{"id":38101,"date":"2023-01-21T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T00:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38101"},"modified":"2023-01-21T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T00:09:07","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-798","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/01\/21\/belated-movie-reviews-798\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just give her a pipe and she’ll fit right in.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

Them!<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1954) is a highly competent story-telling effort grafted onto a nuclear horror meme. It all starts with the discovery of a little girl wandering the New Mexican desert by the police. Traced to a nearby vacation trailer owned by an FBI agent, the location of her family remains a mystery, as the trailer has been wrecked.<\/p>\n

Sending the kid to a hospital via ambulance, the cops find a local store similarly vandalized, and the proprietor dead. One of the cops heads for the station, leaving the other to face the New Mexican night and its shadows.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t go well.<\/p>\n

Soon, a father & daughter team of entomologists from the Federal Government show up in response for calls for assistance. With their help, the local New Mexicans finally find a huge mound, and in it is … well … monsters.<\/p>\n

Nuclear monsters.<\/p>\n

They’re eradicated, but where there’s one mutation, there can be more, and a nationwide search yields another infestation under Los Angeles, missing children, and the ongoing challenge of bad special effects.<\/p>\n

But that last is the worst of the movie, and badly done monsters is something of a tradition in the industry of the time. The rest of Them!<\/em><\/strong> is absolutely nothing to sneeze at: tight, logical, and plausible plot, a minimum of gender discrimination, and excellent acting and sets. It was really a pleasure to watch.<\/p>\n

If you like monster movies from the era prior to the advent of computer graphics, Them!<\/strong><\/em>, despite its fairly odd title – yes, I know the little girl uses it – is one of the best of that category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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