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THEM!
(1954)
SPECIES:
Ants (again).
MUTATED BY:
Atomic testing in the New Mexico desert.
IN DANGER:
James Whitmore,
Gunsmoke
’s James
Arness, a young Leonard Nimoy, and eventually, Los
Angeles.
SOLUTION:
Bomb the nest with cyanide gas.
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINK
(1957)
SPECIES:
A sinister spider and a terrifying tabby cat.
MUTATED BY:
Everyday guy is shrunk by radioactive mist.
IN DANGER:
Our pint-sized hero.
SOLUTION:
“That Existence begins and ends is Man’s concept, not
Nature’s... To God there is no zero, I still exist!” Ergo, he is tiny, he is mad,
and he will survive.
Size Does Matter
THE DEADLY MANTIS
(1957)
SPECIES:
A prehistoric Praying Mantis.
MUTATED BY:
Apparently they were all this big once, but atomic
testing is still to blame when a nuclear explosion releases it from its
icy arctic prison.
IN DANGER:
A bunch of Greenland Eskimos, the Washington
monument and ultimately, New York.
SOLUTION:
Gas the beast in the Lincoln tunnel.