Cosmic Monsters

The Strange World of Planet X (1958)
Director: Gilbert Gunn
Tagline: « Shock by incredible shock this ravaging death overruns the earth…menacing mankind with overwhelming chaos! »
Actors:
Gil Graham
Michele Dupont
Dr. Laird
Brigadier Cartwright
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
Rating:  vote average (1’529 votes)
Quote: « Brig. General Cartwright: There's no one else available to operate this computer of yours. » « Dr. Laird: But a… woman? This is preposterous. This is highly skilled work! »
Runtime:75 minutes
Plots: A friendly visitor from outer space warns against conducting experiments with the Earth’s magnetic field, that could mutate insects into giant monsters. 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. In a small English village, Dr. Laird and his assistants Gil Graham and Michele Dupont are conducting experiments with magnetic fields. The results may have military applications as his equipment can rearrange molecules to make solid metal brittle or stiff metal pliable. Gil notices that the magnetic and affecting the village but Baird won’t stop his tests. A mysterious stranger, known simply as Mr. Smith, assists them in solving several mysteries, including a series of attacks in a public park. Their greatest challenge is the sudden appearance of giant insects, bugs that have mutated as a result of the experiments.

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