Cosmic Monsters

Name: Cosmic Monsters
Released: 1958
Rating: 18.27
Cast: Dandy Nichols, Forrest Tucker, Alec Mango, Martin Benson, Richard Warner

1958

Drama, Sci-fi

1h 15m

At a small, rural British lab, monomaniac Dr. Laird and his staff create ultra-intense magnetic fields. Inexplicably, the apparatus seems to be affecting distant objects, and to be drawing "extra power" from...somewhere. One night, after a "freak" storm, strange and deadly things start happening in Bryerly Woods, and a strange man from "a long way off" appears in the district...concerned about Laird's pulling down disaster from the skies. (imdb)

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The Strange World of Planet X

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Cosmic Monsters

1958

Drama, Sci-fi

1h 15m

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tonydal

Rated 08 Oct 2012

Most of this one is pretty good. Then the special effects show up, and they look pretty much like something Peter Brady concocted in his back yard (while he was working on that volcano). Unlike the usual plague film, this one throws everything at us, from spiders to lizards to worms.

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Rated 09 Jun 2022

Dry, convoluted plotting with very little happening. The "climactic" fun is 90% stock footage of insect close-ups, but there is one shot of a corpse having a chomp taken out of its face by some kind of prop... and as fake as it is, I love it. I've got to say though, I just can't hack sustained close-ups of actual spiders; far more effective in freaking me out than half the crap I watch. So in that sense, I guess this is technically one of the scariest films I've seen? Don't judge me.

Rated 09 Jun 2022

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