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Someone at Warner Bros. watched Werewolf By Night and has wisely offered Michael Giacchino a feature-length directing gig and it will a reimanning of the 1954 film Them!

Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino will make his big-screen directorial debut with reboot of classic '50s monster movie Them!

Though Gordon Douglas’ 1954 monster movie Them! tells a far more quiet, intimate story than its modern descendants, one of the first ways it clues

Them! Though Gordon Douglas’ 1954 monster movie Them! tells a far more quiet, intimate story than its modern descendants, one of the first ways it clues you in to the danger its human heroes are in is a haunting, piercing noise that calls out from the wilderness. Advertisement When sergeant Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) and army soldier Ed Blackburn (Chris Drake) stumble upon a little girl (Sandy Descher) wandering around the New Mexico desert alone, the men can tell from the child’s catat...

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Joan Weldon Dies, Star of Sci-Fi Creature Classic Them! Was 90 Joan Weldon Dies, Star of Sci-Fi Creature Classic Them! Was 90 Actress and singer Joan Weldon, best known for battling gigantic ants in the classic sci-fi movie Them!, has died at the age of 90. In sad news, Joan Weldon, the stage and television actress best known for her performance in the iconic sci-fi monster movie Them!, has passed away. Though Weldon died on Feb. 11, her family had just recently announced the news. She was 90...

In the groundbreaking movie, Weldon played researcher Dr. Pat Medford, working alongside her scientist father, Dr. Harold Medford (Edmund Gwenn), to help the U.S. government get a handle on a deadly outbreak of enormous ants following their irradiated mutation from atomic testing at the Alamogordo, New Mexico nuclear facility. Regarded as one of the first “big bug” films in the nuclear-obsessed era of postwar speculative science fiction, Them! is still regarded by fans and movie buffs as a...

Joan Weldon, Actress Pursued by Giant Ants in ‘Them!,’ Dies at 90 Mike Barnes Joan Weldon Joan Weldon, the actress and singer dubbed “filmdom’s fairest exterminator” after her turn as a young scientist investigating giant, radiation-mutated ants in the 1954 sci-fi classic Them!, has died. She was 90. Weldon died Feb. 11 at her home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, her family announced. A onetime contract player at Warner Bros., Weldon during her heyday appeared in severa...