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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381120127
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 25, 2003
Running Time: 73 minutes
Sales Rank: 35465
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: June 28, 1957
Editorial Review:
Description:
A small town demolished to the ground. Dozens of innocent people mysteriously missing. A monstrous secret covered up by the military. Lovely reporter Audrey Aimes (Peggy Castle) smells a scoop, and with the aid of Dr. Ed Wainwright (Peter Graves), the truth behind a titanic terror growing in the Illinois heartland is soon uncovered! Department of Agriculture experiments with radiation have created giant, man-eating grasshoppers, and now the oversized horrors are hopping their way to Chicago! Can this menace be stopped before the Windy City becomes another casualty? Or is this the Beginning of the End for mankind? This atomic drive-in favorite from mutant monster expert Bert I. Gordon (Village of the Giants, Earth vs. the Spider) delivers non-stop entertainment packed with creepy-crawly critters. Newly transferred from the original negative, this beautifully restored presentation brings all the big bug action bursting off your television screen like you've never seen it before!
Amazon.com:
Leapin' locusts! It's giant-insect time again, only this time the radiation from an agricultural experiment has turned Chicago into a breeding ground for gargantuan grasshoppers. It's all courtesy of '50s sci-fi schlockmeister Bert I. Gordon of The Amazing Colossal Man fame, and with Peter Graves as the nominal bug-busting hero, it's no wonder the guys at MST3K decided to roast this 1957 turkey on their popular TV show. But which is funnier, the movie itself or the skewering it gets from the snickering silhouettes of Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo? No matter, because you can have it both ways on this dubious DVD--plain or nutty! Some of the MST3K gags are cleverly twisted for trivia buffs (as when a cop approaches a wrecked car and Tom Servo says, 'Uh... Miss Mansfield?' or when the sight of falling grasshoppers yields the ad-lib 'Carry on our businesssssss...'). There are more hits than misses, and the movie's every bit as awful... er, great... as it sounds! --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 1950's Sci-Fi Clasic
This movie arrived just as it was described. The service was great, I would definaetly use this vendor again without hesitation.
Rating: - Beginning of the End
This movie is a must for any 1950's science fiction fan. Interesting that the female lead starts out as a strong character but when Peter Graves enters the scene she takes a back seat. Disappointing ending as far as the "special" effects.
Rating:  - Incredibly dissapointed!
I love old scifi schlock but yes I'm going to ruin this for you, just so you don't plunk down the money! They used 'real' grasshoppers. Just composited them on. It has feel of "Them" but not the cool giant puppets, just lame composites of real grasshoppers. Nothing monstrous at all. Sigh.
Rating: - I GREW UP ON THESE MOVIES! MST 3K TAKES ON AN OLD FAVORITE!
Well it's a good thing I have a sense of humor,because this film holds fond memories for me. I know it is a ridiculous movie,but I like it! What can I say? The special effects are beyond horrible. The scene when the giant grasshoppers are climbing the building near the end of the picture is a photograph with real grasshoppers crawling on it!..hysterically funny stuff. When you add the gang of MST3K in, you know your in for some fun!
Rating: - I never liked grasshoppers, but I love this movie
This is classic black and white sci-fi. Very entertaining. And to think Peter Graves has gone on to doing such meaningful commercials with lines such as putting on tangerine lip gloss, answering the door and feeling like one lucky woman! Must see!
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