Main Cast: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters, Troy Donahue
Release Year: 1958
Country: US
Run Time: 76 minutes
Plot
In this sci-fi film, a college professor must deal with the cataclysmic consequences that ensue when a transmogrifying dragonfly bites a prehistoric fish from Madagascar. Soon after the bite, the strange fish becomes gigantic and begins passing on its new ability to morph all it comes in contact with back into their primal forms. When it bites a dog, the dog becomes a wolf. When some fish slime ends up in the professor's pipe, the professor put it to his lips, and he turns into a rampaging Neanderthal with a very large stone-axe that he freely wields around the terrified college campus. Bloody mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Bill Thomas - Costume Designer, Jack Arnold - Director, Ted Kent - Editor, Russell Metty - Cinematographer, Joseph E. Gershenson - Producer, Clifford Stine - Special Effects, David Duncan - Screenwriter
Monster on the Campus (1958) was a black and white, science fiction, horror film, released by Universal Pictures on a low budget. It was also known as Monster in the Night, and Stranger on the Campus. This film was the last of Universal's science fiction monster films released before Island of Terror (1966).
Professor Donald Blake (played by Arthur Franz) acquires a newly-discovered coelacanth. He begins to examine the find and is exposed to its irradiated blood. This turns him into a murderous Neanderthal monster that terrorizes the campus.
