Favourite giant bug movie?

[Minstrel Boy]

I'm a Deadly Mantis man myself.

[flamingyouth]

1. Them!

:D

[barb162]

29. "Them" yes, terrific movie and it holds up I think as one of the first

1950s movies about bugs getting big because of nuclear or chemical or pollution or whatever else we screw up on this planet.

[Beaverhausen]

2. The Fly

[Minstrel Boy]

5. I was going to add it,

both original and remake, but I decided it violated my parameters, being not a true giant bug, but a human/bug hybrid.

The original scared my silly watching it on TV as a kid. (I'm thinking of picking up the DVD.) The remake didn't do much for me.

[General Zod]

19. I had nightmares about the spider scene when I was a kid....

....I saw it again a few years ago and all I could do was laugh hysterically. I had heard that Vincent Price and Herbert Marshall kept cracking up during the filming of that scene.

[Minstrel Boy]

21. The most disturbing thing for me

was his wife crushing his head and limb in a press, because he'd asked her to.

[General Zod]

22. Remember, his fly hand came out from under the press...

.... and she had to reset the press to crush his hand. Your right, that was an extremely gruesome scene.

[derbstyron]

3. spiders

they freak me out

[gottaB]

4. Mimic

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119675

It was almost good.

[Minstrel Boy]

6. oh yeah!

Forgot that one. Very creepy.

[General Zod]

7. Them! ......It still holds surprisingly well.......

.......and The Deadly Mantis was pretty cool. Though the story was not quite as strong as Them!

[bullimiami]

9. the mandible chomping close ups in Them!

were just too great. absolutely ed woods-ian.

[kodi]

8. starship trooper

the scene of the valley swarming with bugs coming straight over the walls was amazing. creepy as hell.

[Minstrel Boy]

11. damn - forgot that one too.

that was a great scene.

[bullimiami]

12. but ST was just done so corny.

that was dissapointing.

[American Tragedy]

18. That was the point

It's supposed to be a propaganda film.

[AVESGA]

10. Empire of the Ants

Joan Collins, as you've always wanted to see her...

(being chewed by giant radioactive ants)

[Minstrel Boy]

13. Edited to add Mimic and Starship Troopers

because it's the right thing to do.

[frylock]

14. them! was one of my favorite movies as a kid..

I still try and catch it whenever it's on.

[Medium Baby Jesus]

15. Food of the Gods!

How could you forget...

[indigobusiness]

16. The Tingler

with Vincent Price...cut that thing out of that mute lady that owned the theatre.

Was that a bug? Looked like a lobster sized centepede.

Scary as hell...B&w except for the bathroom scene with the blood running from the taps.

Haunted my entire childhood.

[peekaloo]

24. I LOVE that movie. The mute woman gave me nightmares!

I don't think The Tingler was an insect, though. I thought it was a manifestation of a person's fear(s).

Vincent Price was in three of all all time favorite horror/cheese films: The Tingler, House of Wax, and House on Haunted Hill.

:thumbsup:

[indigobusiness]

25. Not an insect, but as bug-like as you can get.

Vincent was in some Poe classics, too. (great man/actor)

The Raven. Pit and the Pendulum. Fall of the House of Usher. The Tell Tale Heart, etc

The mute woman was the victim, though. She got even in the end.

hehe

[Minstrel Boy]

27. Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant

"The Horla," I think.

And I think Price starred in a film based on de Maupassant's "Diary of a Madman."

"Masque of the Red Death" is my favourite of the Poe/Corman cycle, but I love all things Price.

[indigobusiness]

31. I did not know that

Fascinating. thanks

Vincent Price was a special man. I thought his turn in Edward Scissorhands was a fitting tribute to his legacy.

[American Tragedy]

17. Where the hell is Mothra?!?!

[HawkerHurricane]

20. Them!

The First, Best Giant Radioactive Insect Movie!
All the others are poor immitations. Set the cliche's for monster science fiction for a generation.

[LDS Jock]

23. The Ticks

With that guy who played Carlson on Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The ticks were huge due to chemicals being used to make drug crops grow larger. More of a comedy than horror movie

[miss_kitty]

26. Them!

but the Peter graves grasshopper movie was pretty cool. Especially when the grasshoppers walked across the picture of the skyscraper

[mwdem]

28. Them!

It scared the pants off me!!

[Arkana]

30. Fahrenheit 9/11

Oh wait...you mean that WASN'T a giant bug reading "My Pet Goat" to kindergartners while the nation was under attack?