Top 10 best Bug movies - Them! (1954) Discussion

[–] Michaelnlori 20 years ago

I know this is probably no help nowadays, but I have the film on laserdisc. It was part of the GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION box set.

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[–] joaquin602001-1 20 years ago

You've GOT to include Starship Troopers on this list.
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[–] wildcat-27 20 years ago

Them! naturally has to be on the list, as does The Deadly Mantis and Tarantula. My own choices are The Bug, Kingdom of Spiders, Arachniphobia and Eight Legged Freaks, which is a tribute to the first 3 mentioned.

As for Deadly Mantis on DVD, try Suncoast or some of the other video stores. With old movies being released left and right on DVD these days, you're bound to find it soon. Good Luck!

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[–] sawyertom 19 years ago

As far as I'm concerned if you had to get one bug movie, this is it!

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[–] judd_clarke 19 years ago

Here are some other good flicks, all from the Golden era of the 50s.
I'd call them Monster Movies rather than Bug movies. Oh, and when I say 'good', I mean - brilliantly awful. You know what I mean:-

Tarantula
The Black Scorpion
The Giant Gila Monster
Attack Of The Giant Leeches
The Killer Shrews
The Giant Claw
Earth vs The Spider

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[–] samuri5 19 years ago

GREAT choices. I'd have to include The Incredible Shrinking Man. How about that spider?

One of the WORST monster flicks had to be REPTILICUS. Bad, bad, bad...so bad it's not even ENJOYABLY bad.

Another memorable film for me was Monolith Monsters, which was just strange; giant stone things building up and collapsing, destroying mankind in the process.

And, as far as bugs and monster, the original King Kong is still perhaps the best (check out the restored scenes Peter Jackson dug up in the dvd release).

And, props to Starship Troopers being mentioned earlier. That's a cheesey, guilty pleasure for me, and unfairly overlooked for not only the bug SPFX, but the awesome spacecraft SPFX.

samuri5/Mark

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[–] tora3 19 years ago

what the hell are you talking about!!!!!!!!!!!! reptilicus is a great movie.....

but the movie "empire of ants" has to be on the list

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[–] thomasm5 19 years ago

Can't believe no one's mentioned Mothra. Them is still the king of giant bug movies as far as I'm concerned.

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[–] froggyar324 19 years ago

Judd: Did you see these in the Movie Theater? If not you missed a lot due to pan and scan loss of image.

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[–] rwsmith29456 16 years ago

'The Killer Shrews' had god-awful monsters. The 'shrews' were dogs with patches of hair pasted to them. There was nothing redeemable in the movie except for the first laugh at seeing the 'shrews'.

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[–] d-millhoff 10 years ago

Phase IV

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070531/

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[–] d-millhoff 10 years ago

Phase IV

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070531/

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[–] Skynet-TX 19 years ago

There are no giant bugs in The Nest (1988), but I think it's a very good film. From the Starship Troopers series only the first one is good.

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[–] jim47-1 19 years ago

How can all of you have forgotten the best ant film of them all? "The Naked Jungle", starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker, based on a Daphne DuMaurier story, is about as creepy as they come. Yeah, only the last third of the movie deals with the ants, but when they come, brothers and sisters, do they ever come!! "Them!" is the best pure horrow/SF ant flick, but TNJ is a better movie, and the ants aren't mutated; that's the way they really would act if there were that many of them.

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[–] penicks 19 years ago

I dare you, I double dare you to try to watch Marabunta. It is the worst movie ever made.

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[–] rwsmith29456 16 years ago

How does 'Marabunta' stand up beside 'Manos, the Hands of Fate" or whatever that movie I saw when the island native turned into a walking tree?

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[–] stillanotherharris 12 years ago

or whatever that movie I saw when the island native turned into a walking tree?

FROM HELL IT CAME!

Girl klowns get absolutely saturated with ice cream when they get excited.

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[–] nickm2 12 years ago

"FROM HELL IT CAME!"

And more than a few people said, "And to hell it can go..."

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[–] stillanotherharris 12 years ago

I don't think anyone will argue that point.

Girl klowns get absolutely saturated with ice cream when they get excited.

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[–] ianmacdcoleman 18 years ago

The ant attack part of The Naked Jungle is based on the story, "Leiningen Versus the Ants," written in 1947 by Carl Stephenson. I know that for a fact, because Heston's characer in the movie is named Leiningen. You could be right about the rest of the movie being based on a story by Daphne DuMaurier.

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[–] pdmh48 15 years ago

But you're not. The movie is based on"Leiningen Versus the Ants' with some Hollywood romance thrown in.

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[–] billellis 18 years ago

Far from forgetting The Naked Jungle, I watched it again this week. I didn't know about a connection with Daphne DuMaurier. It's not really a "bug movie" to me since most of it deals with Leiningen's struggle with having sent for a mail-order bride and getting arguably the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. Its production values are way above the typical 50s science fiction flick's, and the DVD remastering is very good.

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[–] phdyr51 18 years ago

I believe she wrote the story on which the movie "The Birds" was based, but not sure about "The Naked Jungle." Must research this.

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[–] microbit 19 years ago

I saw in this thread that "Empire of the ants" was considered as on the top ten list.
Huh ? EOTAnts is about the worst movie I ever saw, at one stage the ants (real little ones) are actually crawling on a piece of glass, "overlaid" onto the movie, it doesn't get much worse than that.....
No to mention that it'd have to be the pits in Joan Collins' career...

-- Kris

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