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Eat Home Chicago! The theatrical trailer for BEGINNING OF THE END (1957), in which giant cicadas--er, grasshoppers--attack the Windy City.

Read all about the 50-year history of Chicago TV horror-movie hosts and monster-movie showcases in the book CHICAGO TV HORROR MOVIE SHOWS: FROM SHOCK THEATRE TO SVENGOOLIE available from Lake Claremont Press at www.lakeclaremont.com

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  • Well, if it's not giant lizards... or birds...or ants... or tarantulas... or gorillas... or space creatures...or mollusks... or praying mantids... or sea caterpillars... or scorpions... or crab monsters... or...let's see...what did I leave out? Oh yeah... giant rocks... giant plants... giant staues... giant people... giant blobs... giant aliens.. giant sharks... giant robots... giant snakes... giant alligators... naked women (wait! How'd that get in there?) ... it may as well be grasshoppers!

  • I bought this rubber grasshopper on Ebay because I knew Peter Graves was coming to my town for a film festival, (he's old now) but he was nice to me and signed my rubber grasshopper! I have it in a place of honor on my nick nack shelf.

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  • TO HELL WITH GRASSHOPPERS!!! TRANSFORMERS HAVE CHICAGO NOW!!!!!

  • Peggie Castle is HOT! Love her car too.

  • Global warming.

  • General: The Air Force is standing by with an Atom bomb

    Guy: You can't drop an Atom Bomb on Chicago

    General: If you haven't noticed the city is over run wtih giant grasshopppers, now unless you can produce a king size can of Bug Spray we're going with the Bomb

  • So the Giant Ants don't even get to destroy one single building in LA but the Grasshoppers on a Mate Painting get to tear apart Chicago to their hearts content?

  • LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL

  • 1.19, Wait... how did they get a Churchill Crocodile? Oh yeah, stock footage...

  • @KyleAndDougsRandomTV Yeah, at least crickets would chirp us to insanity.

  • I loved it when the giant grasshoppers crawled up the Wrigley building. Not convincingly. Just a photo enlargement of the iconic landmark with regular sized bugs crawling on it. Funny though, and Peter Graves being as serious as Leslie Nielson was in Airplane!

  • "For the first time giant creatures terrorize an entire city!"

    Well I know that's not true. What about Godzilla? He attacked Tokyo! That was in 1954, before this! What about King Kong? That was in 1933!!!

    Besides, really, Grasshoppers? Sure, take a harmless, herbivorous insect and make it big, that'll scare people! The worst damage giant Grasshoppers would cause is mass crop destruction. They're not aggressive creatures.

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