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Giant from the Unknown

Giant from the Unknown

A Hideous Monster from Beyond the Grave!

NR 1958 · 78 min · ★ 4.4 · Horror

A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former professor and the professor's pretty daughter, the scientist sets about solving the crimes and discovers the killer is an oversized 16th century conquistador, resurrected by a lightning bolt from his mountain grave.

Directed by Richard E. Cunha · Written by Frank Hart Taussig

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