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1* CaliforniaDoubling: There are ''no'' [[TheMountainsOfIllinois mountain ranges in Illinois]].
2* DesignatedHero: Dr. Ed Wainwright, Creator/PeterGraves' character. He CREATES the monsters, but never, at any point, apologizes for it - even though he's ''directly responsible'' at the very ''least'' for the death of his deaf/mute assistant. He acknowledges it, but treats it as if he simply forgot to feed the dog (what he forgot to do was create a sealed environment for his experiments using potentially dangerous atomic isotopes). Yeah, he does spend the remainder of the film trying to stop what he created, but it's too late. Lampshaded in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode.
3--> '''Wainwright:''' "In a way, I feel responsible..."
4--> '''Mike:''' "'In a way'?!"
5* FollowTheLeader: Clearly inspired by ''Film/{{Them}}'', '''the''' big-bug film of TheFifties.
6* HilariousInHindsight: [[Film/TransformersDarkOftheMoon Chicago is the scene of a confrontation between the army and huge monsters.]] [[Film/Rampage2018 Twice!]]
7* NightmareRetardant: Unlike ants or spiders or most other bugs, grasshoppers really ''don't'' have much visceral horror to them.
8* SoOkayItsAverage: An inferior imitation of ''Film/{{Them}}'', to be sure, but it's better than most ''[=MST3K=]'' movies and is even enjoyable in its own right.
9* SpecialEffectFailure
10** The giant grasshoppers crawling up the buildings are clearly actually just regular sized grasshoppers crawling across a postcard. In at least one shot (called out by [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow]]) one of the grasshoppers is quite clearly ''walking off the edge of the building on the card''.
11** Every time someone drives down that Certain Stretch Of Road (the dead giveaway would be the RearProjection, which shows the same two cars perpetually going the opposite direction).

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