Numerootno
A story that's too fascinating to pass by...
Hattie
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Philippa
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
morrigan1982
It is amazing that you can make a movie with so little and the movie could turn up decent. The movie has no great budget but the idea behind it it's so great and simple. Meteors that crushed to earth and they threaten it! Rocks that broke in thousands of small parts and they multiply with water! The quit life of a small graphic town want be the same again. People's bodies turn into rock and the only ones who can help is the geologists. The biggest enemy now is rain! Rain that gives life, now threatens this little town. Rain will help the rocks to grow and everything around the rock will seize to exist. In general this is pretty much a typical scifi movie. We have the girl, the scientist, love, a big threat by a strange unknown enemy and we are waiting for science to find a solution and save the day. The acting is OK and the scenario is great! The movie it's really entertaining and for those of you who love science fiction, I think you will enjoy it too.
dougdoepke
Nifty little sci-fi from Universal's skilled production crew that includes ace craftsman and connoisseur of the desert, Jack Arnold, as one of the writers. So, how do you turn rocks into monsters since about everything else gets the monster treatment in the 1950's. Well, you start with the familiar visitor from outer space, in this case a meteorite with strange properties that crashes near a remote desert town. Then you have the rock chunks growing like weeds when in contact with water. In fact, they grow so tall, they topple over crushing everything beneath. Worse, each new chunk is like a seed from which new monoliths grow, spreading like a rocky army. So pray it doesn't rain. And, oh yeah, better not touch them or you turn to stone. Yikes! The little town is in big trouble.Williams again shows why he is more than just another pretty face as he tries to figure a way to stop the rocky onslaught. Ditto, leading lady Albright. In fact, it's a stellar lineup of familiar B-actors, making the whole tall tale halfway believable. Tension stays pretty much on high throughout as the battle intensifies. Shrewdly, the screenplay makes the struggle more personal by including the little girl's plight. Her struggle against turning to stone really involves us in a personal way.The 70-minutes may not be front-rank 50's sci-fi, but it's much better than you might expect, well-done in all departments, especially special effects. So, tune in, despite the comic book title. You might be pleasantly surprised.
ctomvelu1
A meteor plummets to Earth and shatters into many pieces. When exposed to water, each shard grows and eventually topples over, shattering and spreading more shards, which in turn begin to grow. Contact with an active piece causes petrification, so we have various humans and animals dying as the stuff advances. A small town is in its path, and the inhabitants must figure a way to stop this thing. Grant Williams and Lola Albright, both stalwarts of TV and the big screen, play a pair of intrepid geologists. The small cast does a topnotch job. The special effects are impressive for the time. The basic premise was the same one used for THE BLOB.
MartinHafer
I like 1950s sci-fi/horror films--both the well-made and intelligent ones (like "The Day the Earth Stood Still") and the cheesy ones ("Invasion of the Saucer Men"). And, if you like these films, you'll probably enjoy "The Monolith Monsters"--and it's about average for the genre. However, if you don't like these films, then I seriously doubt if this one will change your mind.The film begins with some strange meteorite falling in the desert. Little do people know that these odd rocks can both multiply AND grow to enormous proportions! But, what makes this even worse is that they can also turn people into stone-like dead folks! So, it's either us or the stones! In the end, fortunately, the people of the town apparently watched "Frankentein Meets the Wolfman" as they use this strategy to beat these evil alien rocks! While this all sounds pretty dumb, believe it or not, they handle it in a literate and reasonably credible manner. Brilliant? No. But it is watchable and fun.
