Sentences with phrase «giant insect movies»

As far as 1950s giant insect movies go, this effort by the director of Creature of the Black Lagoon and Incredible Shrinking Man amongst others isn't all that bad.

Not exact matches

It's the first movie to feature giant insects (ants exposed to atomic radiation, in this case) threatening humankind.

Godzilla has a fairly small role in this rendition; there are a couple other giant beasts, huge insects, dubbed MUTO (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Object), which dominate the movie's story arc.

The script by del Toro and Matthew Robbins — and, based on the advance material at the time, Steven Soderbergh and John Sayles in uncredited assists — manages to cleverly incorporate elements from mad - scientist movies, giant - insect flicks and traditional monster - on - the - loose tales, and the mere thought of roach - like critters the size of Sylvester Stallone will unnerve anyone with even a hint of a bug phobia.

The filmmaker, of course, has examined all things otherworldly in his 25 years of making movies; from the vampire drama Cronos and mutant insect chiller Mimic and Hellboy films, to his Gothic horror films Pan's Labyrinth and Crimson Peak, and giant monster epic Pacific Rim.

The idea is essentially that an alien menace is dead set on invading Earth with giant ants, spiders and other creepy insects, also throwing in giant robots and flying saucers into the mix for good measure to make things even more B - movie - like.

That certainly has not changed at all this time around with the old B - movie feel still in tact, as you face off against giant insect thats look like they crawled right off of the big screen from a 1950s science fiction movie.