{"id":4588,"date":"2012-10-03T07:49:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T13:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2012-10-04T13:41:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T19:41:40","slug":"the-killer-shrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=4588","title":{"rendered":"The Killer Shrews"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Jason Grooms<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you know what the most fierce, deadly, blood-thirsty creature the world has ever known is? It’s a creature with ferocious fangs like a lion, echolocation like a vampire bat, and deadly venom like a cobra. No, it\u2019s not a mutant platypus from the island of Doctor Moreau. It\u2019s the shrew. What? Not afraid you say? Then you\u2019ve never seen The Killer Shrews. I promise you, one look at the terribly horrifyingly awful shrews in this movie and you\u2019ll have some seriously disturbing nightmares, I guarantee it.<\/p>\n

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The Killer Shrews<\/em>\u00a0is the story of a scientist, his family, assistants, and the small crew of a supply ship (whose captain is played by James Best, none other than Roscoe P. Coltrane from\u00a0The Dukes of Hazard<\/em>) who are trapped on an island by an approaching hurricane and are forced to take shelter in the only house on the island. But this is no ordinary island.<\/p>\n

The scientist, Doctor Marlowe Craigis (Baruch Lumet) is experimenting with radical methods to solve the world\u2019s impending overcrowding and hunger problem. His solution? To shrink man to half size in order to reduce the need for space and food. (I know. I kick myself for not having thought of that too.)<\/p>\n

The unfortunate and all-to-deadly side effect of the experiment however is that it\u2019s caused the test animals to grow exponentially larger than their original form. The most deadly of these are the shrews, which have grown to the size of large dogs and are more deadly than any creature known to man.<\/p>\n

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