![]() ![]() Eventually, the big bug trend died down until the 1970s, when a groundswell of films sought to wring fear from the audience's innate phobias of all things with more than two legs. This style was later parodied to perfection as Mant!, the movie-within-a-movie in Joe Dante's 1993 cult classic Matinee. Gordon never met a bug he couldn't turn into a major menace with films like Earth vs. ![]() In the 1950s atomic era, a whole bumper crop of giant insects menaced drive-in screens in B-pictures like The Black Scorpion, The Deadly Mantis, Them!, The Fly, Tarantula, Monster From Green Hell, Attack of the Giant Leeches, and The Strange World of Planet X. Whether you're terrified of insects or merely tolerant of them, there's no denying that movies have the power to make crawlies creepy. "It's long been Hollywood's contention that the mere threat of having an insect crawl upon your face is enough to make a grown man beg for mercy and tell every secret he ever knew." - Lawrence Pressman, The Hellstrom Chronicle
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