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The Magnetic Monster
1953 · Film · 76 min
Directed by Curt Siodmak
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. (The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.)
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The impressive visual effects from the climax of Gold were used in the last part of the film The Magnetic Monster. When I saw that film, I thought it was bizarre how the effects suddenly got so much fancier. I eventually learned they had reused the Gold footage.