Attention U.S. TCM Subscribers: This will be a really bad day for anyone who encounters Them! (the giant mutant ants that is). The motion picture, however, is an exhilarating creature feature. More here including (updated) Friday (Sept. 6, 2019) afternoon's showtime information throughout the U.S.):
Well, I'm sure we all wish the creatures were alittle better animated, and the bazooka effect is a tad fake, but everything else is perfect including the music, right from the start over the Warner logo. I still laugh out loud when Gwenn snaps at Whitmore in the helicopter - seems spontaneous rather than scripted.
Great atom era monster movie. What are some of the other great giant insect films from its time, besides The Incredible Shrinking Man, which isn't so much a giant insect film as it is a tiny human film?
Great atom era monster movie. What are some of the other great giant insect films from its time, besides The Incredible Shrinking Man, which isn't so much a giant insect film as it is a tiny human film?
Tarantula (1955) The Deadly Mantis (1957) Monster from Green Hell (1957) [wasps] Beginning of the End (1957) [grasshoppers] The Black Scorpion (1957) The Spider (1958) The Cosmic Monsters (1958) [spiders and centipedes] The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) Empire of the Ants (1977)
Have you all seen them then? Ive seen them. But not seen them for a long time. Last time i saw them was when i was a kid. Watching them with my dad. He liked them too. We liked them better than the Incredible shrinking man. That was sad.
THEM! was screened poolside at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel during last April's TCM Classic Film Festival. We were all given antennae to wear during the movie. Such fun, and seeing this with an audience made it special.
THEM! was screened poolside at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel during last April's TCM Classic Film Festival. We are all given antennae to wear during the movie. Such fun, and seeing this with an audience made it special.
I bet! I was there at the Roosevelt just last July! What a great "TCM" hotel! Staying there was a real treat!
THEM! was screened poolside at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel during last April's TCM Classic Film Festival. We are all given antennae to wear during the movie. Such fun, and seeing this with an audience made it special.
Antennae? I love it. During the intermission did the audience start ferrying about large grains of sand twice their weight?
I just watched WILD NORTH(1952) and recognized a bit of Bronislau Kaper music used in THEM! (the montage of vehicles driving into the sewers). Speaking of the beasts conquering the earth, that movie has an intense wolf pack attack scene. Probably just dogs but the sheer number of them overwhelming the characters is pretty intense. Maybe THEM could have used dogs...
