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The Monster that Challenged the World

(1957)

Giant sea snails turn up after an earthquake and start sucking everybody's body fluids out. (I wonder if that includes, like, piss and stuff? Gross.) You wouldn't think a giant snail would be able to sneak up on anybody, but they manage to ice quite a few people before the cops and military guys finally settle their hash. The only giant snail left is one they found earlier and put in suspended animation or something in this lab, but since they don't lock the door and let kids play in there (nice security, fuckholes), this obnoxious little girl turns the heat up and the snail wakes up and traps her and her MILF mom in a closet. I was hoping it would bust in there and suck that fucking brat dry, but unfortunately the main guy barges in and since there just happens to be a huge axe hanging right there on the wall he attacks the snail with a fire extinguisher. The snail comes after him instead but before it can kill him some guys with rifles show up and add that fucker to the extinct species list once and for all. Tough break, monster that challenged the world.

The monsters in this movie looked fairly cool (considering they're giant snails and that's completely retarded), but the most interesting thing to me was the morgue guy who kept his lunch cold in one of the morgue drawers. Morgue guys in the movies always eat at work because that's so hilarious and original, but I never saw someone do it in a flick this old before. I wonder if this was the first movie to ever use that bit, because if it is I guess that would make it groundbreaking or whatever.