The Monolith Monsters (1957) on Netflix
Approved19571h 17mDramaHorrorSci-Fi
A meteorite crashes in the desert outside San Angelo, scattering black fragments. Geologist Dave Miller returns from a trip to find his colleague petrified and the office laboratory wrecked.
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Plot summary
A meteorite comes down in the desert outside San Angelo, California, and scatters black fragments across the sand. Ben Gilbert, a federal geologist, takes one fragment to his office, where he and Martin Cochrane, the local newspaper publisher, examine it. Dave Miller, head of the district geological office, comes back from a business trip to find Ben's body hardened like stone and the laboratory littered with the same black rock. Dr. E. J. Reynolds performs the autopsy. Cathy Barrett takes her students on a desert field trip, and Ginny Simpson pockets a piece of the rock.
Cast
- William Flahertyas Police Chief Dan Corey
- Linda Scheleyas Ginny Simpson
- Dean Cromeras Highway Patrolman
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The self-replicating mineral in the film became the basis for Tiberium in the Command and Conquer video game series.
- Special effects were created by Clifford Stine, whose career began in 1933 with King Kong; the meteor crash in the opening sequence reuses alternate takes of effects Stine made for Universal's It Came from Outer Space (1953).
