Movies like The Monolith Monsters: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Monolith Monsters (1957) — a horror and science fiction film directed by John Sherwood — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Monolith Monsters most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like small town, california and meteor. 8 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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It Came from Outer Space 1953★ 6.3
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
Stream in India on Cultpix
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Tarantula 1955★ 6.5
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle and humans in increasingly large quantities.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Car 1977★ 6.4
Shares: Horror
The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Phase IV 1974★ 6.3
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Arrival 1996★ 6.0
Shares: Science Fiction
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
Stream in India on Movie Sphere+
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The Stepford Wives 1975★ 6.7
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Stream in India on Tubi TV
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The Blob 1958★ 6.2
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Fire in the Sky 1993★ 6.7
Shares: Science Fiction
After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes their story and his disappearance is treated as murder.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Star Kid 1997★ 6.5
Shares: Science Fiction
Shy seventh-grader Spencer Griffith's life changes when the meteor falls into local junkyard and he finds a Cybersuit - the wise and strong robot from another galaxy. Spencer puts Cybersuit on and becomes a different kind of guy
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Automata 2014★ 5.9
Shares: Science Fiction
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, MX Player
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2012 2009★ 5.9
Shares: Science Fiction
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
Stream in India on Netflix, Sony Pictures Amazon Channel
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The Day After Tomorrow 2004★ 6.6
Shares: Science Fiction
After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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65 2023★ 5.9
Shares: Science Fiction
65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, Sony Liv, Sony Pictures Amazon Channel
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Time Trap 2017★ 6.3
Shares: Science Fiction
A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Blob 1988★ 6.9
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The End of Oak Street 2026★ 7.0
Shares: Science Fiction
After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Quatermass 2 1957★ 6.4
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Stream in India on Artiflix, Plex
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Chaos Walking 2021★ 6.5
Shares: Science Fiction
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
Stream in India on Lionsgate Play, Lionsgate Play Apple TV Channel, Lionsgate Play Amazon Channel
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The Core 2003★ 5.8
Shares: Science Fiction
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 1943★ 6.2
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
After being resurrected by grave robbers, Larry Talbot searches for Dr. Frankenstein in the hopes of being cured of his lycanthropy. The mad scientist may turn out to be dead, but his monster is just waiting to be found…
Not on subscription streaming in India right now