Monster on the Campus (1958)

Directed by

Jack Arnold

Genre

horror film, science fiction film, monster film, thriller film, science fiction horror film, natural horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 17m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 53 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A college science professor gets exposed to irradiated fish blood. The substance makes him turn into a violent caveman at times.

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What happens

Monster on the Campus is a 1958 American black-and-white science fiction/horror film from Universal-International, produced by Joseph Gershenson, directed by Jack Arnold, from a script by David Duncan, that stars Arthur Franz, Joanna Cook Moore, Nancy Walters, Troy Donahue, and Whit Bissell. The film was theatrically released by Universal Pictures on October 15, 1958, at various cities across the United States. The film's storyline tells of a university science professor who accidentally comes into contact with the irradiated blood of a coelacanth, which causes him to "regress" to being a primitive caveman. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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