{"id":30473,"date":"2022-09-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30473"},"modified":"2022-09-07T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:44:02","slug":"the-killer-shrews-1959-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30473","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Killer Shrews&#8221; (1959) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z090722zview_killershrews.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"659\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Killer Shrews <\/strong><\/em>(1959)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Ray Kellogg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by:\u00a0 <strong>Jay Simms<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>James Best, Ingrid Goude<\/strong> and <strong>Ken Curtis<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Ravaging beasts feed on human flesh!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thorne Sherman (Best) and his partner dock their boat loaded with supplies at a remote island research base.\u00a0 Despite an approaching hurricane, Dr. Marlowe Craigis wants Sherman to leave the island immediately and to take his grown daughter, Ann (Goude) as well.\u00a0 Sherman\u00a0 says that they need to hunker down and he&#8217;ll take her after the storm passes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sherman soon learns that Dr. Marlowe&#8217;s experiments have created a breed of killer shrews that must eat twice their body weight daily in order to survive.\u00a0 The shrews&#8217; food supply has dwindled and now the shrews have their eyes on the humans!\u00a0 With teeth strong enough to eat through walls it is just a question of time until they get into the house&#8230; and then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Killer Shrews<\/em> is a low-budget horror film that makes the most of the small cast.\u00a0 Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the special effects.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very obvious that the shrews are sometimes puppets and other times dogs wearing wigs.\u00a0 There is a romance subplot that is low budget as well.\u00a0 A pre-<em>Gunsmoke<\/em>, Festus (Curtis)\u00a0 co-stars and produced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Killer Shrews<\/em> is watchable in the Saturday night movie presented by a Horror Host kind of way.\u00a0 In fact I remember first seeing <em>The Killer Shrews<\/em> on an episode of <em>Sammy Terry&#8217;s Nightmare Theater<\/em> back in the 60s.\u00a0 I was in third or fourth grade. I loved the movie and couldn&#8217;t wait to tell the old lady crossing guard all about it on Monday.\u00a0 I recently re-watched<em> The Killer Shrews<\/em> (this time hosted by Svengoolie).\u00a0 It brought back great memories and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d have liked it better if I was still in elementary school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><i>The Killer Shrews<\/i>\u00a0earns 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z090722zview_killershrews2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Killer Shrews (1959) Director: Ray Kellogg Screenplay by:\u00a0 Jay Simms Starring: James Best, Ingrid Goude and Ken Curtis Tagline:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30486,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473\/revisions\/30486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}