Monster on the Campus

Monster on the Campus
Theatrical release poster
by Reynold Brown
Directed byJack Arnold
Written byDavid Duncan
Produced byJoseph Gershenson
StarringArthur Franz
Joanna Cook Moore
Nancy Walters
Troy Donahue
Whit Bissell
CinematographyRussell Metty
Edited byTed J. Kent
Distributed byUniversal-International
Release dates
  • December 17, 1958 (1958-12-17) (United States)

  • May 1, 1959 (1959-05-01) (Finland)
Running time
77 min
LanguageEnglish

Monster on the Campus (a.k.a. Monster in the Night[1] and Stranger on the Campus) is a 1958 American black-and-white science fiction/horror film from Universal-International, produced by Joseph Gershenson, directed by Jack Arnold, from a script by David Duncan,[2][3] that stars Arthur Franz, Joanna Cook Moore, Nancy Walters, Troy Donahue, and Whit Bissell. The film was theatrically released as a double feature with the British horror film Blood of the Vampire.

The film's storyline tells of a university science professor who accidentally comes into contact with the irradiated blood of a coelacanth, which causes him to "regress" to being a primitive caveman.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference AFI staff 2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Doherty 2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "'Vampire' in Attack Today" Los Angeles Times 22 Oct 1958: B8.

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