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You're right, "Last Race" was later used as the main title music for Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino's half of the 2007 double feature Grindhouse. Immediately, the rebellious teens begin to grow. And what makes the ‘good’ kids so noble, anyway? He then shatters a dangling lightbulb to drop the open bulb socket onto the wet floor and electrocute the creature; which somehow completely disappears in the very next shot (don’t ask how; the movie is chock full of bizarre sh!t like that…). TITLE: Village Of The Giants. At this point, we’re supposed to bear in mind that this opportunist, exploitative, hyper-capitalistic little creep is one of ‘the good guys.’  These good guys now have a giant cat, a giant dog and two giant ducks that somehow wander off the premises (they disappear only moments after they grew…you’d think they’d be rather difficult to lose track of, but I guess not). This also goes for later, when he is lying on the ground and the townspeople are trying to tie him up. Village of the Giants Teens part 1. You can use a text widget to display text, links, images, HTML, or a combination of these. The teens bursting out of their clothes, for example; it’s almost like an embarrassing Freudian nightmare of what younger children fear a growth spurt will be like. ( Log Out /  This film is a weird hybrid of 1950s’ atomic-giants-on-the-loose movies with 1960s teenage beach party flicks. As kids, we used to watch this movie on Sunday afternoon television, for chrissakes (!). Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Mike breaks an overhead water pipe (while hanging from it) and wets the floor the spider is standing on. To know when people like your submissions, answer your questions, reply to you, etc., please, When the girl on the motorcycle is trying to tie, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring mistakes, 30 Biggest mistakes in the Star Wars movies, The biggest mistakes in the Harry Potter movies, The 20 biggest mistakes in The Wizard of Oz, 25 mistakes you never noticed in great movies, 40 biggest mistakes in The Big Bang Theory. On stage, the Daft Punk music begin to play to the crowd, as a girl named Rose dances in one of the areas above the crowd. It still feels like a middle-aged writer trying to emulate ‘these kids today.’. During the dancing, Merrie grabs a townie (Johnny Crawford of “The Rifleman” TV show) and leaves him hanging onto her giant bra for dear life (I’m not making this stuff up; look ^). The teens drop a bombshell on the sheriff by revealing that they have his daughter as a hostage, and that her safety is dependent on the town’s cooperation. What I actually like about “Village of the Giants”: *  Jack Nitzche’s musical score (not the songs). Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Directed by Bert I. Gordon. The odd tonal mismatch  between science-fiction giant monster flick and beach party movie just doesn’t work. They wouldn't even fit through the door if they could open it. GENRE: Science Fiction and Comedy. arrive at the theater to confront to Forever 21 Goliaths and order them to leave town. The sheriff and the townsfolk run the delinquent octad out of town…, On the way out of town, the teens come across their wrecked T-bird and are met by an unseen, deep-voiced male who asks them if Hainesville is “the place with the goo?”  Fred assures them that it is (even though the goo is gone). Back in those days, if it had monsters, or giants or some other weird crazy thing in it, we watched; and we didn’t care about much else…. The now down-to-earth rebels desperately try to cover themselves up with their now-oversized clothing. Add more and vote on your favourites! ( Log Out /  but there are nagging issues even within the movie’s own silly, natural laws-defying universe: *  The scale of the giants is all over the place. (That last little gem was from the ‘good’ guy Mike). Embassy Pictures Starring: Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Ron Howard, Joe Turkel, Beau Bridges Also Starring: Orangey Directed by: Bert I. Gordon Synopsis: A gang of teenage delinquents who love to dance and cause trouble grow to enormous proportions thanks to the formula created by a brainy kid they call Genius (Ron Howard) and proceed to hold a small town […] Genius, of course, tells her everything…. The NIGHT CLUB The place is jumping with teenagers all over the dance floor. This song "Woman" by the Beau Brummels is used to the hilt, but that's why it's important to have good music!! It all begins when a familiar–looking boy genius cooks up a formula that causes BIG trouble in what becomes the “Village of the Giants”! Though questionably credited as being 'inspired' by the H.G. Village of the Giants (1965), by Peter Bebergal [ Video Link ] My parents were pretty good about indulging my obsession with monster movies. After the giants arrive at the party, two cops arrive on the scene and don't notice the giants until after they've exited the car, and the partygoers point them out. 523: Village of the Giants I suppose it’s not fair to talk about Bert I. Gordon fighting to stay relevant into the 60’s. *  An absolute lack of ANY diverse casting. Elsa’s bikini top pops off, Merrie’s sweater bursts open, Fred’s shirt splits apart, etc. Anyway, Genius concocts a formula he calls ‘goo’ that looks like a pink Play-Doh milkshake (and about as appetizing, I’m sure). They consume the substance, and then use their new-found stature to take over the town.… With Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Ron Howard, Joe Turkel. The whole duck-dancing sequence in Village of the Giants was just creepy and wrong in SO many ways. If those scenes, and the various non-sequitor musical numbers were cut? The group is led by big man off campus, “Fred,” played by a very young Beau Bridges (Lloyd’s son, Jeff’s brother) and his lusty, busty, crazy-eyed girlfriend “Merrie”, played by Joy Harmon (better known to movie fans of a certain age as ‘that car washing girl’ in 1967’s “Cool Hand Luke”). “This scene was awful,” exclaimed Joy Harmon. He was a character…. They wouldn't even fit through the door if they could open it. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Village Of The Giants -- (Movie Clip) Let's Dance! You can unsubscribe at any time. First the pet dog eats the formula. Add more and vote on your favourites! One of the girls in Fred’s gang, Elsa (Gail Gilmore) is sunbathing nearby and decides to woo the 10-year old boy (yikes, Mrs. “Village of the Giants” (VOTG) was one of Gordon’s more unusual films that was a bit outside of the director’s typical monster-movie stable. The songs aren’t entirely horrible, they only serve to stall the hell out of an already unevenly-paced movie. Then two giant ducks show up in a dance hall and start dancing (no I'm not making this up). The Text Widget allows you to add text or HTML to your sidebar. The dance sequences feel like interminable script-padding. A camp, inconsequential little movie that tries to straddle the line between giant atomic monster flicks and teenage beach party movies, with that mesmerizing Jack Nitzche score. Wells Music by: Jack Nitzsche, The Beau Brummels Cast: Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Joy Harmon, Robert Random, Tisha Sterling, Toni Basil, Ron Howard Berkeley Productions, Embassy Pictures, Joseph… Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. In the dance hall scene, you can see the … I realize that the movie is a fantasy, so I won’t address the multitude of basic, 7th-grade scientific contradictions throughout (such as how the giants aren’t suddenly crushed by their newfound mass, etc.) After his friends free Nancy and the sheriff’s daughter, Mike takes to shooting at giant-Fred with a slingshot (really!?) The special effects are ludicrous, but the dance sequences—filmed in slow motion to Jack Nitzsche's puonding dance beat—are some kind of weird cinematic bliss. Nobody seems to think that it is at all that big of a deal. And while the rebel teens’ blatantly sexual nature is clearly desiderated by most, they’re also often admonished by the ‘law-and-order’ teens who only want to protect the status quo. Nobody seems to think that it is at all that big of a deal. Despite those moments throughout that are intentionally or unintentionally amusing, there are large stretches of the movie that are quite dull. Most of the kids in attendance seem strangely unfazed by the sight of car-sized ducks having their tails yanked by unseen wires (no movie animal protection in those days). ( Log Out /  We see early on that the only thing on Mike’s mind is to exploit and make money off of the goo. Throughout the movie, the twentysomething-aged ‘teens’ are being virtually ogled by the camera, as there is a lot of skin for a ‘60s Disney-style family movie. *  The movie is very sexual, yet oddly puritanical. The dance sequences feel like interminable script-padding. "The Spider", and "Beginning of the End.". Change ), This is a text widget. ... One of the better bits of eye candy in this film comes about in the scene in which Crawford’s character gets trapped on the bra straps of one of the giant girls. The next day, the sheriff and Mike (was he newly deputized?) … observations from over a half century of geekiness. "The Spider", and "Beginning of the End. But then again, in a movie that’s all over the map-crazy like this, what’s off the table, right? Missed riffing opportunity: there’s no response from Mike and the Bots when Tommy says, “You don’t have to be. They then begin dancing in the mud to the film’s rockin’ music score, which is heard throughout the movie. It’s no surprise that latter-day exploitation filmmaker Quentin Tarantino actually used Nitzche’s VOTG main theme as the title music to his 2007 Grindhouse epic, “Death Proof”, and it fit like a charm. Village of the Giants fails the Bechdel Test. His deep, slow-strumming, Dick Dale-style surf-rock guitar musings are actually quite hypnotic. *  Not ONE person in all of Hainesville could’ve phoned, radioed or simply WALKED into the next town for help?? Comment. The Spider" aka. And of course, we know that these so-called teens are bad apples because well, they drink Blatz beer, blast their car’s AM radio, and dance in the mud. The teens proceed to fashion togas and bikinis out of a convenient nearby storage bin of curtain fabric, and then decide raise a bit of hell with the townsfolk…. When the girl on the motorcycle is trying to tie Mike's legs together by driving around them in circles, his legs are obviously props. The cat appearing in this film was named Orangey (later renamed Minerva), and Village of the Giants was the second time he played the role of a cat larger than a human, the first being Scott Carey's (actor Grant Williams) pet in The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). It’s pretty clear that about half of the movie’s budget went into this scene as well; as a variety of vintage FX are used, such as rear-projection, rapid-fire editing (to prevent any overly risqué exposures) and scale miniature sets. Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Fred (Beau Bridges) figures the giantism is a ticket to quick fortune. Musical numbers by such ‘60s pop stars as Freddy Cannon (of “Palisades Park” fame), Mike Clifford and The Beau Brummels (a very poor man’s Beatles). Village Of The Giants ... Then two giant ducks show up in a dance hall and start dancing (no I'm not making this up). They wouldn't even fit through the door if they could open it. Release Date: October 20th, 1965 Directed by: Bert I. Gordon Written by: Bert I. Gordon, Alan Caillou Based on: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H.G. Cozy up to Mike and Nancy and kiss the secret formula right out of them. The Bots were right: Beau Bridges shouldn't shimmy. And of course, after the giants revert back to their normal sizes, their makeshift curtain-material clothing still fits far too snugly, considering these kids were previously the size of buildings…, *  The movie’s opening credits state that Alan Caillou’s screenplay is based on H.G. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. They boast of their power and dance a lot, mostly for the heck of it. This also goes for later, when he is lying on the ground and the townspeople are trying to tie him up. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Tisha Sterling, the very attractive daughter of Ann Sothern and Robert Sterling, had a Sharon Tate-vibe about her. ( Log Out /  In the next scene they are cooking the ducks on a spit for an outside bbq. Mike and his incompetent crew then try to take down Fred (or at least a pair of oddly-spaced fiberglass legs) using a motorcycle, lasso rope and a few George Barris custom surf wagons (WTF??). And busty Joy Harmon would help kickstart a lot of youngsters (including myself) into puberty. Soon Genius pedals up on his bike, holds up a jar of what looks like the pink goo, only to have it vanish in sunlight. The "Goo" was angel food cake, turned pink with food coloring. Nitzche would go on to score far better movies such as “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975), “An Officer and a Gentleman” (1982) and many others (including some incidental music for 1973’s horror classic, “The Exorcist”). At this point, Mike’s had enough of that; he smashes a chair across giant Fred’s  fiberglass-prop legs, and shouts, “Tell her to put him down, or I’ll beat the daylights out of ya!”  The next scene is arguably the best in the entire film as giant-Fred bitch slaps Tommy Kirk’s Mike into next week…. The car isn’t full of injured passengers, but rather eight lily-white rebel ’teens’ (each of whom looks to be about 25 or so) who fling open the doors of their wrecked car and immediately take to wild dancing in the rain & mud (which is usually my first reaction in a car wreck, of course…). 523 The riff: Sung by Crow as a very awkward kid attempts to dance and chew gum at the same time. 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It’s the kind of movie that drive-in theaters were created for (you could walk to the snack bar during the incessant singing or dancing bits, for example). Actually, "Giants" is about smart alecky teenagers in tight clothing who eat some of Opie's goo and turn big (I know, that doesn't sound any more pleasant). I’m guessing the movie would clock in at just over an hour. What’s supposed to be ‘David and Goliath’ comes off more like a half-asleep me at 3 am trying to kill a pesky fly. On that level is perhaps where the movie works best. When his legs are in shot, they look fake, and never moves an inch. Bert I. Gordon was a famous B-movie director who created a bunch of big monster movies such as Earth Vs.The Spider and The Amazing Colossal Man in the 1950’s, but by the early 1960’s that genre was dying a quick death. Woman Woman with Dialogue Fred then cuts the Play-Doh into eighths, and after a bit of taunting, each of the teens takes their slice and eats it…. One would think the cops should have seen the giants on the drive up. Robinson!) YEAR: 1965. …and I’d safely bet that the scene that follows is the sole reason this movie was made. Anyway, the kids finish their spastic dancing and decide to raise a bit of hell in the nearest town, Hainesville (which looks like every neighborhood in every sitcom made in the ‘50s and ‘60s). Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. Edit them in the Widget section of the. Luckily, Genius comes to the rescue, and releases a giant cloud of mustard gas-like vapor into the atmosphere (oh yeah; I’m sure that’s perfectly safe) which immediately shrinks the giant rebels back to human-size; even giant-Merrie, who was unconscious only minutes before. Revealing mistake: When the girl on the motorcycle is trying to tie Mike's legs together by driving around them in circles, his legs are obviously props. “It’s either pancake mix… or an octopus.”, “Baby, you make me wish I was your size again.”, “I don’t like (good girls); they talk too much… so, stop talking too much,”. There is an embarrassingly silly scene where a giant-sized duck invades the dancehall and starts dancing too. Frank in his underwear is as upsetting as Tommy Kirk in tiny shorts. Rather than be startled, most of the teens join in and groove along with it. When his legs are in shot, they look fake, and never moves an inch. There’s even a bit of social satire attempted, as giant-Fred announces to the sheriff that the townspeople all have “freedom of speech… so long as we approve of what you say.”   Nice try, but I sincerely doubt that first amendment rights are the first thing on the rebel kids’ minds, and more like the screenwriter’s. 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