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Summary: The Killer Shrews
Review: This movie is about the streets, and how a hard life can harden a shrew and force them to form rival gangs. Switch blades are drawn, bandanas are worn, and guns are a'blazin in this great portrayal of shrew gang life in the 90's...
Enjoy.
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Summary: Dogs in shrew suits
Review: Dogs in shrew suitsI first saw this in the movies. And let me tell you this is really spooky for kids (or used to be.)
We find our selves on an island where a hand full of visitors, including us, find eerie from the beginning. Of course from the title we are anticipating "you know whats" at any time. But the visitors to this island have no idea what they are in for.
An experiment with the intent of correcting overpopulation has gone awry, et voilà killer shrews. These ravenous creatures must eat many times their weight daily to keep from starving. And I must say that Ingrid Goude (Miss Universe Sweden 1956) would make a tasty snack (not that I notices at the movies.)
Well the people are protected by adobe (mud) walls from the poisonous fanged carnivores (did I mention the fangs are poisonous?)
Wait, it's RAINING!
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Summary: YIKES!
Review: How do you address the issue of an over-populated world? Small Private Island + Wacky Scientists + Gorgeous Blonde Daughter + Handsome Sea Captain + Jealous Drunkard + Hurricane, PLUS...SEVERAL MUTANT GIANT POISONOUS BONE KNAWING SHREWS...Equal one heck of a disaster flick! Pretty remarkable for 1959. =^..^=
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Summary: A Black an White Classic!
Review: I remember seeing this moving as a small child and it stuck in my memory all these years. It took me an intense internet search to get the name of the movie again. If you love the old black and white horror movies...add this one to your collection. It be a good rainy night movie for the family.
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Summary: A classic bad movie that doesn't stack up to PLAN NINE
Review: No question, people watch this movie to enjoy the "badness." And it is bad. A small group of people stranded on a tropical island (where there is a lab conducting suspiciously silly experiments with Shrews) because of a Hurricane must fend off marauding gigantic Shrews. Just that basic idea, to say nothing of the title, are enough to start giggles.
I particularly liked the fact that although there was a horrible hurricane, one can scarcely sees the trees blowing in the wind or detect any bobbing of the small boat in the bay. I guess we just have to take their word for it. Perhaps it was a Category "Negative 5" hurricane.
The movie mostly consists of ridiculously stilted dialogue, much of it with the characters crowded around a very flimsy looking bar. We don't see much of the scientific facilities. Guess all these guys like to do is drink. Our hero makes eyes at the heroine, the daughter of the scientist, and she responds with incredible blankness. Frankly, the acting is barely noticeable. No one really manages a single believable moment. The reason PLAN NINE or ROBOT MONSTER are such hoots is because the "acting" is insanely unpredictable and laughable. Everyone in those films is fully committed to their "art"...they just don't have any actual skills. In SHREWS, I was tempted to skip ahead frequently...hoping for some KILLER SHREWS.
When they come...dogs in furry costumes...they are laughable and not terribly scary looking. Yes, I'm sure they could deliver a nasty bite, but they also look like a quick kick to the head would kill them. Lucky for the shrews, no one on the island is capable of even aiming a gun, much less hitting a shrew. The characters are constantly firing guns that are obviously directed no where near the villians.
It has its moments of camp, and its short, but I can't wholeheartedly recommend the movie for the bad-movie buff. I CERTAINLY can't recommend it to someone actually looking to have a good time!
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Summary: Shrew You Too!
Review: THE KILLER SHREWS is about a seafaring James Best (later to be immortalized in "The Dukes Of Hazzard") stranded on an island with a group of scientists, a beautiful girl, an alcoholic coward, and a horde of giant, mutated shrews (actually dogs in hairy shrew costumes)! Yep, the shrew mutants are the result of an experiment gone wrong. Best is pretty good in his role, and the rest of the cast are adequate, but the true stars for me are the ravenous rodents themselves! Complete with hauntingly eerie snarls and six-inch fangs, these babies are loose and ready to devour anyone they can get a hold of! Can our hero save these folks from becoming shrew snacks? Watch and see...
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Summary: Shrew You Too!
Review: THE KILLER SHREWS is about a seafaring James Best (later to be immortalized in "The Dukes Of Hazzard") stranded on an island with a group of scientists, a beautiful girl, an alcoholic coward, and a horde of giant, mutated shrews (actually dogs in hairy shrew costumes)! Yep, the shrew mutants are the result of an experiment gone wrong. Best is pretty good in his role, and the rest of the cast are adequate, but the true stars for me are the ravenous rodents themselves! Complete with hauntingly eerie snarls and six-inch fangs, these babies are loose and ready to devour anyone they can get a hold of! Can our hero save these folks from becoming shrew snacks? Watch and see...
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Summary: "...bone, flesh, marrow, everything..."
Review: The Killer Shrews is one of my favorite B&W Sci-Fi films ever. Sure it's bad but it's supposed to be. The idea of giant shrews eating everything they can just gets under my skin. There is some very effective imagery that genuinely creeps me out. For the price you can't go wrong. A perfect film for large gatherings of people, probably best viewed under the influence of something or anything. Alternately funny and scary, the title alone should make anyone curious. Go on you know you wanna watch it.
"...the wildest and most vicious..."
"...some call them bone eaters..."
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Summary: Some really good special effects
Review: The Killer Shrews is your typical drive-in movie with some of the worst special effects ever put in a movie, yet it is still an enjoyable movie. Captain Thorne Sherman and his first mate, "Rook" Griswold, must dock at an island to drop off supplies, but also to avoid being caught in a hurricane. Once there, they find a small team of scientists working on a secret project, only they can't figure out what. As night falls, the team insists they don't leave. It is revealed that there are 300 starving, killer shrews loose on the island. The result of a scientific experiment gone bad, the shrews must eat three times their body weight everyday. Will the team survive? Find out for yourself. The shrews are just dogs in hairy costumes with huge fangs. The close-ups of the "shrews" are even worse. Even with this ridiculously low budget, The Killer Shrews is still a lot of fun. I would categorize this movie as one of those that is so bad, it is good. James Best of Dukes of Hazard fame plays Captain Thorne Sherman who mishaps upon Shrew Island. Former Miss Universe Ingrid Goude is Ann Craigs, a scientist's daughter who falls for Cpt. Thorne. Ken Curtis stars as the cowardly Jerry, who will do anything to save his own hide. Baruch Lumet plays Dr. Milo Craigis, the leader of the scientists. The movie also stars Gordon McClendon as Dr. Baines, Alfredo DeSoto as Mario, and Judge Henry Dupree as "Rook" Griswold. The DVD is in black and white with standard presentation. For a really cheesy but fun drive-in horror movie, check out The Killer Shrews!
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Summary: Some really good special effects
Review: The Killer Shrews is your typical drive-in movie with some of the worst special effects ever put in a movie, yet it is still an enjoyable movie. Captain Thorne Sherman and his first mate, "Rook" Griswold, must dock at an island to drop off supplies, but also to avoid being caught in a hurricane. Once there, they find a small team of scientists working on a secret project, only they can't figure out what. As night falls, the team insists they don't leave. It is revealed that there are 300 starving, killer shrews loose on the island. The result of a scientific experiment gone bad, the shrews must eat three times their body weight everyday. Will the team survive? Find out for yourself. The shrews are just dogs in hairy costumes with huge fangs. The close-ups of the "shrews" are even worse. Even with this ridiculously low budget, The Killer Shrews is still a lot of fun. I would categorize this movie as one of those that is so bad, it is good. James Best of Dukes of Hazard fame plays Captain Thorne Sherman who mishaps upon Shrew Island. Former Miss Universe Ingrid Goude is Ann Craigs, a scientist's daughter who falls for Cpt. Thorne. Ken Curtis stars as the cowardly Jerry, who will do anything to save his own hide. Baruch Lumet plays Dr. Milo Craigis, the leader of the scientists. The movie also stars Gordon McClendon as Dr. Baines, Alfredo DeSoto as Mario, and Judge Henry Dupree as "Rook" Griswold. The DVD is in black and white with standard presentation. For a really cheesy but fun drive-in horror movie, check out The Killer Shrews!
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