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Cast: Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges
Genre: Comedy Sci Fi
About: A group of unruly teens roll into a small town where they steal and then eat a chemical formula that makes them grow 30 feet tall. Once they've gotten big, they take over the town and hold the sheriff's daughter hostage.
Review: There's a whole lot of shaking going on, as teens are dancing and gyrating around. This is one of those cheaply made teen exploitative movies, that were churned out by the 100's for amorous young people to watch through steamy windshields at local drive-in theaters, that once dotted everytown America.
The real reason to watch this today is the historic look back to 1965, the movie is litteraly a time machine with it's pulse on the first stirrings of the Baby Boomer generation. The other reason to watch this is the cheese cake factor as we see closeups of young woman dancing to pop music and get very excited about it. They sure can dance too! I especially liked the scenes in the Whiskey a Go-Go club. No not the real one in LA, but a small club in the small town that the delinquent teens invade.
The sci fi element is a funky purple chemical concoction cooked up by boy science whizz, who's called Genius and played by little Ronny Howard. Yup, it's that Howard, the one who will grow up and become a director.
First a cat, then a dog are made giant, but the fun doesn't really start until a pair of dancing ducks are made big. Oh there's a scary giant tarantula spider scene in it, with a life or death struggle. But other than that everything is played for laughs and eye candy.
A very young Beau Bridges heads up the naughty giant teens. Tommy Kirk is the nice guy who has to battle a giant Beau with a sling shot....just like David and Goliath. Loosely based on H.G. Wells novel, Food of the Gods, but don't expect sci fi, instead look for blondes in bikinis
Village of the Giants (1965)
Director: Bert I. GordonCast: Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges
Genre: Comedy Sci Fi
About: A group of unruly teens roll into a small town where they steal and then eat a chemical formula that makes them grow 30 feet tall. Once they've gotten big, they take over the town and hold the sheriff's daughter hostage.
Review: There's a whole lot of shaking going on, as teens are dancing and gyrating around. This is one of those cheaply made teen exploitative movies, that were churned out by the 100's for amorous young people to watch through steamy windshields at local drive-in theaters, that once dotted everytown America.
The real reason to watch this today is the historic look back to 1965, the movie is litteraly a time machine with it's pulse on the first stirrings of the Baby Boomer generation. The other reason to watch this is the cheese cake factor as we see closeups of young woman dancing to pop music and get very excited about it. They sure can dance too! I especially liked the scenes in the Whiskey a Go-Go club. No not the real one in LA, but a small club in the small town that the delinquent teens invade.
The sci fi element is a funky purple chemical concoction cooked up by boy science whizz, who's called Genius and played by little Ronny Howard. Yup, it's that Howard, the one who will grow up and become a director.
First a cat, then a dog are made giant, but the fun doesn't really start until a pair of dancing ducks are made big. Oh there's a scary giant tarantula spider scene in it, with a life or death struggle. But other than that everything is played for laughs and eye candy.
A very young Beau Bridges heads up the naughty giant teens. Tommy Kirk is the nice guy who has to battle a giant Beau with a sling shot....just like David and Goliath. Loosely based on H.G. Wells novel, Food of the Gods, but don't expect sci fi, instead look for blondes in bikinis