John Sayles on BEGINNING OF THE END

TFH welcomes John Sayles to the ranks of Grindhouse Gurus. This nervy 1957 trailer acts like Bert I. Gordon's shoestring ripoff of previous giant bug movies is some kind of‚ innovative breakthrough! It does boast two '50s sci fi icons in the cast (Morris Ankrum and Tom Browne Henry) in their‚ signature roles as tough minded military officers, and‚ became a major component of Joe Dante and Jon Davison's The Movie Orgy.

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[Tchernobog]

the climbing building scene so iconic, hey they made the main woman shut her mouth in the last act

[Titanberg]

Love that movie poster! Giant grasshoppers with cat eyes and.... teeth????

[tskmaster]

I knew this movie was derivative of Them as its based on a line from that movie... among so many other things... but I never saw that poster before.
Those "grasshoppers" couldn't be any more like the ants from Them's poster art. If they drew actual ants, it would be LESS like Them's poster art.

[jackgrattan]

C'mon, John. Cleveland jokes? Really? In this day and age, most would agree that dropping a bomb on Chicago would at least put a dent in illegal gun sales.

[jder]

Cold John very Cold, If they dropped a Atomic bomb on Cleveland it wouldn't matter, that's cold LOL !