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

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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