla and save thousands of shrieking Japanese extras. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1965)
    E53
    Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1965)Toho studios take Godzilla to outer space and throw in every monster they've got along with a token American actor and a goofball plot. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
  • Godzilla's Revenge (1969)
    E54
    Godzilla's Revenge (1969)A young boy daydreams of being Godzilla's friend, going to monster island and watching a monster free for all. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • Megaforce (1982)
    E55
    Megaforce (1982)Barry Bostwick in a golden Lycra jumpsuit, Persis Khambatta, and a hi-tec bike with video game weapons are a part of an elite secret fighting force in this excuse to jump some cars and blow stuff up. Joe Bob gives it ★½
  • Warrior of the Lost World (1983)
    E56
    Warrior of the Lost World (1983)Another Mad Max rip-off and another hi-tec bike flick starring Persis Khambatta. Featuring plenty of motor vehicle chases, crashes, burns, and Donald Pleasence. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Time Runner (1993)
    E57
    Time Runner (1993)Astronaut Mark Hamill goes back in time to a 1992 farm where he needs to figure out how to save the world from being destroyed by aliens in thirty years. Joe Bob gives it ★★½
  • The Protector (1985)
    E58
    The Protector (1985)Jackie Chan & Danny Aiello are New York cops who get sent to Hong Kong to rescue a beautiful woman. Non stop action and zaniness ensues. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • The Fly (1986)
    E59
    The Fly (1986)Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, and amazing slime gloopola special effects star in a romantic cautionary tale about the importance of scientific safety procedures. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • The Warriors (1979)
    E60
    The Warriors (1979)All kinds of themed gangs are chasing the Warriors all over New York City and we get to track their progress on a subway map. Lots of great campy 70s stuff in this one. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Skeeter (1993)
    E61
    Skeeter (1993)Probably the best giant mutant mosquito movie ever made despite having way too much plot getting in the way of the story. Joe Bob gives it ★★
  • Endangered Species (1982)
    E62
    Endangered Species (1982)Robert Urich and JoBeth Williams are falling in love while trying to figure out the source of surgical cattle mutilations in the highlands of Colorado. Joe Bob gives it ★★½
  • It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
    E63
    It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)Another Larry Cohen killer baby flick, but this time we get unruly five year olds with really sharp teeth marauding through the tropical foliage. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976)
    E64
    Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976)Made for TV sequel where Adrian the devil child grows up, becomes a rock star and doesn't live up to the Satan worshiping committee's expectations. Joe Bob gives it ★★¼
  • When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
    E65
    When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)The great prehistoric love story between a caveman hunk and blonde sacrifice that's either a camp classic or a masterpiece of stop-motion animation. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
  • Howard the Duck (1986)
    E66
    Howard the Duck (1986)George Lucas' multimillion dollar flop about alien duck who lands in Cleveland and ruins Lea Thompson's career. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)
    E67
    Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)Suburban kids open up a leftover can of secret zombie gas, it seeps into a cemetery and we get zombies demanding brain salad. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Night of the Living Dead (1990)
    E68
    Night of the Living Dead (1990)The George Romero and Tom Savini color remake of the flick regarded by the Drive-In going public as the greatest movie ever made. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Frankenstein (1992)
    E69
    Frankenstein (1992)The TNT version of the classic Mary Shelley novel that didn't get as much recognition as the big budget one, but is actually quite good. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • The Nutty Professor (1963)
    E70
    The Nutty Professor (1963)Jerry Lewis' weird comedic take on Jekyll and Hyde where a nerdy professor turns into one jazz swinging dude at night. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • Sleepstalker (1995)
    E71
    Sleepstalker (1995)An executed serial killer returns as some kind of nursery rhyme spewing sand creature in an attempt to create the next Freddy Krueger monster franchise. Joe Bob gives it ★★½
  • Philadelphia Experiment II (1993)
    E72
    Philadelphia Experiment II (1993)Remember how the first time traveling WW2 flick in this series didn't make much sense? Well, they expanded on that in the sequel! Joe Bob gives it ★★½
  • Alien 3 (1992)
    E73
    Alien 3 (1992)Sigourney Weaver crashes on a religious prison planet and soon dead bodies that start popping up. Seems the gooey head chomping creature hitched a ride with her. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Barbarella (1968)
    E74
    Barbarella (1968)Jane Fonda is a wacky space traveler in shiny black leather and go-go boots on a quest to find a scientist named Duran Duran. Joe Bob gives it ★★ (★★★ for camp value)
  • Steel Dawn (1987)
    E75
    Steel Dawn (1987)Patrick Swayze's kinder, gentler Road Warrior where a kung-fu desert nomad befriends a young widow and her son and fights the guy wanting to take their water. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
    E76
    The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)Wes Craven's flick actually filmed in Haiti where a Harvard guy goes to learn about Voodoo, but gets a practical first hand experience of it instead. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Ghoulies (1985)
    E77
    Ghoulies (1985)Ultra low budget rip-off of Gremlins featuring satanic chanting, toilet humor, laser eye special effects and the actress who played ET. Joe Bob gives it ★★½
  • The Birds (1963)
    E78
    The Birds (1963)One of the greatest horror flicks ever made that had numerous scholarly articles written about it, yet that nobody can agree what the birds represent. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Troll (1986)
    E79
    Troll (1986)A family signs a lease without asking if there are fungus based midget monsters in the laundry room, and now we have condo vegi-matic and Sunny Bono turned into a salad! Joe Bob gives it ★★½
  • Trancers (1985)
    E80
    Trancers (1985)Low budget comedy take on the Terminator where space cop Tim Thomerson teams up with Helen Hunt to stop a time traveling villain from screwing up the future. Joe Bob gives it ★★★½
  • Child's Play (1988)
    E81
    Child's Play (1988)Psycho devil worshiping murderer Brad Dourif brings himself back to life inside Chucky the Doll that a single mother buys for her kid's birthday. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Phantasm II (1988)
    E82
    Phantasm II (1988)The Tall Man is back to his old tricks: bringing corpses back to life in the form of killer midget monks. Doesn't make a lick of sense, but we like it anyway. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
    E83
    Big Trouble in Little China (1986)John Carpenter blends comedy, martial arts, adventure, horror, Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, and hopping vampires into a single flick with some of the best kung-fu ever shown. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Theodore Rex (1996)
    E84
    Theodore Rex (1996)The most expensive direct to video film ever made that's just two solid hours of a tough police detective Whoopi Goldberg talking to a guy in a rubber dinosaur suit. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
    E85
    Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)Freddy goes after the actors and crew of original film. It's one of those "where does the reality end and the film begins?" flicks. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Halloween II (1981)
    E86
    Halloween II (1981)Michael Myers follows Jamie Lee Curtis to the hospital in the sequel that begins on the exact same day the original ended. Joe Bob gives it ★★★★
  • Conan the Destroyer (1984)
    E87
    Conan the Destroyer (1984)Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.
  • Hercules in New York (1970)
    E88
    Hercules in New York (1970)Hercules has grown tired of his life on Mount Olympus, and wishes to visit Earth. His father Zeus forbids such a voyage, but a misdirected thunderbolt sends Hercules tumbling down the mountain and into New York City, where he's befriended by Pretzie, who runs a pretzel cart in the park. As Hercules tries to make his way in the big city with Pretzie's help, he runs afoul of a crooked wrestling promoter, gets mixed up with gangsters, rides his chariot through Times Square, descends into Hell, and dines at the Automat. Just as Hercules is getting used to life on Earth, his angry father decides it's time the boy came home, and Zeus sends Nemesis and a handful of other gods to retrieve him.
  • Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
    E89
    Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
  • They Live (1988)
    E90
    They Live (1988)
  • Capricorn One (1978)
    E91
    Capricorn One (1978)Something's not right about the first mission to Mars, so Elliott Gould investigates Hal Holbrook and his NASA astronauts. Featuring thespian exploits of O.J. Simpson. Joe Bob gives it ★★★
  • Four Days in November (1964)
    E92
    Four Days in November (1964)
  • King Kong (1976)
    E93
    King Kong (1976)
  • Communion (1989)
    E94
    Communion (1989)A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
  • Leviathan (1989)
    E95
    Leviathan (1989)
  • Clash of the Titans (1981)
    E96
    Clash of the Titans (1981)
  • The NeverEnding Story (1984)
    E97
    The NeverEnding Story (1984)While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.
  • Cocoon (1985)
    E98
    Cocoon (1985)The finest geriatric outer space revival movie of 1985 following the lives of the residents of a Florida rest home. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • Seconds (1966)
    E99
    Seconds (1966)Middle aged Rock Hudson changes his whole identity and starts a new life in a movie that will keep you off balance. No rating or drive-in totals.
  • Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
    E100
    Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)After being mortally wounded and taken to the morgue, murderer Jason Voorhees spontaneously revives and embarks on a killing spree as he makes his way back to his home at Camp Crystal Lake.
  • Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)
    E101
    Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)
  • Batteries Not Included (1987)
    E102
    Batteries Not Included (1987)In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.
  • Project X (1968)
    E103
    Project X (1968)A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.

 

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