Movies like The Monolith Monsters (1957)
The best movies like The Monolith Monsters (1957) are Tarantula (1955), Them! (1954) and Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957). If The Monolith Monsters hooked you with its horror and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)7.5/10 from 1,266 votes
- NewestThe Wasp Woman (1959)Released 1959
Tarantula (1955)
A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle and humans in increasingly large quantities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThem! (1954)
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAttack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt Came from Outer Space (1953)
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Black Scorpion (1957)
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Giant Behemoth (1959)
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like this20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save Colonel Robert Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Man from Planet X (1951)
While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCreature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisReturn of the Fly (1959)
Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRevenge of the Creature (1955)
In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMonster on the Campus (1958)
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelacanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Blob (1958)
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Magnetic Monster (1953)
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.)
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Thing from Another World (1951)
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Deadly Mantis (1957)
When a melting iceberg releases a prehistoric giant praying mantis, a palaeontologist works alongside the military to kill it after it attacks scientific outposts on its way to Washington and New York.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Wasp Woman (1959)
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Brain from Planet Arous (1957)
A malevolent alien brain, bent on world domination, takes over the body of an atomic scientist, while a 'good' alien brain inhabits the body of the scientist's dog and waits for an opportunity to defeat the evil brain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisQuatermass 2 (1957)
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
Scientists surgically transform the Creature into an air-breather, but being able to live on land is not enough to make him comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on anyone who comes near as he desperately tries to return to the deep-water world where he truly belongs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisEarth vs. the Spider (1958)
Teenagers from a small town and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider, living in a cave nearby and getting hungry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisFiend Without a Face (1958)
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Fly (1958)
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAttack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
When an abused wife grows to giant size following an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her philandering husband with revenge on her mind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Monolith Monsters?
The closest matches to The Monolith Monsters are Tarantula (1955), Them! (1954) and Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Monolith Monsters?
People who watched The Monolith Monsters most often go on to Tarantula (1955), Them! (1954) and Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Monolith Monsters?
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), rated 7.5/10 by 1,266 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Monolith Monsters?
The Wasp Woman (1959) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Monolith Monsters?
Yes: Tarantula (1955), Them! (1954) and Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957).
How are movies similar to The Monolith Monsters chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Monolith Monsters, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.