Monsters (TV Series) Where's the Rest of Me? (1988) User Reviews

Another zombie episode, starring Meat Loaf!

[b_kite · 7/10 · 14 July 2017]

Where's the Rest of Me? starts with mad scientist Dr. Willard Wingite (Meat Loaf) throwing a party for his rich friends, all while a revolution takes place outside. Wingite has however took the body of one of the rebels and has managed to keep it alive all awhile taking its different body parts which he has surgically given to each of his friends, in hoping that they will invest in his new organ serum which they do agree to. However when the rebel is accidentally revived he begins to seek revenge on the group by taking back what is rightfully his!

I found myself rather liking this story which seems to borrow a lot from other tales like "Frankenstein" or "Re-Animator". The production team makes the most out of the low budget with two sets a parlor dinning room and a basement looking laboratory. We also have five people in the cast, and it was rather fun to see them fall one by one to the rebel zombie. It was nice to see Meat Loaf here as well, he does a nice job, I always remembered an episode were he played a mad scientist, but, couldn't remember the name of it. The monster here is the zombie and makeup is done rather well, we also get a nice amount of blood and gore, which hasn't appeared in the series much to this point. On a lower note and I think this was brought up by other reviewers I found the whole revolution subplot to be rather disappointing, its not really needed and you could have just had a mad scientist kidnapping a young man to harvest his organs for his rich friends and that would have worked just as good. Also the resigning for the zombie rebel coming back is rather stupid I mean are you seriously going to leave a vat of the stuff that revives him right next to him, so someone can spell it. However these are all just little issues nothing bad, and all together this is a fun little episode to watch.

Where's the Rest of Me?

[Scarecrow-88 · 6/10 · 7 September 2011]

Positively ghoulish tale of a scientist (Meat Loaf Aday), who lives in some Latin country overrun by a revolutionary war, serving as their "doctor of death" when revolutionaries are caught, sentenced for execution, and has developed a serum which keeps a corpse alive so that he can use the dead body's organs. Three "success stories", football player Joe (amusing part for Pittsburgh Steeler's legend Franco Harris), singer Regina (Black-Eyed Susan), and JJ Marshall (Drew Eliot) are gathered around the table of his mansion for which Dr. Willard Wingite (Meat Loaf) offers a proposal—to be benefactors who contribute financially to his organ-harvesting venture. When Joe and Regina, during a moment of horseplay, knock over serum into a vat (feeding the tubes which enter the corpse's bloodstream) keeping the corpse from rotting, "Adam" (Frank Tarsia) rises from his table wanting his organs back! Joe had a knee replacement that was a new and improved version of his old one, allowing him to set records on the field. Regina's vocal chords were restored and better than ever. JJ has better eyesight thanks to the eye surgery performed by Wingite. All three represent greedy, self-absorbed types with bright ideas of Wingite performing more "miracles" for them personally, not just the public at large who can afford the scientist's procedure and the serum that contributes to the surgical breakthroughs. The macabre aspect of this tale of Monsters, titled "Where's the Rest of Me?" is that Adam slowly resurrects himself by seizing upon each person who has an organ of his. The end shows that Wingite's clients weren't the only ones who benefited from the organs Adam's corpse provides, a heart removed with a hatchet. While most of the grislier moments are not shone on-screen, the subject matter itself is still rather disturbing. No one can fault Adam for wanting what's rightfully his. The show was too cheap to add authenticity to the setting and I never for a second believed they were located in a more exotic locale. The characters are so loathsome that when Adam attacks a member of the group, none of them help each other, so they get what's coming to them.

The one with Meat Loaf as a mad scientist.

[poolandrews · 6/10 · 1 February 2009]

Monsters: Where's the Rest of Me? is set on a civil war torn Caribbean island where scientist Doctor Willard Wingite (Meat Loaf) lives & conducts his groundbreaking if somewhat unethical organ transplant experiments. Joining him there are three of his success stories, singer Regina (Black-Eyed Susan(!)) who had her vocal chords replaced, star football player Joe (Franco Harris) who had a new knee & property mogul J.J. (Drew Eliot) whose sight was restored by Wingite with a cornea transplant. Doctor Wingite urges the three to invest in his organ preservation serum which they are happy to do, but the original donor of the various body parts is still alive in Wingite's laboratory thanks to the serum & wants his missing organs back...

Episode six from season one of Monsters this originally aired in the US during November 1988, written & directed by Richard Benner this a pretty good mad scientist/Frankenstein themed episode of the horror anthology show Monsters that in all fairness probably is closer to Re-Animator (1985) than Frankenstein but you get the general idea. Like all of these twenty odd minute episodes of Monsters this episode finishes just as your getting into it but Where's the Rest of Me? is good ghoulish fun while it last's & I liked it, I liked that the zombie here actually had some motivation & a purpose as it tried to get it's stolen organs back including a gory demise for rock singer Meat Loaf who here looks quite slim. The character's are alright but Wingite remains a little bit too calm for me & are you telling me he wasn't aware that giving Adam the corpse a load of his serum would have revived him? There's a sub-plot about a revolution going on in the background on the island which doesn't amount to much to be fair. A good episode overall with some nice gore although once the plot reveals that Adam is after his stolen organs it's pretty predictable for the most part but the ending is still quite good & rounds things off nicely.

It's amazing how the production team of Monsters made so much out of such meagre resources, here there's only two sets & five people in the entire thing but it works & you don't feel there needs to be anything else. The sets that are here look good & I think there's a definite nod towards Re-Animator with it's bright green life giving serum although one has to say Meat Loaf is no Jeffrey Combs. Here Meat Loaf wears a horrible white suit, red shirt & multi-coloured tie which would have been bad enough on it's own but Meat Loaf also has a ponytail as well just to top the look off. Meat Loaf has actually been in a few horror anthology show's including this, What's Cookin' (1992) from Tales from the Crypt, Gettysburg (2000) from The Outer Limits & Pelts (2006) from Masters of Horror. There's a bit of gore here including a cut out knee cap, poked out eyeballs & a ripped out heart.

Where's the Rest of Me? is a watchable mad scientist Frankenstein style Monsters episode that I actually liked, there was a decent enough story, the main monster had purpose & the two sets look rather nice. A good solid episode, by no means the best but nowhere near the worst.

Where's the Rest of Me?

[lost-in-limbo · 30 July 2011]

Episode six of Season one, sees a corpse coming back to life to exact revenge on a doctor and his wealthy dinner guests. Before going on its rampage, the corpse was accidentally re-animated by an overdosed of a preservation serum which is used so the body keeps fresh becoming an internal flesh bank for the living. These guests at the doctor's house happen to have some of its organs and intend to invest in the doctor's work. "Science is the real power of the future". While going on in the background (well from discussions and noises coming from outside the villa) is a civil war on the Caribbean island. To mix political with its scientific ramblings. Guest star happens to be rock-star Meatloaf, who gives a sober portrayal as the mad doctor. All of the performances are convincing, but leaden. It's a compact outing from its glum, straight-up story to its obvious, cheap two sets (brightly lit dinning room and dingy cellar). Make-up artist Dick Smith contributes the solid FX, as there are some nice and gory little surprises. It's rather nasty where it virtually goes about setting up each comeuppance death scene through moody atmospherics, but in all its morbidly fun.

"Come on pal, back to the morgue".

a fun, low budget Darkside-esque show, but this episode...

[stoneweather · 3/10 · 2 May 2021]

Meatloaf's rigid 'acting' is similarly wretched and entertaining, it's hard to actually pay attention to what's going on in the episode because of it, lol... i've seen him act in more recent things and he's not bad, NOW... but this, this is purely a poop covered gem.

Omg

[teebear817 · 1/10 · 3 February 2021]

I came across this episode of a show called Monsters. I never heard of it. I had no intention of watching it until I saw Franco Harris was in it... being from Pittsburgh I wanted to see what kind of a job he did ..frankly I expected him to be horrible I thought he would be very bad ....to my surprise he was not horrible I would grade him as a c minus. the one that was horrible was Meatloaf. Every scene he was in should have hit The Cutting Room floor ...absolutely horrible horrible actor.. maybe the worst I've ever seen in my life ...how he got this role is anybody's guess

Welcome to Tales from the Darkside

[Leofwine_draca · 4/10 · 28 June 2015]

WHERE'S THE REST OF ME? seems to be MONSTERS' answer to RE-ANIMATOR, albeit without the plotting and the copious bloodshed of the Stuart Gordon film. It's a simple story about a mad scientist who brings the dead back to life in order to harvest their organs, and inevitably there are unforeseen consequences for all those involved.

WHERE'S THE REST OF ME? is notable for featuring a central performance from actor/musician Meatloaf, who hams it up for all his worth as the villain of the piece. Meatloaf is certainly an acquired taste - he's great in some stuff, like FIGHT CLUB, but not so much here - but he's still the most memorable about this otherwise derivative story.

When unwilling organ donors strike back

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 19 June 2019]

Mad scientist Dr. Willard Wingite (a sturdy and convincing performance by rocker Meat Loaf) uses the corpse of a deceased man (an impressive physical portrayal by Frank Tarsia) as a source of organs for his wealthy clients. Complications ensue when the guy returns back to angry life so he can get his organs back.

Writer/director Richard Benner relates the enjoyable and engrossing story at a steady pace, ably crafts a grim atmosphere, and delivers several moments of fairly gruesome splatter complete with a cool grisly punchline. Moreover, Meat Loaf brings a deliciously lip-smacking relish to his juicy role. The folks playing the entitled rich clients are suitably grotesque and hateful: Franco Harris as football star Joe, Drew Eliot as the jerky J.J. Marshall, and Black-Eyed Susan as singer Regina Wells. Robert Draper's slick cinematography makes lively and galvanizing use of a constantly moving camera. A nifty show.

Ghoul

[Bored_Dragon · 4/10 · 19 September 2018]

I'm starting to wonder if there's any point in continuing with this series. Ideas for the episodes are mostly good, some of them quite original, but the episodes themselves look like they were written and filmed in one afternoon or have been made by complete amateurs who have never filmed anything before.

This episode is no exception. In some third world dictatorship, a mad doctor invented a serum that allows him to quickly and efficiently transplant the organs of executed revolutionaries to wealthy customers. Everything goes smoothly until one of the bodies receives an overdose of serum and wakes up to take his organs back. Based on this, you can assume that this could easily have been a terrifying horror or perhaps a hilarious comedy, but unfortunately, it is not. The only bright spot of the episode is Meat Loaf in the leading role.

4/10