The 1950's were, in many ways, the "Golden Era" of monster movies. Dinosaurs like "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" and Godzilla made their appearances along with other animals like the giant octopus of "It Came From Beneath the Sea." Eventually the people in Hollywood would to run out of things to use as giant monsters.

The Monolith Monsters is about some rocks that grow big and turn people to stone. Yes, you read that right. This film is about monster rocks. You have to wonder who came up with that brilliant idea and how the boardroom reacted to his idea about "monster rocks."

The plot is basically about some rocks which fall to the earth as meteorites. When they are exposed to water they grow rapidly absorbing the silicon from every source: wood, trees and even people. As you may expect this causes panic and scientists have to figure out how to stop it.

I'd like to describe the film in more detail but there really isn't anything else to say. Quite frankly, the film was dull and pointless. There were too many scenes of pasty white people jabbering about nonsense. These scenes usually don't kill a monster movie as you really only care about the beasts themselves and yet, it's hard to get excited over paper mache crystals moving slowly towards a city.

Skip this one.

To read the rest of the reviews of the films on this disc, check out my partial earlier review as well as my review of The Incredible Shrinking Man, earlier this week.

Labels: 31 days of film, Bad Movies, Crap, sci-fi