MonsterVision: Season 4 (1999)
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of MonsterVision Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Jan 2, 1999 · 121 min
A group of people tries to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
The Seventh Sign (1988)
Jan 9, 1999
Abby Quinn is eagerly awaiting childbirth but is haunted by dreams in which she miscarries. When she decides to rent a room to a mysterious stranger, she releases a chain of events
The Silencers (1996)
Jan 16, 1999 · 117 min
Special Agent Rafferty is thrown into a maelstrom of action and intrigue when he identifies a mysterious alien race who are on a mission to invade Earth.
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Jan 23, 1999 · 152 min
A big city reporter travels to a small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman for whom she worked as a housekeeper.
The Kiss (1988)
Jan 23, 1999 · 123 min
After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father'
Phantasm II (1988)
Feb 6, 1999 · 112 min
Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become pa
The Guyver (1991)
Mar 13, 1999 · 109 min
A young man discovers a mechanical device that merges with his own body, turning him into a cyborg superhero. When strange creatures start appearing, trying to take the device back
Poltergeist (1982)
Apr 3, 1999 · 132 min
A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
May 1, 1999 · 112 min
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
Love Potion No. 9 (1992)
May 22, 1999 · 152 min
Two scientists who are hopeless with the opposite sex experiment with a substance that makes them irresistible to anyone who hears them speak.
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
May 22, 1999 · 115 min
An anthropologist goes to Haiti to research a drug that makes someone appear dead by suspending all vital signs.
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Jun 19, 1999 · 119 min
A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
Look Who's Talking Too (1990)
Jun 26, 1999 · 95 min
This time, a new baby is on the way, and it's a girl. Wrapped together with the standard conflict between mother and father, Mikey engages in a bit of sibling rivalry with his new
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Jul 17, 1999 · 176 min
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised. Joe Bob's Summer School: Pop Culture 201
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Jul 17, 1999 · 111 min
When eccentric man-child Pee-wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life. Part of Joe Bob's Summer School:
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Jul 24, 1999 · 179 min
A powerful warrior seeks to avenge the genocide of his people and the murder of his parents at the hands of a snake cult.
Conan the Destroyer (1984)
Jul 24, 1999 · 120 min
Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.
Hot Shots! (1991)
Jul 31, 1999 · 105 min
A parody of Top Gun (1986) in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Aug 21, 1999 · 133 min
Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.
The Great Outdoors (1988)
Sep 4, 1999 · 121 min
A Chicago man's hope for a peaceful family vacation in the woods is shattered when the annoying in-laws drop in.
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
Sep 4, 1999 · 126 min
The Griswold's win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues. (Part of Joe Bob's Summer School: Geography 207)
Dragnet (1987)
Sep 11, 1999
The equally strait-laced and "by-the-book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.
The Devil's Rain (1975)
A satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood con
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Sep 25, 1999
A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
The Fear (1995)
Sep 25, 1999
A group of college seniors spending a weekend at a cottage for a psychological experiment called "fear therapy" find a human-sized wooden figure called Morty, which triggers everyo
Child's Play 2 (1990)
Oct 30, 1999 · 95 min
While Andy's mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, and Chucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Oct 31, 1999 · 112 min
An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.
The American President (1995)
Dec 4, 1999 · 123 min
A widowed U.S. President running for reelection and an environmental lobbyist fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception," and sparks fly anyway.
Look Who's Talking Now (1993)
Dec 4, 1999 · 109 min
The dogs can talk at a family of 4, where mom loses her job the same day dad gets a job as pilot for a cute, single boss.
Twins (1988)
Dec 25, 1999 · 202 min
A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook.
Rocky IV (1985)
Dec 25, 1999 · 108 min
Rocky Balboa proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the