Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Monster On Campus (1958)





This is a B-Picture atomic twist with university students thrown in for good measure.  Someone discovers a giant prehistoric fish, perfectly preserved, and, of course, it gets exposed to gamma rays, making it's blood a toxic radioactive substance.  The research professor studying, exposed to this blood, then turns into a monstrous ape like hominid that starts stalking the campus.  Why it turns him into a ape monster, I've never really gotten....I know that the whole plot revolves around "de-evolution," but it seems to me a fish monster would have been much more "50's"!
















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