The Monolith Monsters (1957)
- Directed by
- John Sherwood
- Genre
- horror film, science fiction film, monster film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 86 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A meteorite crashes in a desert and breaks into black fragments. When the fragments get wet they grow into giant monoliths and turn people to stone. A small town must stop the spreading disaster before it covers the world.
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What happens
The Monolith Monsters is a 1957 American science-fiction disaster film from Universal-International, produced by Howard Christie, directed by John Sherwood, and starring Grant Williams and Lola Albright. The film is based on a story by Jack Arnold and Robert M. Fresco, with a screenplay by Fresco and Norman Jolley. The film was released on December 6, 1957 on a double bill with Love Slaves of the Amazons (1957). The Monolith Monsters tells the story of a large meteorite that crashes in a Southern California desert and explodes into hundreds of black fragments that have strange properties. When those fragments are exposed to water, they grow extremely large and tall. The fragments also begin to cause some of the inhabitants of a nearby small town to petrify. The unfolding story becomes one of human survival against an encroaching unnatural disaster that, if not stopped, could become an ecological nightmare, and pose a threat to all of humanity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Black Scorpion (1957)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.