Them! (Snapcase Packaging)
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Movie Review: Keep It Coming Warner Bros.
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow! I can really appreciate the extra creativity that was put into this DVD offering of THEM! The movie has been one of my faves since I was about 10. Although I wasn't around when the original drive-in release happened, I saw it repeatedly on "Shock Theater" and "Scream-In," two of southwestern Ohio's late night movie shows in the early 70's. The menu itself is cool using the comic strip type blurps often used in the original theatrical release promotional artwork of this type of late 50's creepy classic. It even has a behind the scenes section that must have been buried deeeeep in the vault at Warner. I really do hope that the studio puts out the other "buggy" classics that followed this one, such as Tarantula, The Deadly Mantis, and Black Scorpion so I can continue to occasionally drown myself in the nostalgia of the benign past. Keep it Coming Warner Bros.!!! GREAT JOB!!Movie Review: Six Legged Freaks!
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw THEM! on the late-late show when I was about 8-9 years old. I never forgot it! The opening scene, where the police find the little girl walking down the deserted road alone, is stunning! She clutches her doll and stares blankly ahead. James Whitmore is excellent as the state trooper who stumbles upon the hideous mystery of THEM! James Arness plays the hardboiled FBI guy, smitten with the daughter of the scientist (played by Edmund Gwynne). The tension builds slowly, until one of our true stars appears over a hill. A big hairy ant! The sound they make is haunting. I remembered it for the 30 years between viewings of this sci-fi wonder! No gore. No nudity. No real violence or profanity. A tribute to the way movies used to use story and imagination over cheap shock value and splatter. Watch for Leonard Nimoy's tiny role! Highly recommended...Movie Review: 6 Reasons To Praise This Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm glad to read so many positive reviews here of this 1950s sci-fi/ monster-type movie. I couldn't agree more. Most of the genre is so bad, the films are laughable.......but not this one! It deserves the praise.
Why does this film in the midst of so many bad efforts of the genre and time period get rated so highly?
1 - A good cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn and James Arness are all pretty famous actors who do a fine job here,; 2 - Good special effects, meaning they still look pretty real even 55 years later; 3 - A pretty intelligent script, certainly far better than its competitors; 4 - None of the standard stupid love interest to take away from the storyline; 5 - Just the right amount of action, and finally, 6 - It keeps your interest all the way through. There are no lulls and it is genuinely suspenseful.
Movie Review: They don't make THEM! like they used to
Summary: 5 Stars
In addition to what everyone else has posted about this great movie, I just want to add that I originally saw it on some Saturday afternoon Monster Matinee sort of show when I was a kid and it made a huge impact on me. I still can't believe it's just over 90 minutes-- it seemed so epic to my young, impressionable mind, and things just kept getting worse and worse for Our Heroes, that it seemd to be hours long! There are so many great things just tossed off in this movie-- like L.A. being placed under martia law, or the battle against the ants on a cargo ship out at sea-- that would be a whole movie if it was made today, but it gives THEM! a thrilling intensity. Of course, nowadays when I watch it I find the hardest thing to believe is the unquestioned belief that the government is always right...Movie Review: One of the best sci-fi thrillers ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Mutant ants gone wild in the New Mexico desert is the theme of this horror classic that rates as one of the genre's best films and the off-beat casting also helps to make the movie so memorable. The monster ants are fightening and the spare but somber music score adds an understated tension to the film, which plays out in the storm drains of Los Angeles. Edmund Gwynn, James Whitmore and James Arness are good, and Fess Parker has a small but pivotal role as a mental patient. It was in this film that Parker came to the notice of Walt Disney, who soon cast Parker as Davy Crockett in the very popular Disney television production of the Tennessee frontiersman. Of the many mutant insect films made during the 1950s, it was this picture that was by the far the best sci movie of them all.