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The Monolith Monsters (1957) is a black and white science fiction film that is 77 minutes long. It was produced by Universal-International Pictures Inc. and distributed by Universal Pictures Co. Inc.

Synopsis

A meteor crashes near a small town in the American desert southwest. One of a pair of geologists finds a piece of it in a roadway and, not recognizing the mineral, takes it back to their laboratory to study. In the morning, his partner finds the lab wrecked and the man himself petrified, completely drained of fluid. It is eventually determined that the substance composing the meteor is susceptible to water: if wetted, it grows into black, crystal-like shafts which absorb all available liquid nearby, including from any animals or humans who come in contact with it. Once all water is absorbed and grown to its fullest possible height, the shaft becomes dormant, but may easily collapse and shatter, creating and scattering a host of "seeds" waiting to grow entire new shafts at the next show of water. The original meteor has also shattered all about the area where it crashed. The big problem for the town is, a rain storm is on the way...

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