The Killer Shrews (1959) 3.4
On an isolated island, a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a hurricane. Director:Ray Kellogg |
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The Killer Shrews (1959) 3.4
On an isolated island, a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a hurricane. Director:Ray Kellogg |
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Ingrid Goude | ... | |
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Gordon McLendon | ... | |
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Baruch Lumet | ... | |
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Judge Henry Dupree | ... | |
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Alfredo DeSoto | ... | |
A disparate group are trapped on a remote island by a hurricane. On the island, a doctor works to make humans twice as small as we already are. This, apparently, will help prevent over population. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created some giant shrews. As the shrews run out of smaller animals to eat, they move in on the people in the house. Written by Dan Whitehead <dan@idg.co.uk>
I won't recount the plot - such as it is - of this campy classic, because several others have already done so. I'll just give a couple of reasons why it's SOOOO bad that it's hilarious ... which makes it good, or at least entertaining, in a perverse way. First, the "shrews" are quite obviously dogs wearing mop-like wigs and/or bathmats. Easily the worst "monsters" ever put on film. Second, it's clear that Ray Kellogg was on such a tight budget that they weren't going to waste film with reshoots no matter HOW badly a scene went. At one point, one of the actors obviously forgot his lines, so Ingrid Goude prompts him on-camera, saying "Aren't you wondering about my strange accent?" Truly a great moment in cheesy movie history!
Rated "straight" this movie gets about 2 points on a ten-point scale, just above the all- time stinkers like Plan 9 and Manos: Hands of Fate. As unintentional comedy, however, it's pretty entertaining and might rate 5/10.