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Monster on the Campus
Monsteronthecampus
Monster on the Campus DVD cover artwork by Reynold Brown
Directed by Jack Arnold
Produced by Joseph Gershenson
Written by David Duncan
Starring Arthur Franz
Joanna Cook Moore
Nancy Walters
Cinematography Russell Metty
Editing by Ted J. Kent
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) December 17, 1958 (1958-12-17) (United States)
May 1, 1959 (1959-05-01) (Finland)
Running time 77 min
Language English

Monster on the Campus (Monster in the Night and Stranger on the Campus) is a 1958 American science fiction/horror film, released by Universal Pictures. The film was the last of Universal's science fiction monster films released before Island of Terror (1966).

Monster on the Campus was directed by Jack Arnold and from a script by David Duncan.

Plot[]

Professor Donald Blake (Arthur Franz) acquires a newly-discovered coelacanth. He begins to examine the find and is exposed to its irradiated blood. This turns him into a murderous Neanderthal monster that terrorizes the campus. Troy Donahue appears as a college student, a speaking part.

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