Monster of the #3021

Updated on April 30, 2020 By Ken Begg 11 Comments

While Forrest Tucker was in England to make The Crawling Eye, he also starred in Cosmic Monsters, aka The Strange World of Planet X. It’s a typically all over the map ’50s sci-fi film. Being British, it’s also a bit nastier than you’d expect a film from that era to be. Available on a soft but watchable print on YouTube.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Saw this one a while ago, and don’t remember a lot of it…of course, I don’t remember a lot of last week, so–

  • Gamera977

    Is the monster supposed to be a spider? Looks like a giant cricket in the photo to me!

  • Ericb

    Whatever it is the woman seems to be rather amused by it.

  • Ericb

    If you look closely at the upper right corner you can see a spider looming in the background looking like it’s about to pounce on the cricket and probably saving the lady as an unintended consequence.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I remember the scene where we see a giant bug chewing the face off of some poor British soldier. That was nasty.

  • The Rev.

    I saw this a few years ago and that’s about all I remember, but man that was brutal. Especially the loud crunching noise that accompanied the act. It was quite a surprise.

  • The Rev.

    There are various giant bugs running around the movie, and at least one spider. I think that’s a roach in the picture.

  • Eric Hinkle

    British SF horror was usually pretty grisly for the time. Remember the decapitated corpses in ‘The Crawling Eye’ or the melting hospital tech in ‘X the Unknown’?

  • The Rev.

    That’s very true.

  • Wade Harrell

    It’s an American cockroach. Slightly bigger than in real life!

  • Wade Harrell

    By that I mean it’s the actual insect, not a prop or anything.