THEM!
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  • alot may be said for the sound design of this film. it has been sampled a million times, and rightfully so.

  • One of the best and scariest scifi movies of the 50s. May not be understood by some of the younger generations who need spattered blood and brains to enjoy a movie.

  • sounds like they need a really huge anteater

  • Damn Canadians are trying to make this a reality.

  • Giants ants from space waste the human race, then they eat your face never leave a trace XD

  • This would be the only Re-make id watch

  • I remember seeing this YEARS ago (maybe at least 20 yrs ago) when I was in grade school..lol! It must have been movie day or something. Haven't seen it since. Thanks for posting!!

  • Great special effects.

  • Movie trailers now < Movie trailers in the 50's

  • heard about this from the misfits song "them"... damn they sure as hell knew their sci fi movies.

  • @ExuroProEternus Misfits has introduced me shit loads of good old scifi and horror movies. Great band, great movies.

  • It's a metaphor for America's fear of communism and the 'Red Menace'.

  • A remake? It would be lame. This film started out as something like a 1950s crime drama and gradually evolved into a great monster flick. Warner Bros didn't make a lot of monster movies (like Universal). THEM! is Cold War Sci-Fi at its best.

  • I just made a much needed Facebook fan page for this movie!

    Check it out!

  • Dam Is this what they called entertainment back then.............. BECAUSE THIS IS AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • ROFL one of para-medic'ss favorite films thumsb up if you know what am talking about

  • 2:41 "KILL IT WITH FIRE!"

  • love this film!

  • whos here because of cloverfeild

  • i love this movie i used to watch when i was like 8 years old when they had monster movie marathon and shit me and my grandma. i really want to find this movie i been collecting older monster movies left and right this summer but cant find them!

  • this movies actually had pretty good special affects

  • Man, I love the score for this film. Chilling 50's sci-fi at it's greatest.

  • @FlyingFocs Oh eah!.

  • Should've called the Earth Defense Force.

  • they should try a huge loupe

  • They did a movie about giant scorpions, called "Black Scorpion." It was also caused by the nuclear testing. And, of course Godzilla came from these tests, too. There was a movie about a giant spider that came from a scientist doing strange experiments. Those were the good old days. Oh, yeah. There was also one with giant praying mantises. New movies could come from the effect of agent orange or something. Military use many secret weapons now.

  • Fallout3-those!!!!!!!!

  • We would probably get wiped out if ants were that big.

  • LOl so these Them are spiders?

  • @Arissef

    Ants

  • this is the staple that defined the atomic age of horror

  • This gave me nightmares in 1978.

  • @HorrorLover128 what skool do you go 2

    

  • im watching this on AMC right now

  • Your teacher was wrong. They frequently are.

  • We watched this movie in class last year. I was the only one that liked it even the teacher claimed it sucked.

  • @HorrorLover128 Sounds like your teacher was just trying to fit in...

  • @HorrorLover128 out of curiosity, what subject were you studying? Mid-century kitsch? Zoology Gone Wrong?

  • @GretaGargoyle It was basic 7th grade sci class

  • @HorrorLover128 Didn't mention what the class was. THEM Set standard of Atomic Monsters for the 50s! Actors played their roles to a 'T"! This film started the idea of including some basic science concerning the 'monsters', film that is played for the heads of the US Govt. This gave those watchin' the movie a little bit of understanding of ant behavior! It starts off as a mystery then a possible murder investigation until it comes SF--can think of this as the 1st X-Files! James Arness FBI Agent

  • @HorrorLover128 Don't worry about, the teacher likely is stupid and opinionated anyway.

  • @HorrorLover128 What kind of class?

  • @HorrorLover128 Goes to show how moronic most kids are nowadays..if its not computer generated..they think its fake..when the truth is just the opposite...lol ...you hang in there kid...you'll rule all those other kids when you get older

  • @HorrorLover128 OMG! this movie was AWESOME at the time it came out!!! Even NOW, I've seen movies with MUCH worse special effects and story lines made currently. And there isn't anything QUITE as creepy as that sound they make!

  • @HorrorLover128  OMG! this movie was AWESOME at the time it came out!!! Even NOW, I've seen movies with MUCH worse special effects and story lines made currently. And there isn't anything QUITE as creepy as that sound they make!

  • @HorrorLover128 Watching old sci-fi class? Stop complaining. Some kids have to do actual work.

  • @310sucks sci fi class???? SIGN ME UP!!

  • @HorrorLover128

    Let down yes, sucked not quite.

  • @HorrorLover128 were did u watch it, like were did u find it?

  • Nostalgic SCI-FI...Great movie!!

  • A great movie

  • Thumbs up if this kicks the crap out of CGI.

  • @pickerman123 maybe , but we all know the 1st movie ... Alien was a carbon copy of 'IT Terror from Beyond space'

  • @AiMiA78 Thank you. I've made that point in discussion with friends several times but it they haven't seen IT they don't want to believe it. Nothing against Alien, I liked it.

  • This film was an inspiration for James Cameron's "Aliens."

    1. The queen

    2. her eggs

    3. The little girl whose family was killed

    4. The little girl's doll head like Newt's.

    5. Flame throwers

    6. Attacking the nest in the desert which resembles planet Acheron from Aliens.

    7. The army fighting in the sewage system which resembles the Heat exchange coolers from Aliens.

    8. The build up to seeing the ants just as the build up to seeing the Aliens.

    I own both Aliens and Them but they're both great.

  • God we had fun watching this movie on the first go round!

  • @deriter64 Those programs on early tv were fun to watch. It's amazing how the sound of a squeaky wheel would catch a kid's attention and make the movie more suspenseful.

  • the best movie in that era.

  • This was one of the first black and white movies ive seen.

  • wut, giant ants? use some bug kill crap, thatll work.

  • One thing that really confuses me about this trailer is how the creatures are a "nameless horror."

    How hard is it difficult to describe giant ants?

  • see back in their time the storyline was awesome but special effect where crapy today it all revers special effect awesome storyline suck.....

  • My dream is to remake Them! I'm already writing a script and everything, hell I may be only 14 but I have my whole life to get it together! XD and The Army is going to be way more invovled in it

  • @TheDsAo I'm 14 too. Can I write it with you?

  • @thetan63 really.. because it says you're 24.. get a life predator

  • What song is this?

  • Mostly all the foolish film makers of today can do is remake classic films, because they have no imagination nor any ideas of their own. If they aren't remaking an old classic like this or countless others, they are turning an old classic TV show into a movie, and they all stink like shit 90% of the time.

  • The 10 people that don't like this video got killed in the movie.

  • Leave the classics alone and enjoy.

  • god forbid! no!!!! leave gordon douglas's movie alone

  • In the videogame, Fallout 3. The Quest: "Those". You fight against big ants.

  • This movie scared the POO POO out of me when I was a KID!! Best Movie of all time!!!

  • One of the best movie scores EVER! Bronislau Kaper was in top form when he made this wonderful pulse pounding score.

  • Or, Them-There as it might have been shown in rural communities, lol.

  • Awesome movie growing up..Monsters, atomic bombs and the military!

  • I miss movies where roles requiring authority and experience were filled by people old enough to play the parts.

  • I would say they should remake this b ut they would only screw it up.

  • We may be witnesses to a Biblical prophecy come true And there shall be destruction and darkness come upon creation and the beast shall reign over the earth 

    Best Quote Ever

  • this movie is not real

  • Fallout brought me here

  • i think i hear about this movie plaayed metal gear solid 3 sneak eater

  • NO DAM REMAKES!

  • It's like Tremors but with ants

  • @SniperStorm7 VERY TRUE

  • and a remake would be VERY GOOD!!!

  • @vogpassed Since when has there ever been a good modern remake? Why can't people just enjoy the original without thinking about a remake?

  • @tobar1p There have been a few good modern remakes in my opinion, but I won't name them for fear of being teased lol.

  • @1981bendover I will name some of them. "The thing", by John Carpenter. "The front page", by Billy Wilder. Two master pieces remakes.

  • @tobar1p Remakes aren't a bad thing, The Italian Job is great, Dawn of the Dead? Scarface?

    You have to think about the good ones too.

    but there is a difference between something that has to be remade and every single movie ever being remade. Like this, this should not be remade, it's just a piece of that time period. It would not do good now.

  • @Cogniwave Except remakes are just about all they're doing nowadays, and they are mostly POS's (or would that be PsoS?) Them! is a great classic. Film makers today don't know how to remake a good movie. If they did it now they'd probably CGI all the soul out of it like they did with The Haunting. Or make the story totally stupid like with The Wicker Man, going from classic to something I walked out on, a total waste of cash and time.

  • @tobar1p because we want.. problem? -.-' I hate black 'n white, why can't people just admit that old films sound and look like crap?

  • @SeivomProductions2 Because they don't? Have you ever seen Casablanca, Citizen Kane or Psycho?

  • @SeivomProductions2 newer movies sound an look like crap. all it is, is special effects that take away from the whole movie and shitty acting. and the movies today dont have the classic feeling that movies back then did.

    maybe writers should try to think of something new that fifty years from now will be worth its own shitty remake.

  • @tobar1p uhhh,the day the earth stood still was a good remake.they had some good ideas that were fun and origional in the past,why deny modern kids all that goodness?remember the remake of the blob in about 85 or 86?

  • @superbert35 The Day the Earth Stood Still remake was horrible! Who's denying anyone anything? These movies are widely available on DVD for all to enjoy.

  • @tobar1p =O!! you didnt like the day the earth stood still,im shocked.hmm,i thought it was a good friday night flick.just an idea,perhaps seeing as how a dvd prolly costs a company 10 cents,when a remake is done,a copy of the origional could be included in the box.im just thinking of how cool some of those old gems would be redone with modern tech,like "them" 3d on a big screen,or how bout that one,the killer bees 3d? yikes!

  • @tobar1p And if there is a remake, the directors nowadays would over exaggerate things. Take the remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still". I own it, and not one time in the original is there massive destruction or explosions. The remake had that, and soured it completely, ruining the original plot. And the remake of The War of The Worlds was bad in my taste too.

  • @DarkDialga960 Exactly. The problem with today's big films is that there's no substance to them. They're all about the flashy special effects and completely neglect the story. Likewise, the majority of remakes fail to retain what made the originals so great because they focus on the wrong things.

  • @tobar1p

    This is one movie that will probably never get a remake because the idea that inspired it, Fear of the Atomic Bomb isn't as overt or prevelant as it was back when THEM was made

  • @snakes3425 - they could have genetic engineering as the cause, instead of radiation. If they could do it in the spider-man movie they could do it for this. having said that, though, I hope they don't do a remake. Modern remakes are just crappy cash-ins on old good films.

  • @totnesmartin

    You know I've seen the movie and the words I use to describe it is LET DOWN the trailer and the movie hypes it up to the point you're looking forward to a huge climactic battle with the Ants on a rampage in LA and the Military trying to hunt them down, instead they say let's focus on finding two little boys and have our big final battle end in the sewers with the army instantally killing the queens, hell the Ants don't even get to destroy one building in downtown LA

  • @totnesmartin

    cont....so in the end remake not worth the effort unless they do something about the ending 

  • @tobar1p

    Remakes only work when their is love and passion for the orginal present during production, THEM however I don't see how you could do a remake because the message about the dangers of the Atom Bomb no longer apply

  • @snakes3425 LOL: You're hilarious

  • @futurestoryteller

    I was being serious, fear of the Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs have been superseeded by fear of things like Genetic Engeneering and Climate Change

  • @tobar1p Let's see: The Thing, Scarface, Scent of a Woman, 12 monkeys, Heat, 12, 3:10 to Yuma, Ocean's Eleven, Man on Fire, Zatôichi, The Departed, True Grit.

    Oh RIGHT, the point was for movie fans like me to agree with your harsh, irrational, overgeneralization - no, you're totally right, please continue...

  • @futurestoryteller whyd you list all those big screen flicks??

  • @SchitzzEnGiggles Was I supposed to list made for TV movies as well?

  • BEST MOVIE IVE EVER SEEN!!! its very clear not like one of those movs from 80's to 2010

  • I SoO want a remake of this

  • AWESOME movie.

  • The inspiration for Fallout 3's "Those!" Quest :3

  • @Fox10201020

    Inspiration yes except for one small detal the Ants in THEM don't breath fire

  • one of them!

    /watch?v=dURNEcIyCKM

  • I miss those days when everyone wore a hat. hahaha

  • There is no word to descibe them

    I can think of two: Giant Ants

  • @snakes3425 How about "those" or "thats" or "its" or "not like us" or "different from us" or "sort of like those others" or...

  • they should be called giant ants! dur ti dur!

  • Best Big Ant Movie Ever

  • YEAH ! Saturday matinee, butter popcorn and an icecold coke ! Those black and white screen monsters seemed invincible ! But we new our Army guys could kill "THEM" off and save the world. LONG LIVE THOSE 50's SCI-FI CLASSICS ! Anyone remember "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms?

  • An AWESOME movie.

  • I've saw this movie when I was still a little kid and now have the DVD. Great movie... I wonder what they could do today if they had a remake with modern special effects and CG... I can only hope... :D

  • 9 people obviously had relations that were eaten or carried away by THEM.

  • I love this movie! And it has Brooks off Shawshank Redemption! :)

  • @DimitriandRozaxx

    And Leonard Nimoy

  • In sweden this movie is called "Spindlarna!" (Spiders!) =)

  • I object to the way ants are characterized as horrible, terrifying, hideous nightmarish creatures and spawners of teribble progeny

  • Great flick!

  • I remember watching this movie on AMC back when I was little. It was so awesome yet scary at the same time when the ants make those terrifying noise.

  • 100% better than the shit THEM! put out today

  • Misfits made a great song about this movie, THEM!

  • the great thing about this classic wasthat they had to construct those giant ants in that size for real ...no CG here, and the actors were really scared of being in scenes with THEM

  • lol fallout 3 had a quest named those! where you had to kill a bunch of ants

  • what a classic!

  • Giant ants versus AT-AT's....coming soon

  • I saw this when I was a kid. Great Movie

  • I love this movie so much! <3

  • The 1950's was a "golden age" for Sci-Fi movies. Them, It Came From Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, The Thing, Godzilla, The Fly, and so on. I can name quite a few more, but I'm sure you get my point. I was born near the end of the 50's, so, unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to see them in the theater. I love them all, though. A good movie along the same lines is "Matinee'" (1993) with John Goodman. It's about a similar type movie, shown during the Cuban missile crisis.

  • that screeching noise makes me deaf ........

  • the old movies has awesome titles,creative lines etc

  • the old movies took all teh good titles, so that's why most movies recently made have terrible names

  • 3:06 -- 3:08. I see WHAT THEY DID THERE.

  • If you like this trailer check out this funny spoof!! lmao!

    Search for REELSURREAL and look for THEMS!

  • The greatest sci fi film ever made!

  • All things considered, I'm guessing Earth Defense Force 2017 took a good bit of inspiration from this.

  • This movie rocks, got on a double feature dvd with The Beast form 20.000 fathoms.

  • I saw this movie when I was a kid...Scared the hell outta me!

    This movie is the reason why I don't like insects at all -_-

  • i was wonderin what this was the only reason i know about it was when i was studying for a science test and i turned on the wrong page so i thought i might just look it up. pretty old 1954 looks kinda cool though

  • year flamthouer kill that thing

  • i love the 50's horror/scifi movies, they are very good, i'll try to watch this movie :D

  • they need to make a remake of them!

  • Notice they never once say the word ANTS

  • This is probably the movie that inspired Starship Troopers.

  • @Adrillius Actually Starship Troopers is based on a novel by Robert A. Heinlein

  • @tobar1p Losely!

  • @tobar1p Very loosely based, however.

  • @tobar1p though I believe the novel came out after this movie (I might be wrong on this front), so it's still possible.

  • @tobar1p THOSE!

  • @tobar1p In actuality the movie "Starship Troopers" was originally just a script called "Bugs". But when it came time to sell the movie they fleshed out plot holes by tacking on information from Heinlein's book and changed the name to "Starship Troopers". Which is why there are power armours in the movie like there are in the book, the power armours only work their way in by the third installment in the series.

  • @Adrillius Regardless if your a horror geek this movie is a golden piece of movie history , its so shit that its one of my fave movies ever!

  • @Adrillius Starship Troopers is a soft porn movie about fascists who happen to be fighting some bugs. Them is just a really good B-movie. 

  • @Adrillius Love this movie. Thanks!

  • @Adrillius It inspired Aliens

  • so much footage in this trailer that wasn't in the film.... pity

  • Santa Claus VS giant ants..

  • @robphilll22 YES

  • This is such a great movie...

  • By far the best of the big bug movies!It was going to be filmed in color and in 3D but at the last moment the studio choosed to film it in black and white.I think the black and white filming makes the film better,the ants seem more real and dangerous.