Them! Review - Off The Shelf Reviews
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- This week Gary and Iain review and discuss, Them! (1954) by Director, Gordon Douglas. Starring, James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn and James Arness.
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There is a lot of charm in these classic sci fi movies, nowadays giant mutant animals movies are made as jokes and in a silly way, but back in the day they took it seriously and made with care and attention, the performances and special effects of this one are great and is cool to see appreciation for it to this day
Well said!
James Cameron's "Aliens" is essentially a modern remake of "Them!". even right down to the little girl who's parents were killed by the monsters but she managed to survive.
This is a wonderful creature feature and one of my all time favorites.
HELL YEAH!
It's not everyday you guys review a classic black and white horror film! This film started everything! It always goes back to the classics! Sadly new audiences wouldn't want to watch black and white films. These kinds of films were made with love and care! And it really goes to show you, black and white films like these are more time spent with love and care, instead of the crap we get today with low budget cheap and none caring industry of Hollywood these days. Them! Is one of a kind! A MUST WATCH!
The day I watched this at my grandfather's house... it was recorded on an old vhs... the next movie was cannibal holocaust. My life would never be the same!!! You's guys are awesome! Thanks for the incredible content!
Love the OCP shirt! I'd buy that for a dollar!
That’s funny.
"Aaargghhh! Them! THEM!" is the 1950s version of "They're Heeeerre" from the '80s
That doesn't make sense. Them came first. You have it backwards.
My dad showed this to me. The ants are beautifully done.
I love these 1950’s radioactive sci-fi monster movies. 🙂
Great stuff! I love these old classic movies. Some are good just for the cheese and how bad they are but theres a lot that are absolutely brilliant, like this one. One of my faves from this era is 'Night of the Demon', fantastic.
Night of the Demon is a fantastic film
@@davedennison7386 Just to advise anyone looking for a version of 'Night Of The Demon' to watch, make sure it's the British edit and not the shorter US version, which was re-titled 'Curse Of The Demon'.
26:00 Its Actually Ant Tastic Too.
I love these films from this decade. THEM, TARANTULA, BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, and of course GODZILLA. Such a great review and I hope you look into others of this genre as well. Can you imagine if this movie had been redone in the 80s with so many special effects talents at our disposal? I wonder who would give us that 80's gorefest.
James Arness’ scream was his own
It’s not a Bee movie, they are Ants!
This is one of my all time favorite movies. Loved the video.
As a kid I had it in my head that this was part one and Gojira was the sequel. Little did I know that these two movies came out the same year.
I haven’t thought about this movie in 25 years. My friend showed it to me on vhs, I was hooked
Please make a playlist of films with flamethrowers, because Mac wants it!
I loved this movie as a kid.
An all-time classic, one of my favourite 1950s sci-fi films. Oh how I have been waiting for this review from the dynamic duo.
Oh..this classic I remember! Thank you guys! 👍
Surprised neither of you chose as a favourite scene:
“MAKE ME A SERGEANT IN CHARGE OF THE BOOZE!”
One of the greatest lines in movie history. I use it as often as possible. But nobody knows the reference.
An absolute classic. Cheers guys.
Awesome OCP shirt!
Easily one of the best 50s Sci-fi/Horror movies. Up there with The Thing From Another World, War Of The Worlds, and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.
Safe to say without this movie we wouldn't have had Aliens, Startship Troopers, or EDF. Oh, and the Fallout 3 mission "THOSE!"
Funny, my dad showed me this one too!
Wow,l didn’t realize Leonard Nimoy was in this movie until I watched this video and l’ve seen “Them” a number of times.As to the special effects,l think the giant ants look fine-l’ve never had a problem with their appearance.Maybe younger people think they look hokey but l always found them believable.
Enjoyed this. Could you review The Green Slime (1968)
Love the T shirts lads!
Now i see where James Cameron got inspiration for Aliens, pretty sure he got the newt story line based on the girl of this film
Bought the blu Ray lasy year, love this film.
YIPEEE one of my favs cheers lads.
Yes! Please do more classic black and white monster movies from America or otherwise. Cough *Gojira* cough
The man in the mental hostital is Fess Parker from Walt Disney's Davy Crocket or Daniel Boone .
Walt watched this when he was considering James Arness for Davy Crockett and saw Parker. Arness got his own long-running gig on Gunsmoke within months, so it worked out for both of them.
THEM! Excellent! Have a good one, Shelfers!
The Wasteland Shelfer (p.7)
Sardine the bear jangles Shelfer's keys, nodding towards the women and children survivors of Trader's Bluff who now approach the pair slowly, unsure of themselves. "We only ask one more favour!" shouts, who seems to be the leader of the group, "I know!" replies Shelfer.
Sardine slots Shelfer's keys back into his battle buggy and runs off, knowing the sight of a grizzly bear may not put the traumatised group at ease. Shelfer knows Sardine will be watching and listening at a distance, so better stick to his word. "We will head where the sun rises, I know of a settlement, you can regroup there." Shelfer instructs the leader, knowing there's something else. Leader replying "We know the settlement you mean, we are... were traders. We need someone who knows how to handle the crator-critters who nest at the pass". "Yep, I know, we leave in 15 ticks" shelfer instructs as a little girl is inspecting the battle buggy. Shelfer sits on the sandy floor, back to buggy, and starts up his viewing device with its penny sized satellite dish whirling on top. On the screen plays Gary and Iain reviewing Hellraiser Judgement from a time before the nuclear wastelands formed. The group astonished, sit and surround our Wasteland Shelfer, all watching the show. Meanwhile Sardine lays on his back and picks his giant teeth with his massive claws, clearing out the last pieces of Raider meat from his dinner.
TBC...
Fantastic movie...one of my all time favorites both then & now. "Atomic Age" sci-fi horror. I have been watching this classic off & on for the last 50 years. Agreed, less is more. Just proves a point, when everyone involved in a film project has dedicated themselves amazing work is created. 👍
1:34 inspiration for james cameron's Aliens? nice
and it's also one of Ridley Scott's favorite films?
A remake is in the works
Don't start spreading false information based on nothing. I heard a remake was in the works 25 years ago. That's just bullshit
Immediate huge smile as soon as I saw the subject of this review!
This movie is fill with great characters and performances all the way through.
Great choice guys.
Thanks!
A DARK SONG! Please review A Dark Song!!
shelf life! ❤
It Came . . .
From the Desert!
Dirty bastards 😮
Awesome. How about District 9 guys?
Fucking prawns 😂
@@colcostello160 😂
OTSR 4 life 👊👊
Guys, where the fuck is Saw X review? 😅
The desert, unchanged for millions of years, yet witness to a biblical prophesy come true that one day, the meek shall inherit the earth.
Also, is it me or does James Arness look like he’s got a kiddie’s helmet on?
one of the best !!!!
Can you do the great escape please❤
EDF EDF!
If you want more flamethrower carnage, one of these days you need to suffer through Irwin Allen's _The Swarm._ Given the script's radical departure from the once-respected novel (which ends on a note closer to Hitchcock's _The Birds_ than the sort of blow-stuff-up finale Allen preferred), Allen really had no idea how to end the movie, and I think he and screenwriter Stirling Silliphant just watched B-movies (ha) until they settled on something to ape. A small team of soldiers armed with flamethrowers is nonsensically sent out to burn a killer-bee-conquered Houston to the ground, which I'd swear they copped from _Them!_ The plan goes even worse than you might think before the film swipes its climax straight out of Bert I. Gordon's _Beginning of the End_ only with equally-nonsensical missile explosions, and throughout the entire mess we get Molotov cocktails, burning toy trains, and a nuclear meltdown. Also, the bees' stings universally induce hallucinations of giant bees. It's _insane_ and I love it.
To me, these movies ooze the American bravado of the time. Their strong, competent authority figures that will swiftly and promptly handle any threat posed by outside forces. It's a very post World War 2 American sentiment going on that didn't go away until the diasater of Vietnam and rise of the next generation. When you watch 80s horror, the authorities are always either: secretly evil, grossly incompetent, or unreliable. For movies made by children of the 60s, it isn't hard to wonder why they'd feel that way.
Yje young girl actress was in another great movie "The Story Of Ruth"
yes! more 50s classics !
About time you guy's did some 50s Sci-fi GREAT VIDEO VIDEO BUT ONE MISTAKE IT'S A PLANE NOT A Helicopter lol.
Let the giant mutated ants get those two young brats.........James Whitmore has got to survive instead! James Cameron obviously took inspiration from the city sewer scenes for 'Aliens' and the methodical way the Colonial Marines go about their search of Hadley's Hope.
What is a plasticen monster?
Just because the studio decided to not make a 3d color movie didn't change the special effects budget for the ants. What are these two talking about.
*turn up*
🐜
‘Them’, ‘Us’ and ‘It’… the pronouns trilogy? 🤔
Well the fact that they called in a ant expert clues you in what they suspect.
That title sequence is some what if a trope. Other then war and bomb stock footage and with a news reelesk narration
Some one pointed out that the chirping noises accurate ... as part of the U social communication.....ants are constantly sounding out chirps the way echo location users Although not the same
Aside from the Wilhelm scream there is also a car crash sound that gets over used and has become of a bit of a trope. I finally stop running into it about at the late half of the 80s
I really enjoy your reviews
Alotta movies talk about the history of the practical effects in there movie
Like for instance and Godzilla. How do use an old suit for the water scenes. Because water with destroy the suits what’s the suits deteriorate over time. And in some cases the suits Account for the sum total of the budget
Imagine if Howard hawks Directed this. They already great dialogue would’ve been better.
Have you guys reviewed the creature that conquered the world
What is the scientist for this movie have the attitude of the scientist from the thing from outer space?
Doesn’t James Whitmore look like the character from up