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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Beginning of the End, it turns a seemingly isolated disaster into a brisk, straight-faced investigation of radiation-created giant insects, with scientists and officials racing to contain an escalating threat.
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Why this pick
This shares the earnest 1950s science-gone-awry mood: experimental research produces an outsized menace, investigated through desert-set suspense and practical creature spectacle.
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Why this pick
Another Cold War-era giant-insect alarm, built around military-scientific procedure, remote warning signs, and a creature advancing toward populated territory.
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Why this pick
Its oversized arthropods and matter-of-fact disaster plotting offer the same pulpy pleasures: unexplained destruction, experts assembling clues, and a city-facing monster emergency.
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Why this pick
From the same director, this has Gordon’s compact, resourceful B-movie energy and miniature-driven visual imagination, shifting the scale gimmick from giant pests to shrunken people.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
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01 / THE STORY
The film opens with newspaper photojournalist Audrey Aimes (Castle) accidentally stumbling upon a small town (Ludlow, Illinois) which has been inexplicably destroyed. All 150 people in the town are missing, and the evidence indicates they are dead. Incredibly, the local fields are also barren, as if a swarm of locusts had eaten all the crops. Aimes suspects that the military is covering something up, and travels to a nearby United States Department of Agriculture experimental farm to learn what creature might have caused the agricultural destruction. She meets Dr. Ed Wainwright (Graves), who is experimenting with radiation as a means of growing gigantic fruits and vegetables to end world hunger. Dr. Wainwright reports that there have been a number of mysterious incidents nearby, and that locusts have eaten all the radioactive wheat stored in a nearby Silo.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Audrey Aimes
Gen. John Hanson
Col. Tom Sturgeon
Capt. James Barton
Frank Johnson
Maj. Everett
Cpl. Mathias
State Police Car 254 Officer
