Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolf Man are one thing, but killer alien rocks?
Meet The Monolith Monsters!
His films were gorgeously photographed, crisply edited, and marked by above-average special effects and unexpectedly smart scripts.
Apart fromGilligans Island, his post-sci-fi work has all but been forgotten today.
The same yearThe Monolith Monsterswas released, Hammer Films released Val Guests feature version of Nigel KnealesQuatermass 2.
It all boiled down to an insidious invasion plot.
They always, bless them, seemed eager to foresee theEnd of the Worldvery early in the game.
Keeps audiences on their toes.
When another, still older geologist enters the scene, he finally sees whats going on here.
And whatever it sucks the silicon from becomes, in turn, stone itself.
When it rains, this becomes a problem.
Now, when I was a kid we had these things called Moon Rocks.
The film becomes a unique hybrid of Alien Menace and Natural Disaster movie, with a Medical Thriller subplot.
Despite being extraterrestrial in origin, there is no intentionality, nothing maleficent in what the monoliths are doing.
By films end, the swirl of science, pseudoscience, psychobabble, and half-baked explanations becomes dizzying.
But therein lies the fast disappearing magic of disbelief suspension.
Irvin S. Yeaworth sThe Blobwas released the following year.
Two years later while in New York shooting some second-unit material forPillow Talk, he contracted pneumonia and died.