This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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.

Yes, it's another sci-fi flick from the '50s. "The Monolith Monsters" is about a meteor that crashes in the California desert, and pieces of it get exposed to water and grow to the size of buildings, threatening a nearby town. The characters in "2001: A Space Odyssey" never had to deal with these sorts of monoliths!* As is pretty much always the case with '50s sci-fi flicks, the whole thing is very enjoyable, although I did occasionally take the time to throw out the kinds of comments that the characters on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" make. An interesting thing about this movie is that there's a family named Simpson, and a character named Flanders.Anyway, good times.*Once while taking a course about Stanley Kubrick's movies, I thought of something: the word monolith in Greek means "one stone", which is also what Einstein means.

Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.Let me just say there is nothing too terribly scary about rocks that grow, fall over, and then grow again. Petrifying people is kind of scary, but I was not even clear how that was happening. And did the governor really need to be called? The town finds out pretty quickly what makes the rocks grow and finds out almost as quickly what makes them die. The way they ultimately destroy the rocks (which I will not reveal here) made very little sense to me given what we know about them and the huge bill they would have to pay, but what do I know?

Since its initial release to theaters, "The Monolith Monsters" has drifted somewhat towards obscurity, despite being made by a major Hollywood studio. That's too bad, because this is a pretty fun little "giant monster" movie, in part because there are some elements here that seem fresh compared to other '50s giant monster movies. The threat isn't something with intelligence (animal or otherwise), so there is a feeling that the characters are really dealing with something unknown and unheard of before. The idea of humanity being threatened with rocks is also an original one. The script is fairly intelligent, with enough science to feel smart yet not alienate any members of the audience. And the tone is serious, not campy in any way. The only objections I found were that it's never shown just exactly how the giant rocks feed off their human victims, and that it takes a bit longer than usual for a feeling of panic and urgency to build up. But those are minor quibbles; as I said earlier, this is a fun movie.