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Monster Strike (モンスターストライク)
Monster Strike (モンスターストライク) is the anime franchise of Mixi's 2013 smartphone action RPG, launched as a 7-minute YouTube web anime on October 10, 2015, later spanning films, the 2025 TV series Deadverse Reloaded, and Mera×Death (2027).
Monster Study
The Monster Study (Tudor Study) was a 1939 University of Iowa experiment by Wendell Johnson and Mary Tudor on 22 Iowa orphans, testing whether labeling children as stutterers changed fluency; it induced no stuttering but caused lasting distress and became a landmark research-ethics case.
Monster truck
A monster truck is a purpose-built pickup-styled competition vehicle with enormous tires and a tubular chassis, built to crush cars, race, and perform freestyle stunts.
Monster Trucks (film)
Monster Trucks is a 2017 American live-action and computer-animated family adventure film directed by Chris Wedge, about a teenage mechanic whose pickup is powered by a subterranean creature.
Monster under the bed
The monster under the bed is a household form of the bogeyman: a shapeless imaginary creature children fear in the dark space beneath beds and adults invoke for bedtime discipline, with analogues like El Cucuy and Le Bonhomme Sept Heures worldwide.
Monster Village
Monster Village (妖怪村), formally Songlin Ting (松林町), is a free-entry, Japanese-style themed shopping district in Xitou, Nantou County, Taiwan, opened in 2009, known for monster legend theming.
Monster-in-Law
Monster-in-Law is a 2005 American romantic comedy directed by Robert Luketic and starring Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda, whose return to films after a fifteen-year absence it marks.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Monster: The Ed Gein Story is the third season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's Netflix anthology Monster, released October 3, 2025: eight episodes starring Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein, debuting to 12.2 million views but 23% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is the fourth season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's Netflix anthology, released September 17, 2026, starring Ella Beatty as Lizzie Borden; first female subject, poorly reviewed, heavily fictionalized.
Monster.com
Monster.com, also known as the Monster website, is an online employment website for job postings and resume searches, founded in 1994 as The Monster Board.
Monster's Ball
Monster's Ball is a 2001 American drama directed by Marc Forster, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry as a racist death-row guard and an executed prisoner's widow; Berry won the 2002 Best Actress Oscar.
Monstera
Monstera is a genus of evergreen climbing plants in the arum family, native from Mexico to tropical America, known for large perforated leaves behind the name Swiss cheese plant.
Monstera deliciosa
Monstera deliciosa (Swiss-cheese plant, ceriman, tarovine) is a hemiepiphytic Araceae vine native to southern Mexico to Guatemala, grown for fenestrated leaves and edible ripe fruit; toxic unripe parts, high invasion risk in Florida.
Monstercat
Monstercat, also Monstercat Media Inc., is a Canadian independent electronic dance music label founded in 2011 by Mike Darlington and Ari Paunonen, with Uncaged, Instinct, and Silk brands, gaming partnerships, and creator licensing via SoundScout and Gold.
Monsterland
Monsterland (Hulu, 2020) is an eight-episode horror anthology created by Mary Laws, based on Nathan Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters; distinct from the 2016 film, the 2008 film, and the 2015 Steam game of the same name.
Monsters (2010 film)
Monsters (2010 film) is a 2010 British science-fiction film, a debut for Gareth Edwards, where an American photojournalist escorts his boss's daughter through a quarantined zone in Mexico.
Monsters (manga)
Monsters (MONSTERS) is Eiichiro Oda's 1994 one-shot manga about the samurai Ryuma, collected in WANTED! and adapted in 2024 as the anime Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation.
Monsters at Work
Monsters at Work, also Monsters At Work, is a Disney Television Animation animated comedy series (2021–2024, two seasons) serving as a direct sequel to Monsters, Inc., following Tylor Tuskmon's path from MIFT mechanic to Jokester.
Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan
Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan is a 2021 four-part Netflix true-crime docuseries directed by Olivier Megaton about Billy Milligan, whose 24-personality dissociative identity disorder defense led to a first-of-its-kind 1978 insanity acquittal.
Monsters of God
Monsters of God is a 2026 five-part HBO documentary series by Eric Goode (Tiger King, Chimp Crazy) tracing the billion-dollar illegal reptile smuggling trade, based on Bryan Christy's The Lizard King, winner of the 2026 SXSW TV Premiere Audience Award.
Monsters of Man
Monsters of Man is a 2020 sci-fi action film written, directed, shot and self-financed by Mark Toia, in which four weaponized prototype robots test-deployed in the Golden Triangle kill villagers and hunt six American doctors.
Monsters of Rock
Monsters of Rock, annual one-day hard rock and heavy metal festival at Donington Park, Castle Donington, Leicestershire, 1980-1996; Rainbow headlined the 1980 debut; predecessor of Download Festival.
Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment
Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment is a KUKA-arm motion-simulation dark ride at Universal Epic Universe's Dark Universe land, opened May 22, 2025, where Dr. Victoria Frankenstein's failed Dracula experiment unleashes 14 animated Universal Monsters.
Monsters University
Monsters University, also known as Monsters U, is a 2013 Pixar animated comedy film directed by Dan Scanlon, a prequel to Monsters, Inc. following Mike and Sulley in college.
Monsters vs. Aliens
Monsters vs. Aliens is a 2009 American computer-animated comedy from DreamWorks Animation, directed by Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon, in which government-held monsters defend Earth from an alien invasion.
Monsters We Make
Monsters We Make, also Monsters We Make (CoryxKenshin manga), is a horror sci-fi manga series by YouTuber CoryxKenshin, Corey Mikell, and artist Andrew Gong about Jabari Booker fighting Leakers at New Edyn Academy, distinct from novels by Kali White and Rachel Corbett.
Monsters, Inc.
Monsters, Inc. (Monsters, Incorporated) is Pixar's 2001 computer-animated film directed by Pete Docter, in which scarers Sulley and Mike Wazowski hide a human child, Boo; it grossed $579.8 million and won the Best Original Song Oscar.
Monsters, Inc. (franchise)
Monsters, Inc. franchise (Monsters, Inc.; Monsters University; Monsters at Work): Disney-Pixar series set in Monstropolis, where scream power gives way to laughter energy, spanning two films, a Disney+ series, and the Monstropolis theme park land opening 2027.
Monsters: Dark Continent
Monsters: Dark Continent (2014), Tom Green's sequel to Gareth Edwards' Monsters, follows US soldiers in the Middle East fighting insurgents and aliens; released 2015 by RADiUS-TWC, it scored 18% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is the 2024 second installment of Netflix's Monster anthology by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, nine episodes dramatizing the 1989 Beverly Hills murders of José and Kitty Menendez and the trials, notable for its incest-storyline controversy and effect on the brothers' resentencing bid.