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Village of the Giants
Ten reasons why 1965's Village of the Giants is one of the best movies ever made:
- It's written, produced and directed by the infamous Bert I. Gordon, who was responsible for The Amazing Colossal Man, Attack of the Puppet People, and Empire of the Ants.
- It stars Tommy Kirk and Beau Bridges.
- It claims to be based on "Food of the Gods" by H.G. Wells.
- It features bad teens eating pink goo cooked up by Kirk's girlfriend's little brother, "Genius" — who's played by Ron Howard! — then growing to enormous size, wearing curtains from the local theater as togas, and terrorizing the town.
- The scene where the Beau Brummels play in the town's discotheque, and the gyrating teenagers are joined by giant dancing ducks — which doesn't freak anybody out.
- Gigantic Beau Bridges in a red velvet toga, eating from tiny fried chicken buckets and drinking miniature Cokes.
- The sight of a normal-sized guy hanging from a giant pair of fake breasts that are supposedly attached to actress Joy Harmon (who's most famous as the girl washing her car in Cool Hand Luke.)
- Lots of go-go dancing, courtesy of choreographer Toni Basil — who plays a character named "Red,", and has one line plus a hoochie-coochie scene where she dances for the giant teens as they eat from their tiny chicken buckets.
- Tommy Kirk battling, and electrocuting, a giant tarantula.
- GIANT MUTANT TEENAGE BOOBIES!
MGM offers Village of the Giants as part of their "Midnite Movies" imprint in a standard ratio (1.33:1) and with audio in Dolby 2.0 mono. Subtitles in French and Spanish. Keep-case.
—Dawn Taylor
