Am I the only one who thought this was disturbingly similar to <I>Night Of The Living Dead?</I> (Much worse of course, though.) A group of people, trapped in a house all night while monsters surround them trying to get in, two of the people wanting to literally kill each other. I'm not suggesting plagarism in NOTLD, but the similarities really stood out at me when watching this film (on MST3k, of course.)
shareyes, they're indeed similar. and even moreso, have the exact same music stock which romero used in NIGHT.
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Another similarity -- the scene in which Ken Curtis locks James Best out of the compound because he's afraid the shrews will get in if he opens the door is just like the one in NOTLD in which Harry refuses to let Ben into the house before the zombies get him. In both cases the hero finally gets in and beats the cowardly character to within an inch of his life, then threatens to feed him to the monsters (Ben says "I ought to drag you out there and FEED you to those things!", and James Best actually comes close to DOING it before stopped). And yes, the music is the same in both scenes.
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I thought the same damn thing!
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I think George Romeo did get a lot his inspiration from this mvoie. Although, most horror movies have the characters trapped, there were way more similarities that had to have been derived from watching this film inparticular
shareI wonder if Hitchcock saw this before he made THE BIRDS?
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Romero definitely saw this one. They're just too similar for it to be a coincidence. Besides, Night of the Living Dead borrows some of the musical score as well.
Another similarity -- the scene in which Ken Curtis locks James Best out of the compound because he's afraid the shrews will get in if he opens the door is just like the one in NOTLD in which Harry refuses to let Ben into the house before the zombies get him. In both cases the hero finally gets in and beats the cowardly character to within an inch of his life, then threatens to feed him to the monsters (Ben says "I ought to drag you out there and FEED you to those things!", and James Best actually comes close to DOING it before stopped). And yes, the music is the same in both scenes.
i'm not sure i thought about it when i saw this movie, but i'm well aware of both, perhaps the camera shot where their teeths were pushing up against the door was hard to avoid recalling "night of the living dead", i'm putting it like that because i saw "night of the living dead" way long before "the killer shrews", but there are two threads on this board bringing up quite some similarities. i came to think this movie was probably suppose to have the word "giant" in the title but the word got overused in titles around this time, i think this has the same moviemaker as "the giant gila monster", that cornflakes fella, i must like his style, cause these two are the favorites of old horror flicks i've seen recently, no glut in violence, but enjoyable pieces.
something playful peeked,
can't figure the mystery hidden beneath,
there i thought you were caged in bore,
shocked at what behind showed,
a hint of that bad side of yours,
too much to explore that strong force,
trapped in a cage of heat unknown,
and i don't know where to trip around,
something naughty underneath that innocent smile.
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