Village of the Giants (1965)
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Blu-rayKino Lorber Studio ClassicsUnited StatesRegion A2022
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VHSEmbassy Home VideoUnited States1985
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Long before he directed Apollo 13 and won an Academy Award, eleven-year-old Ron Howard mixed a batch of bright pink goo in his basement and turned a gang of teenagers into thirty-foot delinquents.
Bikini-clad giants doing the Watusi in the town square. A monster duck crashing the dance hall. A teenage uprising whose central demand is a nine o'clock curfew for grown-ups.
VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS (1965) is a teensploitation comedy from Bert I. Gordon, the low-budget giant-monster specialist nicknamed Mr. B.I.G. after his own initials. It claims to be based on H.G. Wells, who might have wanted his name back.
The casting is a Hollywood-offspring roll call, as if the budget stretched to the parents' names but not the parents: Lloyd Bridges' son Beau as the gang's leader, Mickey Rooney's son, Ann Sothern's daughter, and young Howard, then still Opie on The Andy Griffith Show.
The dancer in the cage is Toni Basil, seventeen years before "Mickey." The score is by Jack Nitzsche, the man who helped build Phil Spector's wall of sound.
The goo, for the record, was angel food cake mix dyed pink.
About the Film
All the kids grow 10 feet tall... and TAKE OVER!
- Directed By
- Bert I. Gordon
- Runtime
- 81 minutes
- Released
- October 20, 1965
- Country
- United States of America
- Starring
- Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Joy Harmon, Robert Random
More Credits
- Genres
- Science Fiction
- Language
- English
- Origin
- US
- Studios
- Berkeley Productions, Joseph E. Levine Productions, Embassy Pictures Corporation
- Written By
- H. G. Wells, Alan Caillou
- Produced By
- Bert I. Gordon
- Cinematography
- Paul Vogel
- Music
- Jack Nitzsche
- Also Starring
- Gail Gilmore, Tisha Sterling, Tim Rooney, Kevin O'Neal, Charla Doherty
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Svengoolie is playing this on his show on Saturday
As mentioned on MST3K, Lil Genius riding on his bicycle while spraying the human growth antidote looked like an amateur mosquito control service.
Also dig that clever twist ending. With a shovel, that is.
I low-key love this giddy, stupid, deliriously bonkers trifle. I can mount no artistic defense, but it was a big part of my childhood and was probably, for better and for worse, formative in my overall tastes. I suspect it served as a gateway drug for John Waters, Tim Burton, the Cramps, and the B-52s.
Joy Harmon as one of the giant teenyboppers. Soon she would have a small but significant part in “Cool Hand Luke.” She eventually left acting to bake and sell cookies and other confectionery in Glendale, CA.
Uh oh, someone watched Svengoolie 🤣
Bobby Keller Ha, pure coincidence! Something in the air!
Bobby Keller I love this ridiculous thing!
Anywhere But Hollywood it’s the universe telling me to watch this movie 🤣
Dang angel food cake sounds good!
It’s a campy hoot!
All I remember is those giant dancing ducks. Shaking their tail feathers
Hmmm…Willow.
Hmm…. Cake.
– Homer Simpson
loved that movie when i was a kid…very trippy…
Horrible movie.
At least viewers got to see The Beau Brummels. A great band that shamelessly turned up in terrible movies, and even on The Flintstones as The Beau Brummelstones.
“Dig that nitty gritty!”
Really bad movie. Must have been a good paycheck for Tommy Kirk, Beau Bridges and Ron Howard.
Tony Basil was also the choreographer- she had a long prosperous career as a choreographer before her “ one hit wonder” most people only know her from. One of the choreographers and dancers in “Viva Las Vegas” also.