Mr Myers is back once again with another 50s B creature fest.... The Monster that challenged the world. After an earthquake shakes up Southern California it awakens a nest of monsters lurking in the Salton Sea. These bloodthirsty sea snails begin to gobble up anyone who sets foot in the water. But when the creatures move on to land in search of wider hunting grounds, they launch a reign of terror that threatens to spread across the whole country. The Monster that challenged the world is a variant on the 1950s atomic monster movie. It competently, if unremarkably, shuffles the basic tropes established by the beast from 20,000 fathoms (1953) and Them! (1954). By now, other atomic monster movies had started exhausting most of the giant-sized possibilities offered by the animal and insect kingdom and the film’s idea of a giant mollusc seems rather insipid. The film is enjoyable enough, but it is rather daft in comparison to the other classic 50s films the creature designs themselves are rather unique in the visual sense but are rather limited due to the times technology, but in response to this some of the films more suspenseful scenes were made without any effects needed, but rather given the impression. Overall from those who grew up with the atomic age creature fests, this film is rather of lower expectations compared to other films that preceded it and exceeded it, but it still can be seen as a Sunday night B movie. Final verdict is a 5/10 ~Mr Myers #horrormoviesreviews #movietime🎥 #moviereviews #50smovies #50monsters #themonsterthatchallengedtheworld #classicbmovies https://www.instagram.com/thenightmorgue/p/CY1ejtNMnvH/?utm_medium=tumblr
