THEM! Trailer (1954)

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Loved this movie for over 40-years. Get the DVD!!!

[@ftsjr]

The 1950's was a "golden age" for Sci-Fi movies. Them, It Came From Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, The Thing, Godzilla, The Fly, and so on. I can name quite a few more, but I'm sure you get my point. I was born near the end of the 50's, so, unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to see them in the theater. I love them all, though. A good movie along the same lines is "Matinee'" (1993) with John Goodman. It's about a similar type movie, shown during the Cuban missile crisis.

[@comicbookal]

Incredible coincidence because i enjoyed this too each and every time it was shown first on New York's channel 2 (CBS) and in the late '60's on channel 9. Channel 9 had "Million Dollar Movie" and would show the same film twice a day during the week and 3 times on Saturday's and Sunday's. The Crawling Eye was ( and still is) an all time favorite of mine and "Them!" is definitely at the top of the list.....

[@lanagorgeous9485]

I absolutely loved the horror and sci fi movies of the 50's. I saw them when I was a little kid in the late 60's and they were fantastic. Even some of the movies of the 40's like the original Wolfman with Lon Cheyney Jr. Good Stuff all the way round 😎

[@hpribot]

A good movie from the 50's. Still worth the time to watch.

[@ardashir51]

THEM! is, and always will be, one of the all-time classics.

[@Spaseebo]

MAGNIFICENT! One of the greatest horror flicks ever, poor James Arness squeezed to death by an ant. Many thanks for posting the trailer.

[@456swagger]

Nah, James Arness survived. James Whitmore got squeezed.

[@SnowFieldMusic]

I remember watching this as a little kid in the sixties on a Saturday night with TV dinners in front of the tube!!! What a classic!

[@monalisajack]

One of the best B horrow films of all times.. I still watch it today.

[@CadetGen]

One of the best movie scores EVER! Bronislau Kaper was in top form when he made this wonderful pulse pounding score.

[@goji3755]

A squeeky car just drove by outside my apartment that, no joke, sounded exactly like the ants from this movie. It was hillarious, epic, and "wtf" all at once!

[@LostUtopiaFilms]

I swear I could watch these old 50's trailers all day. No matter how the filmed turned out you can always rely on a great classic trailer that reminds you what the name of the movie is every 30 seconds! lol

[@TXnine7nine]

I've saw this movie when I was still a little kid and now have the DVD. Great movie... I wonder what they could do today if they had a remake with modern special effects and CG... I can only hope... :D

[@megarouge2001]

This is by far the best giant bug movie ever made. Excellent script, superb story, even the special effects are pretty good for their time.

[@joevet66]

One of the best movies to come out of the 50's I saw it as a kid, and every now and then it will show on cable, it was done to look and sound real.

[@mickeymousebiker1]

I liked how this one starts out. WB didn't make a lot of Sci-Fi flicks in the 50s, but the ones they put together were top-shelf. This one and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms were two of the best from the 50s.

[@Palifiox]

I saw this when I was a kid in the 1950s and it gave me the heebie jeebies for months. When I hear cicadas I still recall it.

[@bhbluebird]

One of the better bug movies from the fifties. Great sound and special effects relative to its time. Decent directing also.

[@RMG1234567890]

I remember watching this movie with my aunt and grandma when i was 5 and it was one of my favorite movies... now I'm almost 19 and i still love this movie...

[@jim-parker.solutions]

You watched this movie with your... aunt?

[@fatdanios]

That's a fun fact! Thanks! You have to give credit to the foley artists of that day! I also got a kick out of the noise for the big caterpillars in Rhodan...Of course, all the big dinosaur roars were cool, too. Thanks for the trivia! :)

[@OmniTron1000]

of all the giant monster movies, this is my favorite. By far...this one is just a real classic, to me anyway.

[@Monster_gamez-f4n]

I remember watching this movie on AMC back when I was little. It was so awesome yet scary at the same time when the ants make those terrifying noise.

[@luvindogadis411]

"Them!" is an awesome 50's classic monster movie. I also like: "Gojira (1954)", "20 Million Miles To Earth" and "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms". "Gojira" was the best though (the original Japanese version).

[@FlyingFocs]

Man, I love the score for this film. Chilling 50's sci-fi at it's greatest.

[@alastairward2774]

What an old upload, old enough that I hadn't sat down to watch this with my daughter when it went live.

[@snakes3425]

There is no word to describe THEM I can think of two: Giant Ants

[@fairday2]

They did a movie about giant scorpions, called "Black Scorpion." It was also caused by the nuclear testing. And, of course Godzilla came from these tests, too. There was a movie about a giant spider that came from a scientist doing strange experiments. Those were the good old days. Oh, yeah. There was also one with giant praying mantises. New movies could come from the effect of agent orange or something. Military use many secret weapons now.

[@gregstevenson9489]

Loved this movie as a kid in the 60's. Frequently on Channel 9 in LA long with another (no so) classic, the Crawling Eye.

[@nickdalby2168]

Yeah I love the sci-fi horror movie them featuring giant ants

[@comicbookal]

Now this is what I call QUALITY science fiction film making! Started out as what I thought was a murder mystery and shot straight into science fiction film territory. Other QUALITY science fiction films of the '50's: The Day The Earth Stood Still, War Of The Worlds, The Thing, This Island Earth, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Forbidden Planet, Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The Fly, 20 Million Miles To Earth, The Creeping Unknown, and Enemy From Space among the many GREAT movies of the 1950's...

[@HermitOfTheHills]

This brings back memories. Me and my Dad use to always watch this when I was young

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Loved this flick for over 40-years. Get the DVD! Lots of fun.

[@daninflorida1]

hello all fans of them,its the best sci fi film ever,great acting,script and effects,I saw it in the early 60s when it was ressiued with another film,then there were two films for say 1"25 under 12,it was always on tv and is shown on TCM,I bought the VHS,the dvd has extra features,one note:in the segment where the military persons are stamping the top secret documents,there is a unknown actor in his maybe first small part,ITS MR,SPOK

[@Irrelevant402]

My only complaint with this classic is it feels like there's going to be another five minutes or so of awesome action in the nest and then they find what they're looking for and end it.

[@mickeymousebiker1]

The BEST radiation-spawned monster flick. It starts out like an early '50s crime drama and then moves into the realm of Sci-Fi. Great story line. Great actors. WB did this one up right.

[@MegaMetalDemon]

I remember watching while channel surfing, I never really cared for movies like this before, but this one got me into alot of different science fiction/horror movies, not i love both styles, Such a great movie. If anyone knows any more movies where there are giant insects, let me know.

[@mujawooja]

this has always been one my favourite movies. The giant ants and effects in this film are great.

[@BleachFan9891]

This movie rocks, got on a double feature dvd with The Beast form 20.000 fathoms.

[@drystyx]

The greatest sci fi film ever made!

[@2ammochief]

One of the best and scariest scifi movies of the 50s. May not be understood by some of the younger generations who need spattered blood and brains to enjoy a movie.

[@johndates9827]

Doctor: "Look, saliva to hold the walls together". James Whitmore: "Yeah? Well spit is the only thing holding me together." Great line.

[@doyasteve]

Thanks very much for sharing this.

[@graveheart1138]

Man!! To this day this film is still a classic!!! They seriously don't make movies like this anymore!

[@JAQUEOBAUER]

I am watching the film now on TCM--its probably the 20 th time in the last 40 years. Love the flamethrowers and bazooka's.

[@jgstargazer]

@deriter64 Those programs on early tv were fun to watch. It's amazing how the sound of a squeaky wheel would catch a kid's attention and make the movie more suspenseful.

[@LordofSadFac]

i love the 50's horror/scifi movies, they are very good, i'll try to watch this movie :D

[@clrjazz]

I remember watchdog this movie a thousand times or more, and with each and every time it got better and better. The cinematic filming the score the actors and the fact that they were filmed in black and white made that era of movie making spectacular.

[@robbieunderwood8349]

I just received this dvd in the mail. Going to make pizza and popcorn tonite and watch it!

[@KerrdogJ]

This was definitely one of the greatest horror films of all time! : )

[@pooryorick831]

Boy this movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Now it seems pretty silly. But for a kid in the 1960s watching monster movie marathons on the UHF band, THEM! was the stuff of nightmares. 😂

[@deriter64]

God we had fun watching this movie on the first go round!

[@raigekiman]

LOL when i saw this movie it did mention brownsville TX, and corpus cristie. i was WOW were meantion in this great classic movie. became my all time fav B&W film

[@neetrab]

I remember seeing this YEARS ago (maybe at least 20 yrs ago) when I was in grade school..lol! It must have been movie day or something. Haven't seen it since. Thanks for posting!!

[@ExuroProEternus]

heard about this from the misfits song "them"... damn they sure as hell knew their sci fi movies.

[@gilmourwannabe]

Outstanding trailer, this movie used to scare the crap out of me as a kid, me and my friends would kill ants in the summer so this would not happen! GREAT MEMORIES! TKS> tobar

[@CoreBelote]

@tobar1p In actuality the movie "Starship Troopers" was originally just a script called "Bugs". But when it came time to sell the movie they fleshed out plot holes by tacking on information from Heinlein's book and changed the name to "Starship Troopers". Which is why there are power armours in the movie like there are in the book, the power armours only work their way in by the third installment in the series.

[@fredflintstone2927]

I have always loved this movie; and i bought it through Amazon. There is just something about this 50's genre of movie making that was classic. Leonard Nimoy appears briefly as an Air Force sergeant in this movie; and Dub Taylor and Fess Parker also make brief appearances. What's lurking in White Sands New Mexico near Alamogordo??? ... giant Ants mutated from the first Atomic bomb test. This movie and the original Godzilla first debuted in 1954 - I wonder which was first to come up with the idea that atomic radiation from the bombs caused mutations to occur... the Japanese or the Americans???

[@tobar1p]

The Americans with THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953). It's what inspired Godzilla.

[@josephrouleau9259]

Fred Flintstone The Beast from 20,000 fathoms was the first picture to feature a creature awakened by a bomb test and I think this may be the first film to feature monsters mutated by the bomb. If I remember right, Godzilla marks the first time a bomb test resulted in the creation of a new kind of creature (as opposed to a simply a gigantic version of a preexisting animal) though.

[@Robo1415]

Yep...it also talks about "signs in the sky'...i always thought that might mean ufos...

[@Ekusupuroshon]

the old movies has awesome titles,creative lines etc

[@mickeymousebiker1]

Man, I know I'm old. I saw those movies at the theaters --first-run. Hokey; primitive special effects; but, they were fun.

[@tobar1p]

@DarkDialga960 Exactly. The problem with today's big films is that there's no substance to them. They're all about the flashy special effects and completely neglect the story. Likewise, the majority of remakes fail to retain what made the originals so great because they focus on the wrong things.

[@conewells]

This movie and beast from 20,000 fathoms began it all! Warner Bros. knew how to make 'em.

[@JaegerMatthias]

Thumbs up if this kicks the crap out of CGI.

[@John_Michael2000]

I got this movie on DVD.. Love it

[@RonaldVaughan]

James Arness (pre-Gunsmoke)... "GIANT ANTS"! wow.... and dig the BACKGROUND MUSIC of this and other sci-fi classics

[@18661873]

"Make me a Sargent in charge of the booze!" "Make me a Sargent, gimme the booze!"

[@Lockbar]

18661873 Shut up, Jensen!

[@jediamni]

I love this movie so much!

[@hpribot]

A very good film, if fact I've got it on the TV right now.

[@joevet66]

In this Movie they said the name of my hometown Brownsville Tex. when I watched it in 1954 I was a kid and that night I could not sleep, funny now that I think about it.

[@Loverboy19691]

This film was shown as part of the horror double Bill season on BBC 2 on Saturday the 12 of August 1978, followed, The incredible shrinking man, I remember the night.

[@blank557]

James Cameron had to be inspired by "Them!" for making his Aliens movie. It has a shell shocked little girl, caverns and tunnels, hatched eggs, and a generous use of flamethrowers.

[@wolfmantheimpaler]

there's Tarantula, Beginning of the End, The Black Scorpion, Earth vs the Spider, there was a ton of movies like that back then some better than others

[@KKAkuoku]

The only way this film can be topped is if Harryhausen animated the giant ants.

[@FlatHamster]

I remember watchin this one sunday afternoon with my dad many yrs ago...i thought it was the dogs bollox and ive been a huge fan of 50s b-movies ever since.

[@Lexicon1971]

I saw this when I was a kid. Great Movie

[@rangeclerk]

@HorrorLover128 Didn't mention what the class was. THEM Set standard of Atomic Monsters for the 50s! Actors played their roles to a 'T"! This film started the idea of including some basic science concerning the 'monsters', film that is played for the heads of the US Govt. This gave those watchin' the movie a little bit of understanding of ant behavior! It starts off as a mystery then a possible murder investigation until it comes SF--can think of this as the 1st X-Files! James Arness FBI Agent

[@gav1230]

one of my favorite films

[@Therewatchinu462]

Dam Is this what they called entertainment back then.............. BECAUSE THIS IS AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Runningtail]

this is the staple that defined the atomic age of horror

[@7jack7]

And in the end, all it took was flamethrowers

[@whoyin93]

While the government can just use some Tiny Tim rockets or even just normal bombers to deal with that giant ant

[@DimitriandRozaxx]

I love this movie! And it has Brooks off Shawshank Redemption! :)

[@jackryan9183]

Great movie! Santa Claus (Gwenn) & The Thing from Another World (Arness) battle giant radioactive ants!!

[@TrenchcoatNinja3]

I remember watching this movie when i was 5, scared the shit outta me, but it brings back memories.

[@fatdanios]

I love that noise the ants make!

[@KreiviX]

@ExuroProEternus Misfits has introduced me shit loads of good old scifi and horror movies. Great band, great movies.

[@rockhammer85]

Great special effects.

[@gieron1]

In Sweden this movie was called "Spindlarna". Which means "The Spiders".

[@doughaddix2003]

I got a hellacious whining belt on my car engine that sounds just like the giant ants on the old movie "Them"!!

[@doughaddix2003]

I got it fix finally and thank god. lol

[@Liam_Yves]

This is PERFEKT for this times! #corona #2020

[@brad143aura309]

One of the best of the 50,s? How about one greatest monster movies of all time? A time when the "scare-factor" of a movie wasn't rated just by body count or gore. The monster and sci-fi movies of the 50's were true "classics". Some were genuinely brilliant, suspensful, and well-acted...while others were just hilarious. Either way, they can still be a lotta fun!

[@Laceykat66]

True, but still better than any trailer you see today. If you have seen the trailer, you have seen the movie.

[@joevet66]

The name of my home town Brownsville Texas is mention in this movie.

[@IAmFwee]

One thing that really confuses me about this trailer is how the creatures are a "nameless horror." How hard is it difficult to describe giant ants?

[@DBSpy1]

Rocketdyne,Rocketdyne (1959) Was a nuclear testing facility in Simi Valley California and was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history did nuke the Valley,and told no one.

[@Radionut]

This movie scared the POO POO out of me when I was a KID!! Best Movie of all time!!!

[@snakes3425]

@tobar1p This is one movie that will probably never get a remake because the idea that inspired it, Fear of the Atomic Bomb isn't as overt or prevelant as it was back when THEM was made

[@thefalloutkid13]

i love this movie i used to watch when i was like 8 years old when they had monster movie marathon and shit me and my grandma. i really want to find this movie i been collecting older monster movies left and right this summer but cant find them!

[@shadowofchaos41]

This is really a good movie.

[@renew1098]

The future of fear special had brought me here

[@GretaGargoyle]

@HorrorLover128 out of curiosity, what subject were you studying? Mid-century kitsch? Zoology Gone Wrong?