The Magnetic Monster
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
Sombre, kinetic, measured atomic-age / science, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · The Magnetic Monster (1953) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive atomic-age · science · b-movie entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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