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The Monolith Monsters (1957) was a Science Fiction - Horror Film directed by John Sherwood and produced by Howard Christie.

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The Monolith Monsters (1957, John Sherwood)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 25, 2016 From The Stop Button

Against the odds, The Monolith Monsters almost comes together in the finale. The special effects are good, there’s a lot of tension, none of the acting is too bad. And then the end flops. I want to blame director Sherwood, maybe screenwriters Norman Jolley and Robert M. Fresco, maybe editor Pa... Read full article


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Joe Higgins: Look at the dog - it's as hard as a piece of granite!


Prof. Arthur Flanders: No telling what went on inside of it. It's been gathering the secrets of time and space for billions of years.
Dave Miller: Billions of years? And how long have we to unlock its most important secrets? Three hours or three minutes?


Chief Dan Corey: Evacuate? The entire town?
Dave Miller: Chief, the rocks are gonna come crashing through here like an avalanche over an anthill. There won't be a living thing left. You won't even be able to tell where San Angelo was.
Prof. Arthur Flanders: When they're no longer confined to the walls of the canyon, whwn they break out into the valley floor, their rate of multiplication is going to be frightening.
Chief Dan Corey: You mean they'll grow even faster?
Dave Miller: Each one that shatters will make a hundred more.
Prof. Arthur Flanders: When that hundred shatters, there'll be ten thousand of them. The third cycle will create a million. Unless we stop them, they'll spread over the whole countryside.
Dave Miller: With enough rain, there's no boundary they can't cross.


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Universal Pictures released this film on a double feature with Love Slaves of the Amazons.
The meteor crash is footage of the spaceship crash from It Came from Outer Space which Universal produced four years earlier.
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Also released in 1957




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