Monsters: Bed and Boar starts late one night at Mom's Motel where tableware travelling salesman John Dennis (Steve Buscemi) is staying but is having trouble getting to sleep because of the noise coming from the room next-door. John hears a violent struggle between a man & a woman & later that night the woman Sue Weatherby (Jodie Markell) knock's on John's door asking for help, he lets her in & instantly falls for her good looks & using this to her advantage convinces John to off her violent husband to get at his money. However all is not as it seems...
Episode fourteen from season two of Monsters this originally aired in the US during January 1990, directed Sara Driver this is a rather average episode that could have been a quirky little gem but comes across as throughly lacklustre. The plot just doesn't make much sense, why did Sue need John to kill her husband anyway? I mean why did Sue need anything to do John in the first place? Why turn him & eventually John into Pig-men? Why was Sue afraid of silver? What were Sue & her husband doing at the motel? Why did Sue's deformed husband try to warn John at first but then try to kill him later? The whole story feels empty & random, there's no purpose to any of it & the ending isn't really much of a twist either. Still, at only twenty odd minutes it's short & it is watchable & it's just a shame there isn't more meaning to the episode & it just ends just as it was getting going.
The whole episode takes place in a single location with only three character's & it has reasonable production values but little actual horror & the story just doesn't make enough sense or have enough meaning to satisfy. The monster in this episode a half man half Pig deformed thing & the make-up effects are alright, there's no gore here. The one aspect of note about Bed and Boar is that it features a fairly early performance from future Hollywood star Steve Buscemi.
Bed and Boar is a rather average Monsters episode which is watchable in it's own silly way but nothing special & the story does feel like the makers made it up as they went along with no clear vision of what they wanted to do with it.
Episode fourteen from season two of Monsters this originally aired in the US during January 1990, directed Sara Driver this is a rather average episode that could have been a quirky little gem but comes across as throughly lacklustre. The plot just doesn't make much sense, why did Sue need John to kill her husband anyway? I mean why did Sue need anything to do John in the first place? Why turn him & eventually John into Pig-men? Why was Sue afraid of silver? What were Sue & her husband doing at the motel? Why did Sue's deformed husband try to warn John at first but then try to kill him later? The whole story feels empty & random, there's no purpose to any of it & the ending isn't really much of a twist either. Still, at only twenty odd minutes it's short & it is watchable & it's just a shame there isn't more meaning to the episode & it just ends just as it was getting going.
The whole episode takes place in a single location with only three character's & it has reasonable production values but little actual horror & the story just doesn't make enough sense or have enough meaning to satisfy. The monster in this episode a half man half Pig deformed thing & the make-up effects are alright, there's no gore here. The one aspect of note about Bed and Boar is that it features a fairly early performance from future Hollywood star Steve Buscemi.
Bed and Boar is a rather average Monsters episode which is watchable in it's own silly way but nothing special & the story does feel like the makers made it up as they went along with no clear vision of what they wanted to do with it.
