The Monolith Monsters (1957 film)
Summary
"Mammoth skyscrapers of stone thundering across the earth! From outer space they came - meteor-borne, meteor strange! This was the day the Monolith Monsters attacked the Earth!" Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
Details
- Release Date: 1953
- Country/Language: US, English
- Genres/Technical: Sci-fi, Horror, Fantasy, Disaster, black-and-white
- Runtime: 1 hr 17 min
- Starring: Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne
- Director: John Sherwood
- Writer: Norman Jolley and Robert M. Fresco (screenplay)
- Producer/Production Co: Universal International Pictures (UI)
- View Trailer: (link)
Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: (not rated) (perhaps equivalent to a G or PG for 1950s drive-in-friendly off-screen Violence)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)
The strange, nightmarish, and inexplicable world-threatening monolith "monsters" along with the apocalyptic sci-fi/horror tends to come across as "Lovecraftian" to some viewers (some viewers found the sound of the monoliths alone redolent of eldritch outer spheres....)
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
Reviews
Review Links:
- Innsmouth Free Press, (link) - "...The movie itself is a surprisingly effective and largely forgotten gem of 1950s monster movie paranoia, boasting some of the most unique monsters ever put on film...."
Synopsis
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Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
Notes
Comments, Trivia, Dedication
Associated Mythos Elements
- film: compare to the Quatermass (1953 franchise), which is very similar in content, theme, and tone...
- TO DO
- race: Monolith Monsters
