All The Giant Grasshopper Scenes From "Beginning Of The End" (1957) (video)

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Radiation experiments create giant monster grasshoppers...

...in this low-budget monster thriller from producer-director Bert I. Gordon.

Peter Graves and Peggie Castle must defeat them and save humanity.

Producer-director Bert I. Gordon ("B.I.G.") specialized in giant monsters.
His low-budget special effects are primitive but fun.

At times the action resembles a poor man's "Starship Troopers."
Gordon is said to have done the SPFX himself in his own home garage.

He purchased 200 grasshoppers but was down to twelve when shooting began.
"The grasshoppers turned cannibalistic," he would later say.

Some shots feature the insects walking on still photographs of buildings.
Composer Albert Glasser contributed his usual bombastic score.

An electronic mating call is finally used to lure the monsters into Lake Michigan.


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