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Release Date: 1965 Cast: Tisha Sterling, Tim Rooney, Beau Bridges, Kevin O'Neill, Ron Howard, Tommy Kirk, Orangey, Johnny Crawford, Toni Basil, Hank Jones, Joe Turkel, Rance Howard ...MORE
Cast: Tisha Sterling, Tim Rooney, Beau Bridges, Kevin O'Neill, Ron Howard, Tommy Kirk, Orangey, Johnny Crawford, Toni Basil, Hank Jones, Joe Turkel, Rance Howard, Joy Harmon, Robert Random, Charla Doherty, Gail Gilmore ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Science Fiction, Adventure, Cult, Comedy, Coming of age, Juvenile Delinquency Film, Teen Village of the Giants is a 1965 science-fiction/comedy movie with many elements of the beach party film genre. It was produced, directed and written by Bert I. Gordon, and based loosely on H.G. Wells's book The Food of the Gods. The story revolves mostly around a chemical substance called "Goop", which causes giant growth in living things, and what happens after a gang of rebellious youngsters get their hands on it. The cast was mostly teens, or young actors playing teens, and The Beau Brummels and Freddy Cannon make musical guest appearances.
The movie was a low-budget exploitation film... MORE
Village of the Giants is a 1965 science-fiction/comedy movie with many elements of the beach party film genre. It was produced, directed and written by Bert I. Gordon, and based loosely on H.G. Wells's book The Food of the Gods. The story revolves mostly around a chemical substance called "Goop", which causes giant growth in living things, and what happens after a gang of rebellious youngsters get their hands on it. The cast was mostly teens, or young actors playing teens, and The Beau Brummels and Freddy Cannon make musical guest appearances.
The movie was a low-budget exploitation film and not a huge hit (released mostly to drive-ins as part of a double bill), but had some notable use of special effects and undoubted sex appeal, and went on to become a cult classic. The movie proved far more successful years later, when released on home video.
Village of the Giants takes place in fictional Hainesville, California. After crashing their car into a roadblock during a rainstorm, a group of partying, big-city teenagers (Fred, Pete, Rick, Harry, and their girlfriends Merrie, Elsa, Georgette and Jean) first indulge in a vigorous, playful mud-wrestling fight, then hike their way into LESS
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