Yes, its a typical Monsters-y'know-that-tv-series-from-the-80's?-fashioned episode with a cheesy storyline with relatively unknown actors and some interesting effects. This episode doesn't stray far from what I think the series was trying to achieve. If you love zombies and witches and the undead, which are, after all, Monsters this one is sure to please.
5 Reviews
A good solid horror themed Monsters episode.
poolandrews31 May 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Monsters: Museum Hearts starts in the vault of a natural history museum where ladies man Danny (Patrick Breen) is having his way with Cheryl (Louise Roberts), the only problem is that Danny's fiancé Edwina (Sarah Trigger) finds them. While arguing they are accidentally locked in the vault, while trying to reach a skylight by standing on a crate Danny jumps & falls through it. Inside the crate is a Irish Druid Priestess named Cerridwen (Pamela Dean Kelly), Danny injures is leg & his blood drips onto the corpse which starts to revive it. As the Druid comes back to life she needs a new heart & enlists some help to get it...
Episode twelve from season two of Monsters this originally aired in the US during January 1990, written & directed by Theodore Gershuny this pretty good straight horror story gets season two of Monsters back on track nicely after two awful episodes in The Mandrake Root (1989) & Half as Old as Time (1989). There's no comedy here, no moral messages or bizarre fantasy & I would say Museum Hearts is just a short twenty odd minute horror film, it's maybe not got the best twist as it's a little predictable but as a whole it works. There's three quickly & well fleshed out character's, there's your typical horror film isolated location where they are cut off from the help, a zombified Irish Druid Priestess & some more than decent gore & make-up effects. What's not to like? Well, when all said & done there's not too much to it, I would have liked a little bit more thought in the twist ending & at only twenty odd minutes there's not that much time to develop the story & it felt like it finished just as it was starting.
The entire episode is set in a single location, Museum Hearts is well made with good production values & some nicely shot scenes that are well lit & give off that 80's horror film vibe. The special make-up effects are also very good, the zombie Druid looks good & there's some gore with a ripped-out heart on show. The acting is pretty good with Pamela Dean Kelly making her second appearance on the series after her role on Holly's House (1988) from season one.
Museum Hearts is a very good Monsters episode that isn't a classic since the story doesn't really go anywhere but for what it is it passes twenty odd minutes pleasantly enough.
Episode twelve from season two of Monsters this originally aired in the US during January 1990, written & directed by Theodore Gershuny this pretty good straight horror story gets season two of Monsters back on track nicely after two awful episodes in The Mandrake Root (1989) & Half as Old as Time (1989). There's no comedy here, no moral messages or bizarre fantasy & I would say Museum Hearts is just a short twenty odd minute horror film, it's maybe not got the best twist as it's a little predictable but as a whole it works. There's three quickly & well fleshed out character's, there's your typical horror film isolated location where they are cut off from the help, a zombified Irish Druid Priestess & some more than decent gore & make-up effects. What's not to like? Well, when all said & done there's not too much to it, I would have liked a little bit more thought in the twist ending & at only twenty odd minutes there's not that much time to develop the story & it felt like it finished just as it was starting.
The entire episode is set in a single location, Museum Hearts is well made with good production values & some nicely shot scenes that are well lit & give off that 80's horror film vibe. The special make-up effects are also very good, the zombie Druid looks good & there's some gore with a ripped-out heart on show. The acting is pretty good with Pamela Dean Kelly making her second appearance on the series after her role on Holly's House (1988) from season one.
Museum Hearts is a very good Monsters episode that isn't a classic since the story doesn't really go anywhere but for what it is it passes twenty odd minutes pleasantly enough.
Superior episode
Woodyanders3 October 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Womanizing cad Danny (a nicely smarmy portrayal by Patrick Breen) finds himself trapped overnight in a museum basement with his fiancé Edwina (sharply played by Sarah Trigger) and his little something on the side Cheryl (a solid performance by Louise Roberts). If that isn't bad enough, there's also the hideous bog body of an ancient druid priestess (Pamela Dean Kelly in funky make-up) in a box in said basement.
Writer/director Theodore Gershuny adroitly crafts a steamy'n'spooky atmosphere, keeps the engrossing story moving at a quick pace, generates a good deal of tension, and delivers a few neat bits of fairly graphic gore. Moreover, the story has a nifty feminist bent to it, with callous jerk Danny receiving a highly satisfying gruesome comeuppance at the end. The bog woman looks genuinely creepy. The fluid and dynamic cinematography by Michael Mayers provides an impressive stylish look. A right on-target episode.
Writer/director Theodore Gershuny adroitly crafts a steamy'n'spooky atmosphere, keeps the engrossing story moving at a quick pace, generates a good deal of tension, and delivers a few neat bits of fairly graphic gore. Moreover, the story has a nifty feminist bent to it, with callous jerk Danny receiving a highly satisfying gruesome comeuppance at the end. The bog woman looks genuinely creepy. The fluid and dynamic cinematography by Michael Mayers provides an impressive stylish look. A right on-target episode.
Nothing spectacular, but, still a decent offering.
b_kite15 April 2020
A womanizer, his wife, and the women he's cheating with are locked in the room of what seems to be a huge museum or university with a recently revived druid priestess with a hatred for men and a love for hearts. You can probably do the math from there to see where this is going and who's getting there comeuppance by the end. However, its still not a bad offering and overall decent if nothing spectacular.
Silly witch
Leofwine_draca23 August 2015
MUSEUM HEARTS is a silly little episode of the MONSTERS TV show, although one of the gorier ones I've seen. It's another single location story in which a trio of people (a guy, his wife, and his lover) are trapped in a museum overnight. Somewhat inexplicably, they're trapped with a preserved bog lady, who also seems to be a witch, and before long supernatural shenanigans ensue.
This story seems to be a bizarre contemporary updating of Shakespeare's MACBETH, or at least the witches from MACBETH; there are even line readings from the play. It's all very slight and trivial, however, with overacting and pretty bad effects; the story is so overblown at times that you could mistake it for pantomime.
This story seems to be a bizarre contemporary updating of Shakespeare's MACBETH, or at least the witches from MACBETH; there are even line readings from the play. It's all very slight and trivial, however, with overacting and pretty bad effects; the story is so overblown at times that you could mistake it for pantomime.
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