At the height of the
“creature cycle” (or “monster cycle,” take your pick) of the late ‘50s there
was one little indie film that delivered quite the bang for the buck. That was director Ray Kellogg’s summer of
1959 sci-fi thriller, The Killer Shrews, which is one of
those movies that cost next to nothing to make, but lives on over a
half-century later as an example of what can be done (on a shoestring) to stir
up chills and thrills among its intended audience.
Word arrived this week
that the Film Chest is ready with a newly-prepared digital transfer of The
Killer Shrews. The street date
is Nov. 11 and if the film transfer is a sharp as the new packaging, then this
is a keeper!
The story is deceptively
simple. A group of people (the food
source) are stranded on a remote island where a science experiment (all with
the best of intensions of course) has gotten out of control. Tiny shrews have mutated into ever-growing
carnivores that hunt in packs and have a taste for human flesh.
And, to make matters worse
(as if it can get any worse) they are growing exponentially and the only food
supply left are the survivors boarded up in a house … surrounded by starving
shrews. Yummy!
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