EDITOR’S NOTE: The Monolith Monsters was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 20, 1973 at 11:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 8, 1975 at 2:30 a.m.; Saturday, November 15, 1975 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, December 10, 1977 at 11:30 p.m.

A large meteorite crashes into the Southern California desert and explodes into hundreds of black fragments that, when exposed to water, end up growing. It also makes people petrified. What happens if you feed them after midnight?

Perhaps I’m not crazy. Both this movie and Gremlins were made at Universal and used the studio lot’s famed Courthouse Square as their on-screen town centers. They also feature William Schallert in an uncredited role.

Well, these black rocks are drawing silicon from everything, including a schoolgirl who took one on a field trip. You know what saves the day? Saline solution. You could defeat the monolith monsters and clean your contact lenses at the same time.

Playing on a double feature with Love Slaves of the Amazons, this is also the movie playing in the unhoused camp in They Live. Director John Sherwood also made The Creature Walks Among Us.

You can watch this on Tubi.