Them! (1954)
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
Sombre, kinetic, measured sci-fi / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.
Our read · Them! (1954) (1954) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Them!
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The reading.
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