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- Them! James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon. 83 votes. A titanic-sized dose of fear is injected into this classic black-and-white flick about gigantic irradiated ants wreaking havoc in New Mexico.
- The Fly. Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz. 101 votes. In this chilling, yet poignant tale, a brilliant scientist's experiment goes horrifically wrong, leaving him with some truly diabolical DNA from a common house fly.
- Mimic. Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin. 78 votes. Just when things couldn't get more sinister, along comes a film that combines diabolical genetic engineering with humanity's innate fear of creepy-crawlies.
- The Fly. David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price. 65 votes. This pulse-pounding classic tells the tale of a scientist whose failed teleportation experiment leaves him with far more than he bargained for: a fly's head and appendage.
Mar 15, 2021 · Yes, David Cronenberg's 1986 masterpiece of DNA-crossing grotesqueries, The Fly, was indeed voted the best of the killer insect horror movies. And anyone who has ever witnessed the descent of Seth ...
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I’ve often thought of myself as the world’s biggest fan of animal attack movies, but if I’m being honest, that honor should actually go to Mister Bert I. Gordon. His particular niche was movies about larger than life animals, and his filmography includes the likes of Beginning of the End (giant grasshoppers!), Attack of the Puppet People (giant cat...
I’ve written more extensively about this under-appreciated gem elsewhere, but the short version is that Bug remains an effectively creepy slice of bug horror. They’re cockroaches, and if that’s not icky enough, they’re also prone to chewing your flesh, starting deadly fires, and spelling our ominous warnings — in English! — on the wall with their b...
You know what they say… if you’ve seen one movie about roaches on a list, there’s bound to be more. So here’s the second! (And spoiler, a third is directly below.) This entry sees science go wrong again, sending a horde of the buggers into the nightmares of a small town’s unlucky residents, and while they’re nasty creatures even when normal, they’r...
Cockroaches are nasty, fat, not-really-little beasts covered in thick armor. You see one in your place, and your skin automatically ignites in gooseflesh. Now, let’s give them a deadly disease requiring a cure that ultimately transforms them into apocalypse-ushering titans. Yeah, it makes sense. That tracks with their gnarly biology. Guillermo del ...
Now, here’s a film that makes good on the promise of its title! What’s the matter? Afraid of worms!? This is a Roger Corman movie, with special make-up effects by Rick Baker, that premiered at Cannes, about millions of carnivorous worms descending on a small town in Georgia after knocked-down power lines call them to the surface and instill them wi...
- Phase IV (1974) Stream now on Kanopy. Phase IV goes far beyond what is considered a normal horror movie about creepy crawling bugs vs. humans. Every frame of the film is soaked in abstract 1970s motifs made famous in films like Zardoz, The Andromeda Strain and Logan's Run, but the premise is truly interesting.
- The Swarm (1978) Rent now on Apple TV & Prime Video. Who knew that killer bees could cause mass disaster on a biblical scale? That's exactly the question posed in The Swarm, a classic action horror flick starring Michael Caine about a massive swarm of killer bees who have made man their ultimate target.
- The Deadly Mantis (1957) Not available to stream. 1950s monster movies took a detour from the nuclear warfare theme with The Deadly Mantis. In this story, a gigantic mantis is unearthed from millions of years of suspended animation in the polar ice caps to wreak havoc on Washington, D.C.
- Eight Legged Freaks (2002) Stream now on HBO Max. This comedy horror film starring David Arquette tried to capitalize on the high-energy laughs and scares of Arachnophobia, but on a larger scale.
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- The Fly (1958) Living with a housefly is annoying. Living with a housefly that happens to be your spouse is terrifying. Filmed within a year after the short story and namesake by French-British writer George Langelaan was published, this insect invasion hits home as a dark comedy in the guise of a nuclear family dynamic.
- Mimic (1997) Guillermo del Toro directs this man-made monster, a crossbreed between a mantis and a termite genetically engineered to kill off an invasive species that carries a disease that puts the child population at risk.
- Them! (1954) Another group of irradiated ant colonies the size of tanks threaten the Earth's population in this nuclear wartime monster movie. The writing and action are compelling, the ant models are menacing and convincing, and the shock factor is a great companion piece to the Ray Bradbury-inspired The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms made the year before.
- Bug (1975) Based on the novel The Hephaestus Plague by Thomas Page, cockroaches crawl out of the Earth from an earthquake that can start fires by rubbing their posterior appendages together.
Jan 17, 2022 · When it comes to insects in horror and science fiction, we all know the king-sized variety: the oversized ants in "Them!", the monster-god Mothra in Toho's Godzilla series, and the invading "Bugs ...
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The only good bug is a dead bug! Also, as a sidenote, hands down the scariest insect related thing in any film ever, in my opinion, is the pit scene in King Kong. Fuck those bugs, man, jesus. Both Peter Jackson's Kong, and Kong:Skull Island's best scenes are about bugs.
