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** Fess Parker as the pilot-witness; landed him his role as Davey Crockett.
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** Fess Parker as the pilot-witness; when Walt Disney saw his performance it landed him his role as Davey Crockett.
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* FairForItsDay: For the most part, in its depiction of the younger Dr. Medford, the film was positively enlightened. She's a competent professional who ably assists in dealing with the film's giant mutant ants, including going down with the male (non-scientist) heroes into a gassed colony to make sure the inhabitants are all dead. She does scream once, justifiably when she abruptly and unexpectedly comes face to face with one of the creatures. But beyond that moment she also never falls into the DistressedDamsel category. And while she and Bob flirt, the movie doesn't actually pair them up.
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* FairForItsDay: For the most part, in its depiction of the younger Dr. Medford, the film was positively enlightened. She's a competent professional who ably assists in dealing with the film's giant mutant ants, including going down with the male (non-scientist) heroes into a gassed colony to make sure the inhabitants are all dead. She does scream once, justifiably when she abruptly and unexpectedly comes face to face with one of the creatures. But beyond that moment she also never falls into the DistressedDamsel DamselInDistress category. And while she and Bob flirt, the movie doesn't actually pair them up.
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* FairForItsDay: For the most part, in its depiction of the younger Dr. Medford, the film was positively enlightened. She's a competent professional who ably assists in dealing with the film's giant mutant ants, including going down with the male (non-scientist) heroes into a gassed colony to make sure the inhabitants are all dead. She does scream once, when she abruptly and unexpectedly comes face to face with one of the creatures, but beyond that moment she also never falls into the DistressedDamsel category. And while she and Bob flirt, the movie doesn't actually pair them up.
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* FairForItsDay: For the most part, in its depiction of the younger Dr. Medford, the film was positively enlightened. She's a competent professional who ably assists in dealing with the film's giant mutant ants, including going down with the male (non-scientist) heroes into a gassed colony to make sure the inhabitants are all dead. She does scream once, justifiably when she abruptly and unexpectedly comes face to face with one of the creatures, but creatures. But beyond that moment she also never falls into the DistressedDamsel category. And while she and Bob flirt, the movie doesn't actually pair them up.
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** Particularly impressive is the fact that Dr. Medford asserts her authority as an expert (specifically, the only expert in the area who is sufficiently physically fit to enter the ant's nest) to override Bob's attempt to get her to StayInTheKitchen, and even barks orders to the men at one point. This sort of behavior is often used to turn a female character into a HateSink even today, but she is portrayed as entirely justified and in the right to do so, and remains a sympathetic character.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: The protagonists use radio communication in the third act, which takes place in the storm drains of Los Angeles. Radios do not work underground, especially in reinforced concrete tunnels.
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* TheWoobie: Mrs Lodge in the third act, who loses her husband and spends some time experiencing the worst kind of AdultFear - that her two sons are missing and might be dead. [[spoiler: Thankfully they're reunited]].
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* TheWoobie: Mrs Lodge in the third act, who loses her husband and spends some time experiencing the worst kind of AdultFear concerns - that her two sons are missing and might be dead. [[spoiler: Thankfully they're reunited]].
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* FairForItsDay: For the most part, in its depiction of the younger Dr. Medford, the film was positively enlightened. She's a competent professional who ably assists in dealing with the film's giant mutant ants, including going down with the male (non-scientist) heroes into a gassed colony to make sure the inhabitants are all dead. She does scream once, when she abruptly and unexpectedly comes face to face with one of the creatures, but beyond that moment she also never falls into the DistressedDamsel category.
* OneSceneWonder: Fess Parker as the pilot-witness; landed him his role as Davey Crockett.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: The protagonists use radio communication in the third act, which takes place in the storm drains of Los Angeles. Radios do not work underground, especially in reinforced concrete tunnels.
* FairForItsDay: For the most part, in its depiction of the younger Dr. Medford, the film was positively enlightened. She's a competent professional who ably assists in dealing with the film's giant mutant ants, including going down with the male (non-scientist) heroes into a gassed colony to make sure the inhabitants are all dead. She does scream once, when she abruptly and unexpectedly comes face to face with one of the creatures, but beyond that moment she also never falls into the DistressedDamselcategory.
category. And while she and Bob flirt, the movie doesn't actually pair them up.
*OneSceneWonder: GutPunch: [[spoiler: Ben Peterson's death in the final battle is quite unexpected, and really sells that AnyoneCanDie against those ants]].
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** Fess Parker as the pilot-witness; landed him his role as DaveyCrockett.Crockett.
** Sandy Drescher has minimal screen time as the little girl who kicks off the plot, and only speaks one word in the whole film. But she makes an impression that makes one forget her screen time is so small.
* {{Padding}}: Ben and Bob spend the latter part of the second act interviewing various witnesses and taking quite some time to get simple information on where the ants could be. While the scenes with Mrs Lodge do establish tension and urgency to find her children, the other witnesses take a while to get to the point.
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** Fess Parker as the pilot-witness; landed him his role as Davey
** Sandy Drescher has minimal screen time as the little girl who kicks off the plot, and only speaks one word in the whole film. But she makes an impression that makes one forget her screen time is so small.
* {{Padding}}: Ben and Bob spend the latter part of the second act interviewing various witnesses and taking quite some time to get simple information on where the ants could be. While the scenes with Mrs Lodge do establish tension and urgency to find her children, the other witnesses take a while to get to the point.
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** The death of Ed Blackburn too, since we spend so much time with him at the beginning, it's sad to see him go as the SacrificialLamb to tip Ben off.
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** [[FriendToAllChildren Petersen's]] [[HeroicSacrifice death]], even if he did save the boys in the process.
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** [[spoiler: [[FriendToAllChildren Petersen's]] [[HeroicSacrifice death]], even if he did save the boys in the process.]]
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film was one of the first to use giant monsters as an allegory for nuclear war, and it reflects the post World War II anxieties about what radiation could cause. It's said that the ants only mutated relatively recently, after the initial atomic bomb tests, placing the story squarely in the early 50s. Ben and Bob are likewise shown being involved in military actions, operating weapons easily and knowing the correct procedures; this is because they would have been the right age to have served in World War II the previous decade and it would be taken as a given that they would have the proper training already.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: ''Twentieth Century'' magazine accused Warner Bros of using the film to suggest that the ants were an allegory for communists and had to be exterminated.
* TheWoobie: Mrs Lodge in the third act, who loses her husband and spends some time experiencing the worst kind of AdultFear - that her two sons are missing and might be dead. [[spoiler: Thankfully they're reunited]].
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film was one of the first to use giant monsters as an allegory for nuclear war, and it reflects the post World War II anxieties about what radiation could cause. It's said that the ants only mutated relatively recently, after the initial atomic bomb tests, placing the story squarely in the early 50s. Ben and Bob are likewise shown being involved in military actions, operating weapons easily and knowing the correct procedures; this is because they would have been the right age to have served in World War II the previous decade and it would be taken as a given that they would have the proper training already.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: ''Twentieth Century'' magazine accused Warner Bros of using the film to suggest that the ants were an allegory for communists and had to be exterminated.
* TheWoobie: Mrs Lodge in the third act, who loses her husband and spends some time experiencing the worst kind of AdultFear - that her two sons are missing and might be dead. [[spoiler: Thankfully they're reunited]].
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** [[FriendToAllChildren Petersen's]] [[HeroicSacrifice death]], even if he did save the boys in the process.
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* TearJerker: When the little girl goes hysterical, you can't help but realize the poor kid is probably remembering her family being slaughtered right in front of her. Heartbreaking.
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** When the little girl goes hysterical, you can't help but realize the poor kid is probably remembering her family being slaughtered right in front of her. Heartbreaking.
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** And then there's the wife of Thomas Lodge, who sounds broken after learning of his death and their two sons' disappearance.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: A young Creator/LeonardNimoy has an uncredited part as a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant in the communications room
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* RetroactiveRecognition: A young Creator/LeonardNimoy has an uncredited part as a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant in the communications roomroom. Interestingly enough, this was shortly after Nimoy’s enlistment in the Army ended.
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* FairForItsDay: For the most part, in its depiction of the younger Dr. Medford, the film was positively enlightened. She's a competent professional who ably assists in dealing with the film's giant mutant ants, including going down with the male (non-scientist) heroes into a gassed colony to make sure the inhabitants are all dead. She does scream once, when she abruptly and unexpectedly comes face to face with one of the creatures, but beyond that moment she also never falls into the DistressedDamsel catagory.
* NothingIsScarier: Much of the beginning of the film shows only the aftermath of the ants' attacks. We see only the damage they have caused and a few bodies, one of which is filled with acid and chewed to bits. This helped build up their menace prior to them turning up on screen.
* NothingIsScarier: Much of the beginning of the film shows only the aftermath of the ants' attacks. We see only the damage they have caused and a few bodies, one of which is filled with acid and chewed to bits. This helped build up their menace prior to them turning up on screen.
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* FairForItsDay: For the most part, in its depiction of the younger Dr. Medford, the film was positively enlightened. She's a competent professional who ably assists in dealing with the film's giant mutant ants, including going down with the male (non-scientist) heroes into a gassed colony to make sure the inhabitants are all dead. She does scream once, when she abruptly and unexpectedly comes face to face with one of the creatures, but beyond that moment she also never falls into the DistressedDamsel catagory.
* NothingIsScarier: Much of the beginning of the film shows only the aftermath of the ants' attacks. We see only the damage they have caused and a few bodies, one of which is filled with acid and chewed to bits. This helped build up their menace prior to them turning up on screen.category.
* NothingIsScarier: Much of the beginning of the film shows only the aftermath of the ants' attacks. We see only the damage they have caused and a few bodies, one of which is filled with acid and chewed to bits. This helped build up their menace prior to them turning up on screen.
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* NightmareFuel: The ants can be this, depending on your view. As well as the blood-red title (in the actual film, no less) and [[FridgeHorror implications of the first scene.]]
** The trailer as well. "...with things so horrible...so terrifying...SO HIDEOUS! There is no word to describe ''THEM''."
** The trailer as well. "...with things so horrible...so terrifying...SO HIDEOUS! There is no word to describe ''THEM''."
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* TearJerker: When the little girl goes hysterical, you can't help but remember the poor kid is probably remembering her family being slaughtered right in front of her. Heartbreaking.
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* TearJerker: When the little girl goes hysterical, you can't help but remember the poor kid is probably remembering her family being slaughtered right in front of her. Heartbreaking.
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* FairForItsDay: For the most part, in its depiction of the younger Dr. Medford, the film was positively enlightened.
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* FairForItsDay: For the most part, in its depiction of the younger Dr. Medford, the film was positively enlightened. She's a competent professional who ably assists in dealing with the film's giant mutant ants, including going down with the male (non-scientist) heroes into a gassed colony to make sure the inhabitants are all dead. She does scream once, when she abruptly and unexpectedly comes face to face with one of the creatures, but beyond that moment she also never falls into the DistressedDamsel catagory.
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* NothingIsScarier: Much of the beginning of the film shows only the aftermath of the ants' attacks. We see only the damage they have caused and a few bodies, one of which is filled with acid and chewed to bits. This helped build up their menace prior to them turning up on screen.
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* HellIsThatNoise: The noise that the ants make is extremely chilling.
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* OneSceneWonder - Fess Parker as the pilot-witness; landed him his role as Davey Crockett.
* SpecialEffectsFailure - Compared to today's slick CGI, the ants look dated, but the giant models were impressive for their time, albeit slow-moving. One reason most of the following giant-thing movies were so bad is that pretty much all of them used clumsy super-imposed images to serve as the monster.
** NothingIsScarier - Much of the beginning of the film shows only the aftermath of the ants' attacks. We see only the damage they have caused and a few bodies, one of which is filled with acid and chewed to bits. This helped build up their menace prior to them turning up on screen.
* HellIsThatNoise - The noise that the ants make is extremely chilling.
* SpecialEffectsFailure - Compared to today's slick CGI, the ants look dated, but the giant models were impressive for their time, albeit slow-moving. One reason most of the following giant-thing movies were so bad is that pretty much all of them used clumsy super-imposed images to serve as the monster.
** NothingIsScarier - Much of the beginning of the film shows only the aftermath of the ants' attacks. We see only the damage they have caused and a few bodies, one of which is filled with acid and chewed to bits. This helped build up their menace prior to them turning up on screen.
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*SpecialEffectsFailure - SpecialEffectsFailure: Compared to today's slick CGI, the ants look dated, but the giant models were impressive for their time, albeit slow-moving. One reason most of the following giant-thing movies were so bad is that pretty much all of them used clumsy super-imposed images to serve as the monster.
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* NightmareFuel: The ants can be this, depending on your view. As well as the blood-red title (in the actual film, no less) and [[FridgeHorror implications of the first scene.]]
** The trailer as well. "...with things so horrible...so terrifying...SO HIDEOUS! There is no word to describe ''THEM''."
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That\'s a funny story, but Works pages are no place for personal discussion.
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* HellIsThatNoise - The noise that the ants make is extremely chilling. It also doesn't help that in the place I was growing up in, there were some tree frogs that made that exact same NOISE! Many sleepless summer nights went by and lets just leave it at that.
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* HellIsThatNoise - The noise that the ants make is extremely chilling. It also doesn't help that in the place I was growing up in, there were some tree frogs that made that exact same NOISE! Many sleepless summer nights went by and lets just leave it at that.
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* HellisthatNoise - The noise that the ants make is extremely chilling. It also doesn't help that in the place I was growing up in, there were some tree frogs that made that exact same NOISE! Many sleepless summer nights went by and lets just leave it at that.
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* HellisthatNoise HellIsThatNoise - The noise that the ants make is extremely chilling. It also doesn't help that in the place I was growing up in, there were some tree frogs that made that exact same NOISE! Many sleepless summer nights went by and lets just leave it at that.
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** NothingIsScarier - Much of the beginning of the film shows only the aftermath of the ants' attacks. We see only the damage they have caused and a few bodies, one of which is filled with acid and chewed to bits. This helped build up their menace prior to them turning up on screen.
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* BetterThanItSounds - Compared to most B-Monster Movies this is a very well made film with great acting, writing and effects for the time. Not to mention, the anti-nuclear message is actually well delivered and doesn't come off as {{Anvilicious}}.
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*HellisthatNoise - The noise that the ants make is extremely chilling. It also doesn't help that in the place I was growing up in, there were some tree frogs that made that exact same NOISE! Many sleepless summer nights went by and lets just leave it at that.
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* AccidentalNightmareFuel - True, YMMV, but stop and think for a minute about it. A nest of THOUSANDS of ants the size of an SUV that can kill you in almost half a dozen ways, may or may not be inhabiting your town's sewer system, and oh, almost forgot - if there isn't enough of their usual diet (sugar) to sustain the nest, don't expect them to angst about it. They'll just add ''you'' to their menu.
