Monolith Monsters, The

The Monolith Monsters is an American feature film of the science fiction and horror genres. It was produced by Universal International Pictures (UI) and distributed through Universal Pictures. It was directed by John Sherwood with a screenplay written by Norman Jolley and Robert M. Fresco based on a story treatment by Jack Arnold and Robert M. Fresco. The movie stars Grant Williams as Dave Miller, Lola Albright as Cathy Barrett, Les Tremayne as Martin Cochrane, Trevor Bardette as Professor Arthur Flanders, and Phil Harvey as Ben Gilbert. It was released theatrically in the United States on December 18th, 1957.

The Monolith Monsters tells the story of a large meteorite that crashes in a Southern California desert and explodes into hundreds of black fragments with strange properties. When those fragments are exposed to water, they grow very large and tall. The fragments also begin to slowly petrify some of the inhabitants of a nearby small town. The story that unfolds becomes one of human survival against an encroaching unnatural disaster, that if not stopped, could become a national ecological nightmare that could pose a possible threat to all of humanity.