# Them! (1954)

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**Runtime**: 94 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Horror
**Directed by**: Gordon Douglas
**Written by**: Ted Sherdeman, George Worthing Yates
**Starring**: James Whitmore, James Arness, Joan Weldon, Edmund Gwenn, Onslow Stevens, Sean McClory

> *A horror horde of crawl-and-crush giants clawing out of the earth from mile-deep catacombs!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

New Mexico dawn, 1954. A rancher’s pickup finds a lone picnic basket gutted by pincers in the dust. Arthropods the size of locomotives chew through cinderblock; a little girl speaks in screams that aren’t hers. A skeptical entomologist, his daughter, a trooper who knows ants from holes, and a G-man who still thinks communists built this will have to pry open a nest beneath the Los Alamos water tower before the prairie swarms.

**Mood tags**: dread

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