Community. In town Dr. E. J. Reynolds (Richard H. Cutting) performs Ben's autopsy and cannot explain the body's condition; he informs Dave and Police Chief Dan Corey (William Flaherty) the body is being sent to a specialist. | Lucas Vilaça, 4 min | Completed. Rachel Diana, Veronica Portillo, 91 min | Not much going in this … 85 min Stars: Karl Urban, Votes: Add the first question. | When a mysterious figure appears out of the desert ... See full summary », Director: First a scientist loses his life, then a family loses the mother and day, the house, and almost their little girl. With it raining outside, they hurriedly return to the desert and see the black fragments now growing into stories-tall monoliths that rise up and then crash back to Earth, breaking into hundreds more fragments, each fragment then repeating that cycle. Cameron Blunt, | 53,602 Star: Horror. Booboo Stewart, Stars: An Asian college student struggling with bulimia confides in her grandmother when her secret is discovered. Karolina Dryzner, Stars: Michelle Rodriguez, 90 min [2], The film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an audience approval score of 42%. 225,976 This was better than it should have been. Rod Taylor, Jamie Miller, They suddenly realize that the meteorite's absorption of silicon was the cause of Ben's death, Ginny's condition, and the death of her parents; Steve then prepares and administers a silicon solution injection to the girl. Ines Carri More locals are soon rushed to Dr. Reynolds' office in various stages of petrification. Help Center Contributor Zone Polls. Action, Drama, While in Vietnam, a GI promises his dying buddy that he'll take care of his motorcycle, "Baby", when he gets back home. Cathy joins them, also recognizing the fragments. Extraterrestrials traveling in high-tech flying saucers contact a scientist as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth. Universal released The Monolith Monsters on DVD as part of a boxed set called The Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection, which features 4 additional Universal feature films: The Incredible Shrinking Man, Monster on the Campus, The Mole People, and Tarantula. The fragments also begin to slowly petrify some of the inhabitants of a nearby small town. Richard Carlson, Barbara Hershey, Jenna Keiper, 9 min They're - quite literally - rocks. Juan Flabio, | | Dave's girlfriend, teacher Cathy Barrett (Lola Albright), takes her students on a desert field trip; young Ginny Simpson (Linda Scheley) pockets a piece of the black meteorite rock, later washing it in a large tub outside her family's farmhouse. John Britt, 92 min Dr. Reynolds explains that research indicates that one possible function of silicon in the human body is to maintain human tissue flexibility. 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. Ron Perlman, | This FAQ is empty. | Gualtiero Negrini 8,549 71,320 A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants. Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Roxanna Dunlop Carol Lynley, Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Bhoomika Chawla, $0.02M, 73 min Adventure, Comedy, Romance. Aliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war. Esther Canata, 100 min Announced, The Year is 2200. | A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime. More experiments occur by the hour as the citizens in this small California desert town try to figure out what and why this is happening. Arianna Afsar, 82 min Taryn Manning, 30 min DeAnna Hawkins, Stars: Suziey Block, 104 min Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth. Stars: Carl Colpaert | | Director: $83.08M, PG-13 A weekly documentary in which two Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk urban legends by directly testing them. Doug Locke, 20 min The DVD transfer is very good, too. Floyd Harden, A woman wakes up one morning alone in the desert with no memory and blood on her hands. Stars: At the hospital, Ginny finally revives, and Dave deduces that something in the silicon solution will check the fragments' growth. Human blood is no longer fit for consumption as the vampire race slowly becomes extinct. An emergency erupts when a storm arrives and all the rain begins to cause those rocks (monoliths) to rise to huge proportions, fall, break up and then rise again and destroy everything in its path. Keith Roenke, Meteor, the shooting stars on which so many earthly wishes have been born! Short, Drama. Drama, A taxi driver (Naveen Andrews) picks up a fare (Barbara Hershey) in Manhattan. Star: | Jake Lyall, 75 min | Garance Mallard, Stars: Morris Dam, Azusa, California, USA 9 of 9 found this interesting Interesting? Society has rebuilt itself upon a barren land of dust and debris. Jason Connery Anthony Sherritt, A strange black meteor crashes near the town of San Angelo and litters the countryside with fragments. Connor Williams, Unrated 97 min | Susie Meister, Vin Diesel, | | Looking for something to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Castro, Danielle Leksich An alcoholic drifter must battle withdrawal and psychotic rednecks after he becomes the target of a deranged sporting event. Directors: In a vast, open desert landscape, two strangers with troubled pasts collide. Director: Stars: Osa Wallander, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA (town) 6 of 6 found … 90 min Dan reveals to the group that he had finally reached the governor who told him not to blow up the dam, pauses, and adds unless Dave was absolutely certain of success. Rafa Garcia | 96 min Martin returns to the wrecked office with Dave where he recognizes the large fragments as the same type of black rock Ben had been examining. | | With little time left, and the telephone and electricity cut off, the monoliths continue to multiply and advance, soaking up water from the rain-soaked soil. A strange black meteor crashes near the town of San Angelo and litters the countryside with fragments. Cam Gigandet, Robert Lee, Stars: Who left him there? Time Winters, Star: Director: Nicole Arianna Fox, R Blake Lively, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi. | | That night, a strong wind blows over a full water container onto the black rock, starting a chemical reaction. Horror, A group of university students in the New Mexico desert unearth an ancient mummy, on which one of the students performs a secret, primeval blood ritual. | Director: David Arquette, Most of the exteriors of downtown San Angelo were shot on Universal's back lot, particularly Courthouse Square. Stars: | Action, Thriller. Lane Townsend, A troubled young man falls prey to sinister forces after he arrives in the desert to care for his dying uncle, while becoming ensnared in a decades old mystery. Richter Action, Thriller. A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely. Robert Fuller, | $1.10M, PG-13 Charles Pinion $29.14M, PG-13 | Dina Merrill, Drama, History, Thriller. | Gross: | Jessey James-Taylor, 7 min Stars: AJ Meijer, Not Rated Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi. Naveen Andrews, | It's always good to see the gorgeous Albright in her younger days: a classic beauty. John Sherwood | Director: Director: | Tanner Perkins 114 min Gary Robert Stars: | Dave quickly realizes that the monoliths' advancing path will take them directly through San Angelo, and from there the monoliths could spread and possibly threaten all life on Earth. Ty Burrell, R Carly Pope, 121 min Thaine H. Allison Jr., | Born Today Most Popular Celebs Most Popular Celebs Celebrity News. Kathryn Wahl, She goes with the two men to the Simpson farm; they find the farmhouse in ruins under a large pile of black rocks and Ginny's parents dead. No. Marvin J. Chomsky Aidan Bristow, Joe Dietsch, While the pair drive across the country, the ... See full summary », Director: 23,705 Kellough . Robert Patrick, Arthur deduces that the meteorite's atomic structure has been radically altered by the intense heat of atmospheric friction. | Gross: Tony Russel, 81 min | William Bonner, R Philip J. Jones The girl is saved as they experiment and find out how to cure her. Suneel, Action, Drama, Fantasy Nestor Paiva, Votes: $116.60M, PG-13 Will Carcedo, Yes No. Director: Jenna Enns, Not Rated | Stars: Comedy. Horror, Sci-Fi. What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. Jenny Appel, Dave and Arthur struggle to find the correct formula; they finally realize the monoliths can be stopped with a simple saline solution, a part of Steve's silicon formula. $35.85M, PG-13 Stars: Director: | David Vyle Levy Marcin Kowalczyk, Jay Woelfel Kevin P. Farley, Not Rated | For fans of 50s science fiction cinema, enthusiastically recommended”.[4]. Knowing they must halt the monoliths at the canyon's edge, Dave acts without waiting for the governor's approval and the dynamite is detonated. It wasn't frightening but it succeeded in keeping my interest, which was no mean feat considering the outrageous storyline.I guess "pretty good" would be the best description of everything here: the acting, the characters, the special-effects and the story. A giant, radioactive octopus rises from the Philippine Trench to terrorize the North American Pacific Coast. 103 min Returning to the desert, Dave and Arthur trace the fragments to the crashed meteor. Little do they know one of the other ... See full summary », Director: 87 min He later reports that Ginny is slowly turning to stone; her only hope lies with identifying the black rock within eight hours. John Lithgow, Jim Carlson, Dan Aho, 22 min | Short, Action, Crime. Most of the exteriors of downtown San Angelo were shot on Universal's back lot, particularly Courthouse Square. Because the dam is private property, however, Dan attempts to contact the governor for permission to blow up the dam. Emmett J Scanlan. Kevin M. Brennan, Director: Kodi Smit-McPhee, | Marty Hrejsa, A hangman, a prostitute, a thief and a drunk try to make some sense out of the revelation that they are the last four people on earth. Cuba Gooding Jr., Melissa Coppola, Director: Back at the Simpson farm, both men notice a discoloration in the ground: The black rock is draining something from everything it touches, including people.