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Episode 72: 50's Giant Creepy Crawlers
Them! (1954), The Deadly Mantis (1957), and The Black Scorpion (1957)
The decade of the 1950s gave horror fans a ton of different giant monster flicks, but usually taking something seemingly harmless, such as ants or grasshoppers, but somehow, someway, are mutated into growing into gigantic proportions! We had giant spiders, praying mantis, mollusks, and anything these creative filmmakers could come up, just make them bigger and let them loose!
While modern critics, or even those at the time when these titles came out, passed them off as something for the kiddies and not to be taken…
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