The Monolith Monsters Imdb
I always liked 50s monster movies, and even today the best hold up pretty well. Oh, the science is often silly, but. Certainly the most imaginative threat in these shows up in The Monolith Monsters. It starts with a. The Monolith Monsters is a science fiction film directed by John Sherwood and starring Grant Williams and Lola Albright.It is based on a story by Jack Arnold and Robert M. Fresco with screenplay by Fresco and Normal Jolley.Considering when this was made,it might seem a strandard sci fi horror tale,but being that monster are inanimate objects growing mindless,due some sort of environmental.
They crush all that stand in their path!A giant meteor crashes to Earth near the small town of San Angelo and local geologist Ben Gilbert (Phil Harvey, The Deadly Mantis) brings a fragment back to his lab for testing. Shortly afterwards, fellow geologist Dave Miller (Grant Williams, The Leech Woman) arrives to find the lab filled with rocks. And Ben is dead. His body turned completely to stone!Now in a desperate race against time, Dave and Professor Arthur Flanders (Trevor Bardette, Death Valley Days) must unlock the secret of the deadly rocks from outer space before they turn the world to stone and destroy mankind! Also featuring Lola Albright (Peyton Place), William Schallert (The Man From Planet X), and Troy Donahue (Monster On The Campus), The Monolith Monsters ratchets up the 'tension and suspense. And the actors really put it across to the viewer, creating a very compelling film' (The Telltale Mind)!
When I was a tiny person, watching the old late night TV movies, this was a peculiar film that had me absolutely terrified. My sisters laughed at me, but the falling rocks made me dive for cover into the sofa. Maybe it was the little girl turning to stone that tripped the goosebumps in me?I have looked for this movie on occasion, finding that Amazon wants too much for a rental (and their copy isn't much better quality than this one, TBH), so I was tickled to stone that had it.
If only the copy was sharper, it would be a five star film.