Thanks for the memories!

Best movie ever!

Beautiful, moving film.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

I caught this as an after-school TV movie back in the early 1960s. I was captivated by the idea of these lifeless yet dynamic "invaders". Even today the special effects are still not at all bad and the concept of a rock being mindlessly malevolent is still intriguing.The hunky Grant Williams and stunning Lola Albright make a wonderful protagonist couple that still make me want to root for them even today. The older scientist and newspaper owner add some wisdom and innovation to the exigent problems to be addressed and there is some honest-to-gosh tension that is hard to find in some of these B-grade movies.I waited decades before this became available on VHS and was more than happy to shell out the money for it and have subsequently obtained the DVD as well. I get this out at least once a year on a slow Saturday afternoon and relive the kids matinée session of an era long past.Forget about the science, this is just a great time.

It is amazing that you can make a movie with so little and the movie could turn up decent. The movie has no great budget but the idea behind it it's so great and simple. Meteors that crushed to earth and they threaten it! Rocks that broke in thousands of small parts and they multiply with water! The quit life of a small graphic town want be the same again. People's bodies turn into rock and the only ones who can help is the geologists. The biggest enemy now is rain! Rain that gives life, now threatens this little town. Rain will help the rocks to grow and everything around the rock will seize to exist. In general this is pretty much a typical scifi movie. We have the girl, the scientist, love, a big threat by a strange unknown enemy and we are waiting for science to find a solution and save the day. The acting is OK and the scenario is great! The movie it's really entertaining and for those of you who love science fiction, I think you will enjoy it too.

John Sherwood directed this surprisingly good science fiction story set in the Southwestern desert community of San Angelo, where a meteor shower of rocks turn some people to stone upon contact, but even worse, when they come into contact with water, start to grow into the title menace, which threaten to destroy the town, then engulf the world. Grant Williams and Lola Albright play the romantic leads. Well-directed and imaginative, with a most original and unusual threat working quite well here. The monolith rocks are both imposing and striking, and the model work used to bring them to "life" is excellent. A little-known thriller awaiting rediscovery.

This is really quite well done. The musical score is excellent as are the sound effects. The acting is quite decent throughout and the premise makes good sense. There are no monsters in the classical sense but there are monstrous things going on. The plot twists are ingenious and keep the audience guessing and the film itself doesn't outstay its welcome. I saw this as a kid and enjoyed it. As an adult there is still very much to like. I think it stands on its own merits quite well without being tethered to another film. The special effects are wonderful, by the way.Curtis Stotlar