Them!

MOVIE #1,737 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 06.19.24 Some random thoughts: There's a lot of expo and extraneous dialogue as they try to track down these ants, but these scenes are a cut above the normal fare for this type of flick: lots of eccentric characters and actors giving big 50s performances. The sound design of these big, nuclear insects’ buzzing is really… shrill and annoying? Kind of gave me a headache, but effective, I suppose.

This is the earliest movie I can recall seeing the L.A. aqueduct that’s in about a 100 movies, most famously, T2 (I’m sorry IMDb but I’m sure it’s more than 14!)...


I thought we were gonna get a big showdown in Los Angeles with these buggers but instead we have to settle for some more flamethrower action in the sewer system…


And one more time!...


This movie had access to flamethrowers and they sure got their money’s worth…


I liked this title drop: the little girl really gets the “!” across...


I liked it. Can't beat this dialogue...

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Them! is a 1954 American black-and-white science fiction monster film from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by David Weisbart, directed by Gordon Douglas, and starring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, and James Arness. The film is based on an original story treatment by George Worthing Yates, which was then developed into a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman and adaptation by Russell Hughes. It was released on June 16, 1954.