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A strange creature runs amuck on a quiet campus. No doubt not the best from director Jack Arnold, but very watchable. A college professor (Arthur Franz) nicks his hand on the teeth of a prehistoric fish and turns into a murderous man/beast.
In "Monster on the Campus", the excellent character actor Arthur Franz plays Professor Donald Blake, who receives an interesting package one day. His new prize is a coelacanth, a hideous prehistoric fish unchanged for centuries while other species have evolved.
Film Reviews. 0. Director: Jack Arnold. Cast: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt. Certificate: PG. By Roger Crow. For as long as there are colleges and monsters there will be the ‘monster at college’ movie.
- Jack Arnold
- PG
- Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt
With that in mind, Jack Arnold's hijacking of the Wolf Man plot onto a campus terror tale needs all his talent for making the incredible seem possible: giant dragonflies and million-year-old fish...
Monster on the Campus (1958) review. Director: Jack Arnold. Starring: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters, Troy Donahue, Phil Harvey, Helen Westcott, Alexander Lockwood, Whit Bissell, Ross Elliott, Eddie Parker
- Jack Arnold
- 5 (from 1 vote)
- Horror, Science Fiction
- 1958
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelecanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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Monster on the Campus: Directed by Jack Arnold. With Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters. The blood of a primitive fish exposed to gamma rays causes a benign research professor to regress to an ape-like, bloodthirsty prehistoric hominid.
