Them! (1954)
- Directed by
- Gordon Douglas
- Genre
- horror film, action film, B movie, science fiction film, monster film, science fiction horror film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 466 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Giant ants mutated by radiation terrorize New Mexico and then Los Angeles. Law enforcement and scientists race to stop them from spreading and establishing new colonies.
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What happens
Them! is a 1954 black-and-white science fiction giant monster film starring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, and James Arness. Produced by David Weisbart, the film was directed by Gordon Douglas, based on an original story by George Worthing Yates that was developed into a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman, with adaptation by Russell Hughes. The film is one of the first of the 1950s "nuclear monster" movies, and the first with big bugs as the threat. A nest of gigantic irradiated ants is discovered in the New Mexico desert, and they quickly become a national threat when it is found that two young queens and their consorts have escaped to establish new colonies. The national search that follows culminates in a battle with the last surviving colony in the concrete spillways and storm drain system of Los Angeles. Critical reception was largely positive at the time of release, and Them! came to be regarded as one of the best American science fiction films of the 1950s. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the special effects category. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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