Released in 1954, the movie Them! (with or without the exclamation point) was a very effective giant-monsters-on-the-loose feature of the type that was all the rage in the 1950’s.

This one, of course, involved giant ants and was played remarkably straight and, despite some by today’s standards not all that great effects, it built up a decent amount of suspense and thrills. A few years later Alfred Hitchcock would turn the creatures on the loose formula around and inside out with The Birds.