charlestt-26841 This movie has MONSTER in the title, yet there is no such thing. If you consider charcoal that grows, gives up and falls down, which brings more charcoal, which does the same thing, a monster, then you find watching grass grow as pretty monstrous.Since there's so much charcoal about, people end up touching it and just like when there's too much garbage around, the inevitable is that some people will get sick and die. The movie is no more exciting than that. Well, at least growing grass can't kill you. Bar-B-Que anyone? BTW, just like with real charcoal, you kill it by depriving it of water. My, my, my. I at least expect a stupid rubber suit with these B-movies which have the word MONSTERS in them, but not here. The charcoal don't raise their arms and walk slowly towards you (they fall slowly in all directions), they don't let out blood curdling yells (they don't even whisper), they don't have blood on the face (if they had a face), and you will never see them in a Monster Mash movie.

bsmith5552 "The Monolith Monsters" was another of the low budget little Sci-Fi/Horror films turned out by Universal in the 1950s.This one is about a meteor crashing in the desert leaving a number of fragments scattered about. Geologist Ben Gilbert (Phil Harvey) stops among the fragments to add water to his car's radiator and takes along a meteor fragment for analysis.Back at the office, the fragment becomes wet with water and begins a reaction. The next day Gilbert's boss Dave Miller (Grant Williams) finds Gilbert essentially turned to stone with the fluids drained from his body. An autopsy by local doctor Reynolds (Richard H. Cutting) finds nothing. Newspaper man Martin Cochrane (Les Tremayne) wants to report the incident but is cautioned not to.Meanwhile on a school excursion on the desert, a little girl Ginnie Simpson (Linda Scheley), picks up a fragment to take home. Ginnie's teacher Cathy Barrett (Lola Albright) becomes alarmed when she learns of Gilbert's fate. Dave and Police Chief Dan Corey (William Flaherty) learn of this, they go immediately to the little girl's home. They find the girl's parents petrified and their farm in shambles with several more meteor fragments in evidence. Ginnie has survived but is in shock.Dr. Reynolds refers Dave, Cathy and Ginnie to Dr. Steve Hendricks (Harry Jackson) who discovers that Ginnie has begun to turn to stone. He feverishly tries to save her. In the meantime, Dave consults with his old professor, Flanders (Trevor Bardette) to try to find the cause of the trouble. They discover that the meteor and it's fragments grow to an astronomical size when exposed to water.Just then, as luck would have it, a thunder storm breaks out and.................................Most of the "horror" scenes are in the final quarter of the film. The first three quarters is spent trying to find out what is going on. I didn't find the monolith monsters all that scary although the premise of them rolling over the town suggests more horror than it shows.Grant Williams in his follow up to "The Incredible Shrinking Man" the previous year is nothing more than a card board hero this time around. Lola Albright would find fame as Peter Gunn's girl Friday in the TV series of the same name. Les Tremayne was a noted radio actor and voice over narrator. And watch for youthful Paul Peterson (as a paper boy), Troy Donahue and William Schallert in small unbilled parts.

Michael O'Keefe John Sherwood directs this sometimes forgotten classic. It was the mid 50's and things were mostly blamed on radiation or...something from outer space. Grant Williams plays scientist Dave Miller, who is prominent in the investigation and research of what follows after a meteor crashes into the desert. The meteor breaks into pieces and the many fragments start growing extremely large when they are exposed to water. Soon these "Monolith Monsters" begin sucking the moisture out of humans, thus in turn human life becomes petrified versions of itself. Can this phenomenal situation be reversed?Other players: Lola Albright, Trevor Bardette, Les Tremayne, William Flaherty, Phil Harvey and William Schallert.

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.