The Killer Shrews
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Movie Reviews of The Killer Shrews
Movie Review: Whaddaya Get When You Cross A Dust Mop, A Dog, and a Sabertooth Cat?
Summary: 4 Stars
this cult classic, that's what!!! I remember having nightmares after watching this cheesefest as a kid, and the weird thing was I dreamed it in black-and-white.
Despite the obvious fact they used dogs covered with something resembling oversized dust mops and godawful phoney fangs that would make any respectable sabertooth cat bust a gut laughing, this hokey B-movie is actually quite good. Alright, forget the hammy acting too, because this ain't Oscar material gentle readers, it's pure entertainment!
If you don't take this film too seriously or try to analyze it, you'll probably find yourself being absorbed by this tale of survival. The premise is simple: escape from an island overun with giant, hungry dogs...er-ah shrews without winding up on the food chain. Of course several people DO wind up being shredded, but that's half the fun, the other half is watching how the remaining survivors get off the island, thanks in part to our McGyver-like hero, played by James Best who would later go on to play Roscoe P. Coltrane on the 70's hit 'Dukes Of Hazzard'. Man, I hated that show, now I wish he never made it off the island!
Movie Review: Dogs in shrew suits
Summary: 4 Stars
I first saw this in the movies. And let me tell you this is really spooky for kids (or used to be.)
We find our selves on an island where a hand full of visitors, including us, find eerie from the beginning. Of course, from the title we are anticipating "you know whats" at any time. However, the visitors to this island have no idea what they are awaits them.
An experiment with the intent of correcting overpopulation has gone awry, et voilà killer shrews. These ravenous creatures must eat many times their weight daily to keep from starving. Moreover, I must say that Ingrid Goude (Miss Universe Sweden 1956) would make a tasty snack (not that I notices at the movies.)
Well the people are protected by adobe (mud) walls from the poisonous fanged carnivores (did I mention the fangs are poisonous?)
Wait, it's RAINING!
The Taming of the Shrew
Movie Review: Finally, SHREWS get their DUE!
Summary: 4 Stars
When the world's smallest mammalian carnivore, the diminutive shrew, grows to monstrous proportions on a remote island the result is a real hoot: Dogs were used to double as the shrews and outfitted with rubber masks and funny faux fur coats. The ferocious, wooly critters have to eat twice their body weight everyday just to survive... so how ever will the small group of people stranded on the island avoid becoming shrew-snacks?
Hilarious, so-bad-it's-good schlock classic.
Staci Layne Wilson
Movie Review: One of the Worst
Summary: 4 Stars
Watched this the same day as Plan 9 From Outer Space. It's almost a dead heat as to which one is worse. Plan Nine is so bad that there shouldn't be any real competition, except for maybe Robot Monster, but this is at least in the running. Wow. what an afternoon. I felt so bad, so used, that I had to watch an Abbott and Costello movie afterward. then I felt better.Movie Review: A classic bad movie that doesn't stack up to PLAN NINE
Summary: 3 Stars
No question, people watch this movie to enjoy the "badness." And it is bad. A small group of people stranded on a tropical island (where there is a lab conducting suspiciously silly experiments with Shrews) because of a Hurricane must fend off marauding gigantic Shrews. Just that basic idea, to say nothing of the title, are enough to start giggles.
I particularly liked the fact that although there was a horrible hurricane, one can scarcely sees the trees blowing in the wind or detect any bobbing of the small boat in the bay. I guess we just have to take their word for it. Perhaps it was a Category "Negative 5" hurricane.
The movie mostly consists of ridiculously stilted dialogue, much of it with the characters crowded around a very flimsy looking bar. We don't see much of the scientific facilities. Guess all these guys like to do is drink. Our hero makes eyes at the heroine, the daughter of the scientist, and she responds with incredible blankness. Frankly, the acting is barely noticeable. No one really manages a single believable moment. The reason PLAN NINE or ROBOT MONSTER are such hoots is because the "acting" is insanely unpredictable and laughable. Everyone in those films is fully committed to their "art"...they just don't have any actual skills. In SHREWS, I was tempted to skip ahead frequently...hoping for some KILLER SHREWS.
When they come...dogs in furry costumes...they are laughable and not terribly scary looking. Yes, I'm sure they could deliver a nasty bite, but they also look like a quick kick to the head would kill them. Lucky for the shrews, no one on the island is capable of even aiming a gun, much less hitting a shrew. The characters are constantly firing guns that are obviously directed no where near the villians.
It has its moments of camp, and its short, but I can't wholeheartedly recommend the movie for the bad-movie buff. I CERTAINLY can't recommend it to someone actually looking to have a good time!