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Movie Review: Man vs. Giant Mutant Ants: A Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is the ultimate giant monster vs. puny mankind epic. The best proving ground, for the quality of a movie of this type, is whether the effects stand the test of time. The effects in this movie are a marvel even today. The producers of "THEM," could have easily used forced-perspective on real ants, forcing actors to react to empty air and reducing realism. Instead, they built highly realistic giant ants which still look life-like even compared to more recent attempts in this genre, by movies with much higher budgets, like "Empire of the Ants." The pace of the movie is fast, so the watcher tends to ignore the fact that a backwoods sherrif quickly becomes a major player, even in a room with Army generals. Anyone who has ever stepped on a red anthill, knows how fierce ants can be, so how much more fierce is an ant 15 feet long. While not actually gory, this movie shows the ants carnage in vivid detail, with numerous victims and skeletons. For a movie of this type, the acting is excellent: the scene where the catatonic young girl sits up in the ambulance, upon hearing the ants in the distance, with a look of absolute horror on her face, then lays back before the adults see her reaction, is a masterpiece of acting and is so well staged. This film is a definite A+ among B movies, and I highly recommend it to any movie buffMovie Review: Mutants Ant Invasion
Summary: 5 Stars
I signed on to Amazon to see if my first favorite old movie, "Them!" had made it to DVD. The reason I thought to do this today was that I have just read a headline on Yahoo! that a giant mutant ant colony has been discovered beneath Melbourne, Australia. I went on the message board, and posted "Make me a Sergeant and gimme the booze!" just to see if anyone knew what that meant. To my suprise, a number of people responded with "I understand!" "Them!" was the first movie I can remember poring through the tv guide each week to see if it was going to be shown...I had just learned to read, by the way. I was five or six and videotapes were 20 years in the future. I love comedies, romances, dramas, epics...but if you came up to me on the street and asked me my favorite film today I'd say "Jurassic Park." I stayed up 'til 5:00 am a week or two ago to watch "Jaws" when I channel-surfed into the opening scene on TBS (with commercials!). I can't say whether "Them!", "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park" would have all three been in my top 5 if I hadn't loved the oldest of these since I was so small. Monster films are not my favorite genre. But something about the "professorial" quality of these has always drawn my interest. I'm putting the DVD of "Them!" in my Amazon cart (even though I have the videotape.) Sometimes I get nostalgic.Movie Review: Finally this 1954 scifi landmark Classic comes to DVD!!
Summary: 5 Stars
In the 1950's the world was testing A-bombs, Hydrogen Bombs, strange results were beginning to appear & Hollywoods imagination was added to the theories. The results a series of movies about radioactive mutated creatures. The first was "THEM"."THEM" (1954) is a landmark movie about giant radiation-mutated ants that gets better with age and boasts remarkable, Academy Award-nominated special effects.
Summary: Our story begins in a New Mexico desert with a shocked wandering child, destroyed general store & battered corpse full of enough formic acid to kill 20 men. The search begins to find & destroy these menacing insects. The giant mutated ants are on the move and the climatic battle is in over 700 miles of Los Angeles sewers.
An ALL-STAR cast led by James Whitmore, James Arness and Edmund Gwenn.
Special Features include; Behind the Scenes Archive footage, Montage & Operation on the Giant Ants, & film trailer.
This was the first and probably the best movie featuring the worlds & Hollywoods take on the possible results of radioactive mutation.
"THEM" in a great Black & White Standard version (Original theatrical exhibition) digitally restored presenting a very exceptional picture & sound. This sci-fi classic is worth the price of addmission so get out the popcorn and ENJOY!!
Movie Review: One of the greatest Sci-fi movies of all time!
Summary: 5 Stars
It seems during the first test of the atomic bomb in 1954 in New Mexico, the radioation has affected the blood of Ants mutating them into giantic creatures with colonies that seem to attack human beings. After several folks are found dead in the desert, FBI Agent Sgt. Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) with FBI agent Bob Graham (James Arness) to investigate these strange occurances. They discovers that hordes of mutated ants are the cause, Dr. Harold Medford (Edmund Gwenn) and his daughter Patrica (Joan Weldon) help them try to solve a solution to get rid of the ant problem before they spread to the world.
A brilliant and thrilling 1954 Sci-fi horror classic that is one of the most cautionary movie tales of all time is one of the best Sci-fi movies around. The performances are nothing sort of outstanding and for it's time the special effects are quite dazzling even with chilling scenes of Ants attacking people. This movie is like a warning about the effects of radiation and what they can do to some animals who want vengence on the human race, a classic all the way that never gets old.
This DVD contains great picture and sound quality with extras like behind-the-scenes archieval footage, Trailer, montage and cast film highlights.
Movie Review: Beware of...the spiders?!
Summary: 5 Stars
When this movie was released in Sweden about 45 years ago, it was retitled "Spindlarna", which means "The Spiders". It still bore this title when it was first shown on TV years later, but recently, it's simply been called "Them" (the original English title).
The Spiders?! Why on earth would a horror movie about gigantic ants be called "The Spiders"??? There's not a single spider in the entire movie!
The retitling was either a joke, or a crude way of hiding the real plot. After all, you're not supposed to know that the monsters are ants, until they SHOW THEMSELVES. I was certainly surprised when I saw "Them" the first time. In fact, I was even a little bit irritated. I mean, I had expected large, woolly tarantulas! Besides, I happen to *like* ants. (I hate spiders.) Nuking a bunch of Black Widows would have made my day!
But yes, the movie is surprisingly good for a black-and-white production from 1954 (I didn't even know it was *that* old).
Therefore, I give it five stars.
Besides, ants in California or Arizona are probably nastier than the coy, peaceful garden ants we have in our Swedish rosebushes...
Beware then...of the ants.
;-)