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==Summary==<br />
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"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. <br />
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==Details==<br />
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* Release Date: 1953<br />
* Country/Language: US, English<br />
* Genres/Technical: Sci-fi, Horror, Fantasy, Disaster, black-and-white<br />
* Runtime: 1 hr 17 min<br />
* Starring: Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne <br />
* Director: John Sherwood<br />
* Writer: Norman Jolley and Robert M. Fresco (screenplay)<br />
* Producer/Production Co: Universal International Pictures (UI)<br />
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oeiaED_0WE link])<br />
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==Ratings==<br />
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* Rated: (not rated) (perhaps equivalent to a G or PG for 1950s drive-in-friendly off-screen Violence)<br />
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===Tentacle Ratings===<br />
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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....)<br />
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===Reviews===<br />
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* Innsmouth Free Press, ([http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/column-the-vault-of-secrets-the-monolith-monsters-1957/ 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...."<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
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Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community. <br />
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==Notes==<br />
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===Associated Mythos Elements===<br />
* film: compare to the [[Quatermass (1953 franchise)]]'', which is very similar in content, theme, and tone...<br />
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* race: Monolith Monsters<br />
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