Monsters: Glim-Glim is set in a small town where an alien spaceship has crash landed, the whole population has died because of a deadly virus except Carl (Brian Fitzpatrick), a loving father (Mark Hofmaier) & his young daughter Amy (Jenna von Oÿ). The only place in town with heating & electricity is the library so they break in & seek shelter in the basement but above them in the library itself the alien from the spaceship has also taken refuge. Carl thinks the alien has hostile intentions while Amy doesn't & names it Glim-Glim, who is right, what does the alien want & will the three survivors make it out of town alive?
Episode thirteen from season one of Monsters this originally aired in the US during February 1989, directed by Peter Michael Sloan this is perhaps the saddest Monsters episode & you would need to have a heart made of stone not to feel a little tiny bit sad at the end for the little girl Amy & what has just happened. The script starts off like an alien invasion film as we learn a spaceship landed in town & all the townsfolk are now dead bar three survivors but soon turns into something about friendship, learning to see past initial impressions & below the surface as it were & of course looking past something or someones appearance which could be said to be an attack on racism if you really wanted to find some sort of deep meaningful message here. It's all of those things I suppose & a very well written & acted programme too that does entertain, that can be quite creepy during the first half as the mystery builds & surprisingly emotional at the end. For those that have seen it & know the end don't you think Glim-Glim would have been great as a Christmas special?
As with most Monsters episodes there's a monster in Glim-Glim & it's obviously the alien, unfortunately it looks pretty poor & is maybe best described as a giant green pear with four eyes, four tentacled arms & no legs or feet. To be honest it wouldn't look out of place in a 50's sci-fi film. Unusually for Monsters there's a bit of gore here as a decapitated head is seen on a chair in a quite gory moment which is at odds with the rest of the episode really. The acting is good which probably makes this episode work so well especially the cute little girl whom it's very hard not to feel sorry for at the end.
Glim-Glim is another great episode of Monsters that in twenty short minutes manages to tell a meaningful & sometimes oddly emotional story on a low budget & features an alien which looks like a giant green pear, what more do you want?
Episode thirteen from season one of Monsters this originally aired in the US during February 1989, directed by Peter Michael Sloan this is perhaps the saddest Monsters episode & you would need to have a heart made of stone not to feel a little tiny bit sad at the end for the little girl Amy & what has just happened. The script starts off like an alien invasion film as we learn a spaceship landed in town & all the townsfolk are now dead bar three survivors but soon turns into something about friendship, learning to see past initial impressions & below the surface as it were & of course looking past something or someones appearance which could be said to be an attack on racism if you really wanted to find some sort of deep meaningful message here. It's all of those things I suppose & a very well written & acted programme too that does entertain, that can be quite creepy during the first half as the mystery builds & surprisingly emotional at the end. For those that have seen it & know the end don't you think Glim-Glim would have been great as a Christmas special?
As with most Monsters episodes there's a monster in Glim-Glim & it's obviously the alien, unfortunately it looks pretty poor & is maybe best described as a giant green pear with four eyes, four tentacled arms & no legs or feet. To be honest it wouldn't look out of place in a 50's sci-fi film. Unusually for Monsters there's a bit of gore here as a decapitated head is seen on a chair in a quite gory moment which is at odds with the rest of the episode really. The acting is good which probably makes this episode work so well especially the cute little girl whom it's very hard not to feel sorry for at the end.
Glim-Glim is another great episode of Monsters that in twenty short minutes manages to tell a meaningful & sometimes oddly emotional story on a low budget & features an alien which looks like a giant green pear, what more do you want?
