Them!
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Movies: Thriller/Horror: Them!
By Butch Brookshier on Sunday, January 19, 2003 - 8:55 pm:

What the heck, I'll try and get this group of movies kicked off.
IMHO the best of the 50's Big Bug movies. Good cast. It was originally going to be a color film but, budget cuts caused to shot in B&W. A bit of good luck I think. Somewhere I saw a picture of the ants in color and they were too colorful. They looked more like a Mardi Gras float in color. The only one that doesn't make me want to do an MST3K number on it.

By MarkN on Sunday, January 19, 2003 - 10:02 pm:

I remember seeing this when I was a little kid. Well, all I could remember, till I saw it again years later, was the giant ant dumping a human ribcage down the side of the ant mound.

Working at Target sometimes women will by angora sweaters, or faux angora sweaters, and they remind me of "Glen or Glenda", which starred everybody's favorite B-movie director/actor, Ed Wood, in the leading role. He wore angora sweaters in it. I never saw it, only clips from it.

By Craig cue the dramatic incidental music Rohloff on Monday, January 20, 2003 - 7:18 am:

Them! One of these days, I'm going to see that film again; last time I saw it was close to thirty years ago when I was a kid.
I'm working on a diorama (scale model showing a scene) loosely based on this film, using large ant models and train layout buildings and accessories... I call it Those! (The caption/plaque goes a little like this... POLICE INVESTIGATOR: "What are you so scared of?" SHOCKED GIRL(pointing to a few ants on the wall): "Th-those!" POLICE INVESTIGATOR: "What, those ants?" SHOCKED GIRL: "B-bigger..." Dah dah DAAHMMMM!)

The Black Scorpion's another one I saw around the same time (and haven't seen since), and The Deadly Mantis was the other Big Bug flick I first saw back then. (TDM I've seen twice since then.)

By Christer Nyberg on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 5:45 am:

This movie's title was translated to "Spindlarna" for its swedish release, this translates back to "The Spiders".

By CR on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 7:40 am:

Living proof of the phrase "Something got lost in the translation." :)

By mike powers on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 7:22 am:

I love this film,it is truly one of the great Warner Brothers classic monster films of the '50's. I always loved the story that after Jack Warner upon seeing the first screening of "Them" turned to his people, growled & ordered "No more bug movies!"

By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Sunday, October 03, 2021 - 5:35 am:

Of course, a nuclear blast would kill ants, not make them big.

Still, this was a good movie for its time.

By Butch Brookshier (Butchb) on Saturday, October 09, 2021 - 8:11 pm:

My favorite of the 50s big bug movies.

By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Sunday, October 10, 2021 - 5:11 am:

Yeah, I like it too (as well as Tarantula).

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