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Newest Review: ... One of the great atomic scare pictures of the fifties, Them! is surprisingly well crafted and acted and the central ... more
... mystery is very engaging and moves in an intriguing and unhurried way. The film is about halfway through before we finally get some giant ant capers but works much better for this sense of restraint. I particularly love the scenes where Dr Medford amps up the ant themed tension by showing documentary films about them and droning on about their extraordinary abilities to worried audiences of government and military types. And these are ordinary sized ants he's talking about, not the ones the size of a small bus which are n...more
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Them [1954] (DVD): "Shoot the antennae!" (1030 words)by - written on 27/02/10 (Very useful, 108 readings)
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Them! is a classic 1954 black and white monster film about giant radiated, mutated ants running amok in the New Mexico desert and was directed by Gordon Douglas. 'A horror horde of crawl-and-crush giants clawing out of the earth from mile-deep catacombs!' went the blurb on the theatrical poster. The film won an Oscar for its special effects and is regarded to be one of the more successful examples of the sci-fi atomic age paranoia genre. In the New Mexico desert, near the small town of Alamogordo, a five year old girl (Sandy Descher) is found wandering alone and traumatised by Police Sergeant Ben Peterson (James Whitmore), her family caravan having been destroyed by a ... Read the complete review
