Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Horrorfest 2019: Monster on the Campus


Directed by Jack Arnold, written by David Duncan
Starring Arthur Franz, Joanna Cook Moore, Nancy Walters and Troy Donahue
1958

A university science professor accidentally discovers a formula that causes creatures to regress to their more primitive states. Infected with the formula himself, he devolves into a caveman creature and is responsible for a string of murders around campus, without knowing it.

This is another Jack Arnold joint, although it’s more of a bore than his best work. There are some striking moments, however, including one in which a dragonfly grows to monstrous size and attacks our heroes. The campus setting is novel for a sci-fi/horror film like this, but ultimately isn’t exploited much as this just becomes another by-numbers monster flick.

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