Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Linkshoch Wonderful Movie

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Hitchcoc This is very good 1950's science fiction. At the center is Curt Siodmak, a pretty good writer who involves us in a tale where the use of a particle accelerator causes magnetism to go crazy. It results in implosions that could eventually end all life on earth. It's up to Richard Carlson and King Donovan, staples in the movie genre of the time, to come up with a solution. This is post atom bomb time and we are treated to a lot of moralizing about life and its preciousness. This could have gotten out of hand but is reined in pretty well. I thought the science was reasonable and the acting quite good. Stereotyping was kept to a minimum and allowed the principles to do their thing. Very good scene in an appliance store at the beginning.

bkoganbing The Magnetic Monster is an earnest, but essentially below average science fiction film from the paranoid Fifties. In fact it's not a living creature at all.It is in fact a new atomic element, we started getting a few them as a result of the Manhattan Project back in the day. And here was the problem I had with the film. What kind of a nuclear scientist walks off with a piece of some radioactive stuff with apparently no security precautions. Yet this is what we're asked to believe that Leonard Mudie went and did. They locate him on a flight with a leadlined briefcase with the stuff.What to do with it? In sober documentary fashion scientists Richard Carlson and King Donovan try to stop this thing from growing. When it's on a feeding cycle it feasts on all things metallic, magnetizing them in the process. Carlson has an additional problem, wife Jean Byron is expecting and the world may get destroyed before Carlson and Byron contribute to the population.It's a sincere film and the idea of a monster that's not animal or vegetable, but radioactive mineral is appealing to science fiction intellect. But I could not wrap myself around the concept of Leonard Mudie just walking off with the stuff to do some homework with.

Michael O'Keefe What your eyes don't see; your mind will. Curt Siodmak directs his own screenplay. Its stimulating and suspenseful; you may even think high brow, but low-key. If you're waiting to see a monster; sorry. Richard Carlson plays Dr. Jeffrey Stewart, who experiments with radioactive isotopes; things get a little out of hand and a novel monster is accidentally created. It consumes energy that turns into deadly amounts of radiation that it of course emits. The monster is identified by the magnetic field that surrounds it. Dr. Stewart calculates that the monster will double its size every 12 hours. With his associate Dan Forbes(King Donovan), Stewart goes on a monster hunt to protect the public from any major magnetic problems. Other players: Jean Byron, Leonard Mudie, Harry Ellerbe, Leo Britt and Kathleen Freeman. THE MAGNETIC MONSTER is an Ivan Tors production well worth watching.

drystyx Most science fiction from the 1950s are very artistic, well directed, and entertaining.This one flails a bit more, but it does so in an effort to be low key. They don't look to use a big budget for effects, but still manage to show their story reasonably well.The story is the problem here, however. It never really is clear just what the scientists are talking about. They seem to want to make some very deep philosophical point, but that is where the flailing comes in. Each time they begin to try to explain what the microscopic magnetic atomic monster is doing, they digress into a confusing ideology that no one understands.The idea of the microscopic monster, the unseen force left to the imagination, works well enough. The characters do, too. It just fails on the story level enough to make merely a mediocre film, not nearly as good as most monster films from the fifties.