The Magnetic Monster

"Terror swoops through the heart of a city in the dead of night!"

Feb 18 1953 Approved 1h 16m
Horror, Sci-Fi

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.

Plot

Working for O.S.I., the Office of Scientific Investigation, A-Man agent Jeffrey Stewart and his partner Dan Forbes are sent to a local hardware store where they find a strong magnetic field has magnetized every metal item in the store. Investigating further, they eventually trace the source of the magnetism to an airborn flight carrying scientist Howard Denker, now dying of radiation poisoning, who has carted on board with him a new radioactive element which he has bombarded with alpha particles for 200 hours. The element, dubbed 'serranium' grows geometrically by creating matter out of energy which it absorbs from metallic objects surrounding it. Stewart calculates that if the substance is not destroyed soon that within 24 hours or so it will have grown large enough to throw Earth out of its orbit.

Written by

Curt Siodmak, Ivan Tors

Directed by

Curt Siodmak, Herbert L. Strock

Cast

Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Jean Byron

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Ivan Tors Productions

Languages

English

Awards

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Trailers
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