Monolith Monsters
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VHS Movie Reviews of Monolith Monsters
Movie Review: GRANT and ARNOLD redux!
Summary: 4 Stars
Fresh from "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (which see, preferably WITH this one -in one evening, with short subject/cartoon, on the patio on the biggest screen you got, on a summer's night)we have Grant Williams the star and Jack Arnold the writer, if not the director. Tremendous just from that standpoint alone and well worth watching and discussing with the kids.Movie Review: THE MOST COMPELLING PHALLIC IMAGERY IN CINEMA
Summary: 5 Stars
...for what that's worth. Like the last reviewer, I saw it at a very early age. Thirty years later (channel flipping at 1 am), I recognized it instantly--from nothing more than the opening scene of a car moving down a desert highway. It must be a very special movie that something like that should happen--twice, judging from saxsdad's review. And forget the allegory-for-the-communist-threat hypothesis: that's a (thankfully discredited) analysis of 50's sci-fi that began in the paraniod imaginings of professors paid on the side by the column inch. Nevertheless, Monolith Monsters abounds in rich Freudian imagery (this last to film students hard-up for a paper topic). And it has all the elements of classic Hollywood 50's sci-fi: it takes place in the DESERT, there are Scientifical Experiments and Explanations, it has Alien Monsters, and High-Technology (albeit an iron lung)--all except radiation (being the California desert, not NM). The B/W photography rounds out Monolith Monster's bona fides. Get it while you still can. Whenever you have an apartment that needs cleaning, dishes that need washing, or a paper due in the morning, you'll never tire of watching this instead.Movie Review: Not your average 50's scifi monster movie...
Summary: 4 Stars
I remember this movie as a kid in the early 60's when it first turned up on television and never forgot it. Not your average giant insect, giant reptile kind of escapism. It stands as an original for it's time and like most all of those nuclear terror scifi films, it does have a message of sorts, but mostly it is just plain unique fun...after all, how often are rocks the culprit of our anialation--current meteor flicks excepted.Movie Review: Typical, but interesting. The original Magic Rocks.
Summary: 3 Stars
This is the same kind of dull '50s sci-fi we're all used to. You know, the kind that winds up on MST3K because it's so bad! Many people have drawn the Communist-Threat analogy to this type of movie which goes to show you can read just about anything into a weather report or a Valentine. The threat this time is brought about by a mysterious meteor that crashes to earth depositing a strange, black, obsidian-like rock all around the impact site in the desert. But when a geologist spills water on a fragment, it GROWS! If that weren't bad enough, it absorbs moisture from anything nearby, including people. Soon, the rocks begin to grow into tall spires, which fall over and create more fragments that grow and... well, you get the idea. The little helpless town of San Angelo is directly in the path of the oncoming monoliths, and there's a race against time to figure out a way to stop the menace.
Imagine being menaced by mono-colored Magic Rocks and you've got the picture.
If John Agar were in it, he could not have made this flick more unbearable to watch. Rotten acting abounds, although the heroine love interest is cute and has a certain amount of talent. The idea of the movie is pretty clever too. This might make a really good remake.
Buy it if you've got tons of bucks. Rent it otherwise.