Village of the Giants

1965

Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 17% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 19% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 3.8/10 10 3090 3.1K

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Plot summary

"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty feet tall. They then take over control of the town by kidnapping the sheriff's daughter and dancing suggestively.

Director

Bert I. Gordon Photo
Bert I. Gordon

Top cast

Ron Howard Photo
Ron Howard as Genius
Beau Bridges Photo
Beau Bridges as Fred
Robert Random Photo
Robert Random as Rick
Gail Gilmore Photo
Gail Gilmore as Elsa
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745.49 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
TV-PG
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23.976 fps
1 hr 21 min
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1.35 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
TV-PG
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23.976 fps
1 hr 21 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Phills2 5 / 10

This movie has one strange flaw that doesn't

This movie has one strange flaw that doesn't make any sense. Whenever anything goes wrong, the guys and their girlfriends just stand up and start dancing. No one explains why their car has an accident on a flooded road, so they just get out of the car and start dancing. They seem to be immune to normal reactions when things go wrong. Otherwise, it does hit the note for being different. Theres also some goofy sounding music from the Beau Brummells and Freddy Boom Boom Cannon. Toni Basil arranged the dances, I guess they needed to get some mileage out of her work. Certainly it tries hard to tickle the funny bone.
Reviewed by Wuchak 7 / 10

_**Cool score, gorgeous women and those wild 60s!**_

_**Cool score, gorgeous women and those wild 60s!**_ In some ways "Village of the Giants" (1965) is a godawful flick about a group of "kids" (more like mid-20s) who stumble upon a potion that turns them into giants. Godawful or not, there's just something mesmerizing about this flick! It's ridiculous and the "special effects" are laughable, yet it's full of energy and is thoroughly entertaining in a swingin' 60s kind of way; and entertainment's the name of the game. Highlights include: the weird bass-driven 60's score titled "The Last Race" by Jack Nitzsche (borrowed by Tarantino for "Death Proof"); the accompanying sensual dancing of the "teens" (they really don't know what else to do after becoming giants, so they just dance, lol); the cast includes a young Ron Howard, Beau Bridges, Robert Random and Tommy Kirk, as well as not one, not two, but three gorgeous 60's females -- Joy Harmon, Tisha Sterling and, best of all, a young redheaded Toni Basil (who went on to become a one-hit wonder with "Hey Mickey"). Watch out for Basil in the pool party scene. She also has an extended dance sequence late in the film in black leotards. So, yeah, "Village of the Giants" is a real turkey, but it's a golden turkey. " For comparison, it's superior to the contemporaneous "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (which was released 2.5 months earlier) in that it is (1) in color, (2) doesn't attempt to be serious melodrama in the manner of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and (3) lacks a sneering one-dimensional psychopathic vixen as antagonist. In other words, "Village" treads similar terrain to "Faster" but without the negative elements. The film runs 1 hour, 21 minutes, and was shot in Burbank and Hollywood, Ca. GRADE: B (Actually a "C" but "A" for entertainment value; so overall "B" )
Reviewed by Mr. Pulse 5 / 10

Very funny movie, but is it really a "village?"

Bert I. Gordon's "Village of the Giants" is a humorously poor version of the "big thing make boom" movies in which a small group (Maybe 6, hardly a full village) of teens take a formula that makes them grow really big, talk really slow, and move like they are dying one breath at a time. It's all rather silly, and quite funny if you're up for this kind of movie. Of course, it's not funny in the way Gordon intended. Was it ever?Tommy Kirk, also of the classic "Mars Needs Women" is fooling around with his lady friend in the start of the film, when Ronny Howard (Still with a full head o' hair, and answering to the modest name "Genius") creates a formula that makes things grow. When the no-good drifter teens get their hands on it, they cause some real trouble, and it's up to Tommy and Ronny to stop the chaosy. The best scene is the first in which the teens appear before the town. They show up at an outdoor barbecue, and everyone is afraid, but really, not so afraid that they run away or anything, they just kind of look up and gasp a lot. So then the giants are making threats, and Tommy, in a fit of rage and large hair, picks up a chair (That just happened to be sitting around outside in a park) and breaks it over the giants legs (They pretend, use your imagination). He goes "Ow!" and then backfists Tommy who gets whalloped. Very nicely done.The whole film takes place in a vacuum. No one seems to be much surprised or worried by the giants ducks that show up out of nowhere in the Whiskey A Go-Go and start dancing. They just kind of go along with it. Nor is anyone interested in calling the government in when the teens take over the town. They just sort of go with it. And really when these giants move as slow as they do, why would anyone be afraid of them? You can always outrun them, or if they try something, take two steps to the left. Bert I. Gordon, if you'll pardon the expression, just wasn't thinking "big" enough in this movie to really deal with the consequences of his ideas. The end is so banal and rather anti-climactic, especially for what is essentially a monster movie.All in all, "Village of the Giants" is low on logic, but high on some good laughs, most at its expense.
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