What a waste of my time!!!

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Excellent, a Must See

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

An interesting but rather odd and contrived story. Yes it's nice to see a serious attempt at authentic science. But it really fails rather badly at that -- even though it has the aura of authenticity.Why did the writers of the movie feel it was necessary to go to Canada? Did audiences of the time accept the oddly dressed workers as Canadians? They were, of course, Germans acting in a movie from 1934. As I write this in 2018, I wonder if other new viewers had the same thought as me -- they are going 1700 feet underground along the coast of Nova Scotia? My God -- it's Oak Island!!

Classic low-budget sci-fi thriller from the early 50s about a new element created through radiation that threatens the Earth's very existence. About a third of the movie is stock footage, including scenes from a very old German sci-fi flick, GOLD. The movie moves along at a fairly rapid pace, and scientific investigator Richard Carlson and partner King Donovan give it a bit of class. The monster is basically invisible, so any kids watching this back in the day must have been sorely disappointed. For adults, it serves as a Cold War-era cautionary tale. Check out the cars; they are hideous and hysterical at the same time. Filmmaker Ivan Tors made the wonderful GOG a year after this, and did plenty of TV work.

What a nice walk down memory lane! No saggy drawers or F bombs. If you like your sci-fi a little cheesy with some belly laughs, this film is perfect! The only thing that comes to mind that would have made this better would have been a cameo by Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi! This is NOT Oscar stuff here but it is enjoyable!!! There's lots of lightning and scientific jargon that makes you go Huh????? You also have the pretty young lady and all the crazy Doc Brown like scientists running around. This almost has a Frankenstein feeling to it. I watched this on TCM. It's nice there are still opportunities to see these movies made during the atomic/radiation scare days of the 50's. Pop the popcorn and sit back and relax and enjoy the corny special effects!

What your eyes don't see; your mind will. Curt Siodmak directs his own screenplay. Its stimulating and suspenseful; you may even think high brow, but low-key. If you're waiting to see a monster; sorry. Richard Carlson plays Dr. Jeffrey Stewart, who experiments with radioactive isotopes; things get a little out of hand and a novel monster is accidentally created. It consumes energy that turns into deadly amounts of radiation that it of course emits. The monster is identified by the magnetic field that surrounds it. Dr. Stewart calculates that the monster will double its size every 12 hours. With his associate Dan Forbes(King Donovan), Stewart goes on a monster hunt to protect the public from any major magnetic problems. Other players: Jean Byron, Leonard Mudie, Harry Ellerbe, Leo Britt and Kathleen Freeman. THE MAGNETIC MONSTER is an Ivan Tors production well worth watching.