Monster on the Campus

Monster on the Campus

Co-ed beauty captive of man-monster! Campus terror! Students victims of terror-beast!

1958 · 77 min · ★ 6.1 · Horror, Science Fiction

A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelacanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man.

Directed by Jack Arnold · Written by David Duncan

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