The Monolith Monsters is a 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film from Universal-International, produced by Howard Christie and directed by John Sherwood, starring Grant Williams and Lola Albright. The film is based on a story by Jack Arnold and Robert M. Fresco, with a screenplay by Fresco and Norman Jolley.The Monolith Monsters tells the story of a large meteorite that crashes in the desert and explodes into hundreds of black fragments with strange properties.