When you think of great monster movies, your mind usually goes straight to the obvious ones. Old classics like Alien, Jaws, ...

Once you’ve seen a few monster movies, you might start to feel like you’ve seen them all, or otherwise know what to expect out of the ones you're yet to check out, but they're not all super simple.

But they weren’t all winners. In fact, quite a few ’50s monster movies were extremely rough around the edges. But, of those lesser films, some of them continue to hold a compulsively watchable charm.

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