Tim Holt

Audrey Dalton

Hans Conried

Barbara Darrow

Max Showalter

Harlan Warde

Gordon Jones

Mimi Gibson

Marjorie Stapp

Jody McCrea

Wallace Earl

Dennis McCarthy

Sarah Selby

Milton Parsons

Charles Tannen

Robert Benevides

John Carlyle

John Close

William Forrest

Gil Frye

Joseph Hamilton

Charles Herbert

Byron Kane

Ralph Littlefield

David McMahon

Ralph Moody

William Swan

Hal Taggart

Mack Williams

Dan Gachman

Michael Dugan

Arnold Laven

David Duncan

Heinz Roemheld

Virginia Mazzuca

Charles Althouse

Joel Moss

Pat Fielder

Arthur Gardner

Jules V. Levy

Lester White

John Faure

Kerwin Coughlin

James Dowell Vance

Rudy Butler

Augie Lohman

B. F. Remmington

Maurice Vaccarino

Paul Stader

Ted Haworth

Robert H. Crandall

Scotty Welbourne

Paul Eagler

Abe Haberman

Olga Collings

Allen Sloane

Norman Bishop

Horror

Science Fiction

The Monster That Challenged the World

Gramercy Pictures, Inc.

United Artists

United States of America

Instant TERROR......just add water!

An earthquake out in the Salton Sea awakens the creeping dread, gigantic vampire water snails are on the loose and they are hungry for human fluid!

Just about the right side of good, The Monster Who Challenge The World holds up well because of the well constructed creatures and a bit of care and attention to the boffin discussions. Far too many 50s creature features just used a basic premise of creatures obliterating mankind because they were in an odd mood, but much like The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, this picture at least takes time to give us a bit of a nature heartbeat to help us understand the methods of a mollusc, and that alone should be applauded, so we learn while we have fun so to speak. The cast ooze B-movie standards, and that is in no way a bad thing here, whilst the Catalina Island locale sequences are pretty nifty to help salt the beef as it were!

Good honest fun that isn't short on creepiness, and top marks to the makers for introducing a very ingenious creature to a truly wonderful genre. 6/10

English

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