The Strange World of Planet X (1958)A friendly visitor from outer space warns against conducting experiments with the Earth's magnetic field, that could mutate insects into giant monsters. Director:Gilbert Gunn |
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The Strange World of Planet X (1958)A friendly visitor from outer space warns against conducting experiments with the Earth's magnetic field, that could mutate insects into giant monsters. Director:Gilbert Gunn |
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Gil Graham
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Michele Dupont
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Martin Benson | ... |
Smith
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Wyndham Goldie | ... |
Brigadier Cartwright
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Alec Mango | ... |
Dr. Laird
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Hugh Latimer | ... |
Jimmy Murray
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Geoffrey Chater | ... |
Gerard Wilson
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Patricia Sinclair | ... |
Helen Forsyth
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Dandy Nichols | ... |
Mrs. Tucker
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Richard Warner | ... |
Insp. Burns
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Hilda Fenemore | ... |
Mrs. Hale
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Susan Redway | ... |
Jane Hale
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At a small, rural British lab, monomaniac Dr. Laird and his staff create ultra-intense magnetic fields. Inexplicably, the apparatus seems to be affecting distant objects, and to be drawing "extra power" from...somewhere. One night, after a "freak" storm, strange and deadly things start happening in Bryerly Woods, and a strange man from "a long way off" appears in the district...concerned about Laird's pulling down disaster from the skies. Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
I saw this movie once - over 40 years ago - and I still remember it very well. Even as a kid, very few movie really scared me, but this one did. The resident mad scientist does something that let in lots of bad cosmic rays and the local insects become giants. The school is a one room affair set in the middle of a forest. The giant insects attack the school trapping the teacher & the kids. Most horror movie monsters looked hokey - but the monsters in this were extreme close-ups of real insects. It wasn't until Alien that I saw a movie monster as scary as those giant bugs.