The Magnetic Monster

1953

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi

11
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 32% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 2363 2.4K

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Plot summary

The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.

Director

Curt Siodmak Photo
Curt Siodmak

Top cast

William 'Billy' Benedict Photo
William 'Billy' Benedict as Albert
Charles Williams Photo
Charles Williams as Cabbie
Leonard Mudie Photo
Leonard Mudie as Howard Denker
Richard Carlson Photo
Richard Carlson as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
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533.86 MB
1280*932
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 16 min
Seeds 2
1.13 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 16 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 5 / 10

Richard Carlson struggles to inject much life into

Richard Carlson struggles to inject much life into this rather dry sci-fi adventure. He and his scientist colleague "Dan" (King Donovan) are called into investigate mysterious goings on in a small town where just about everything metallic appears to have become magnetised. Bizarre, eh? What's causing it? Well that might have something to do with poorly scientist "Denker" (Leonard Mudie) who is travelling on an aircraft with a briefcase containing an highly toxic, radioactive, element that absorbs energy from adjacent metallic objects allowing it to expand exponentially. It's soon down to our intrepid duo to come up with a way of destroying it before it becomes huge enough to destabilise the Earth's orbit. This has one big problem for me - it has no object or creature for me to focus on as the danger. The film consists of loads and loads of dialogue, a bit of romance from Carlson and his wife "Connie" (Jean Byron) but until the last ten minutes, nowhere near enough actual action to keep the momentum going for what seemed like an over-long seventy-five minutes of haring about and chatter.
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Reviewed by chris_gaskin123 7 / 10

Interesting and different 50's sci-fi

The Magnetic Monster was another movie I'd been after for years and recently obtained a copy on E-bay.

Nuclear scientists and physicists (The A-Men) are called in when all the metal appliances in an electrical store suddenly become magnetic. They discover this is being caused by a scientist who has invented a new element. But this new element absorbs energy, expanding every 11-12 hours and the A-Men have to find a solution of stopping it before it is too late...

This is different to a lot of 1950's sci-fies, no giant monsters or aliens.

The cast includes sci-fi regular Richard Carlson (It Came From Outer Space, Creature From the Black Lagoon), King Donovan (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and Jean Byron (Invisible Invaders).

I quite enjoyed watching The Magnetic Monster, recommended.

Rating: 3 stars out of 5.

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