I mean it ended right when you think there was gonna be a big battle and all the soldiers but a few were gonna get eaten. I looked at the counter when it started getting good and shocked to see barley 3 mins remain great movie though. Anyone know any other good nuclear movies?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TzcANOHiDo
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A number of these contain the atomic radiation element. Others have gigantic critters of various sorts:
The Giant Behemoth aka Behemoth the Sea Monster
The Monster That Challenged the World
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
It Came from Beneath the Sea
The Black Scorpion
The Deadly Mantis
Tarantula
For a very funny film, especially if you're an Illinoisan, there's Bert I. Gordon's "Beginning of the End", with giant grasshoppers rampaging through the state, eventually reaching Chicago.
It's not the Fifties but they are good creepy critter movie: Phase IV (1974) and Kingdom of the Spiders (1977). They're normal size but menacing all the same.
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I agree with you on Kingdom of The Spiders-Shatners greatest ever non-Trek movie.Hes actually pretty good in it too-and what became of Tiffany Bolling?She is truly hot,very sexy and attractive.Quite a good actress as well-you would think she would have gone on to greater success.Still,great movie,far better than a TV movie really should be,and every bit as good as the later(and bigger budgeted)Arachnophobia.
shareActually, "Kingdom of the Spiders" was a theatrical release. I recall it being quite popular, and I think that it played theaters, not drive-ins, most places. I don't recall it being considered a "schlocky" movie, not like "The Giant Spider Invasion", with its Volkswagen spiders (not all that bad really) and the infamous spider-in-the-blender moment. I think "Kingdom" really holds up, especially that final aerial shot. It's definitely one of the better eco-horror movies.
Tiffany Bolling IS a very pretty lady, and she generally gave solid performances, even managing to hold up to the mayhem in "Wicked, Wicked". I recall becoming a fan of her and a number of other actors through "The New People" (1969-70 TV series), a 45-minute percursor to "Lost" that fit together with a 45-minute variety series hosted by David Steinberg (often accompanied by King Kong's foot *giggle*). (I see that it's listed as "Music Scene" on IMDb, but I don't recall that being the name, so my memory failed me, as it occasionally can.)
It's interesting that the radioactive critters of previous decades became ecological terrors in the Seventies and beyond. Hmmmm... When was the last time we had an RC?
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"Them!" started getting good right from the first scene. At the end, they had wiped out the nest. The problem was solved, the story over. What else did you want to see, FBI agent Bob Graham and Dr. Patricia Medford dating, marrying, and living happily ever after? Sergeant Ben Petersen's funeral? Dr. Harold Medford writing a scientific journal article about giant ants? The Los Angeles Flood Control District crew cleaning out the mess in the storm drain?
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