The Scene In the Rain

The miniature effects in this film are quite good. When Dave and Professor Flanders witness the monoliths growing in the thunderstorm from a distance, it's quite possibly the most chillingly effective scene in the film. The way the spires are silhouetted against the night sky, and that rumbling noise, it really helps portray the scale, not just of the monoliths themselves, but of the threat that the main characters now facing.

In fact, everything leading to this moment, from the "Eureka!" moment of discovering water is the catalyst, to the sudden, icy dread of them realizing "Oh, crap, it's raining!" and rushing to the meteor's impact crater, is done so well it doesn't look or feel like a B-movie at all.

Maybe I'm overselling it, but it was this particular sequence which won me over and made The Monolith Monsters one of my favorite little 1950s science fiction films.

I mean, really, how many times will you look under Jabba's manboobs?