
The Killer Shrews
The Killer Shrews is a 1959 American independent science fiction horror film directed by Ray Kellogg, and produced by Ken Curtis and Gordon McLendon. The story follows a group of researchers who are trapped in their remote island compound overnight by a hurricane and find themselves under siege by their abnormally large and venomous mutant test subjects. The film stars James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis, McLendon, Baruch Lumet and "Judge" Henry Dupree.
Plot
Captain Thorne Sherman and first mate Rook Griswold deliver supplies by ship to a research compound on a remote island. The station inhabitants (consisting of scientist Marlowe Craigis, his research assistant Radford Baines, Marlowe's daughter Ann, her fiancé Jerry Farrel, and a servant Mario) give them a cold welcome and direct them to unload the ship and leave immediately with Ann, even though a hurricane is approaching the island. Thorne insists that the storm will be too severe for them to leave that night and so instead goes to the compound, while Rook stays with the boat.
More details
author | Jay Simms |
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director | Ray Kellogg |
editor | Aaron Stell |
genre | horror science fiction |
keywords | adobe build clothe coast guard drive-in drive-in theater duckwalking even hear human overpopulation id kill locked outside poison remote island shrew starve the giant gila monster |
musicBy | Emil Cadkin Harry Bluestone |
producer | Gordon McLendon Ken Curtis |
publisher | McLendon-Radio Pictures Distributing Company |
theme | independent mad scientist monster movie science fiction horror |