The Monolith Monsters

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Daniel C. M @RT91944882 07/21/2024 Very fun "creature" feature with amazing effects. Recommended view for every lover of this type of movie. See more CodyZamboni Z @CodyZamboni 06/11/2024 Surprisingly good B flick. Smart, exciting, with empathetic, resourceful characters. As a small town battles towering shards of space rocks. The rocks grow, fall over, bust into pieces, then grow again. Kudos to the cheaply made, but effective fx. See more Ted B @Movieaddicted 06/09/2024 3.5 stars; I can remember seeing this movie as a kid and thinking it was very silly—rocks multiplying. What a concept! Now, watching this movie as an adult, I can appreciate a certain level of sophistication in this movie in the 1950s science fiction genre. There was an actual attempt to incorporate science, as it was understood then, into a drive-in-level film. I like the technique of using the innocence of a very young girl in shock to amp up the mystery of what was terrorizing the town. The same technique was used in "Them." Given the low budget of these films, I'm surprised more film aficionados aren't as appreciative of the 1950s science-fiction genre. See more Evan D @RT76289043 10/19/2023 A very creative premise for a science fiction movie. See more georgan g @RT98616417 09/17/2022 Very unique plot with "scientific" rationale. Special effects weren't the high point, but still acceptable for 1957. Same lead actor as in The Incredible Shrinking Man. See more 06/27/2022 Just as the town is overwhelmed by the monsters, the movie itself sinks quickly into trite B-movie time-filler. Things start out promising enough. Beautiful desert surrounding a town as we meet the people, see a meteor fall. There's a deceptively simple yet brilliantly done scene, full of fateful foreshadowing, with a child talking with her teacher on a field trip. When the scientist and his lady (Grant Williams and Lola Albright) race to the girl's house later that night, it's downright spooky and near horrifying. But after these scenes, it's lots of ineffective second-banana actors talking endlessly about science that we know isn't real, since gigantic crystallized monsters don't really overwhelm towns. Grant Williams shows the powerful acting he did in "The Incredible Shrinking Man" was no fluke. Lola Albright is achingly beautiful and believable early on, but she's increasingly called on to portray emotions she can't quite do. What seems to be a lack of experience on her part is exposed, sacrificing believability. Things seem to be done in more of a hurry the longer the movie goes on. The biggest monster they could not defeat is there just wasn't enough material to pad it out to a full-length show. There's too many talking scenes and too little action, delivering the death blow to this science fiction film's hopes. See more Read all reviews

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