The Amazing Colossal Man
“Growing...! Growing...! Growing...! To a Giant! to a Monster! When will it stop?”
Science Fiction
Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast and although he sustains burns over 90% of his body, he survives. Then he begins to grow, but as he grows he starts losing his mind. By the time he stops he is 50 ft tall, insane and is on the rampage.
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A thrilling, yet campy, descent into atomic-age paranoia. Witness a man's terrifying transformation and rampage, fueled by radiation and escalating madness. It's a classic B-movie spectacle that captures the era's anxieties with unsettling, larger-than-life consequences.
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