Details

Release year: 1959

Storyline

On an isolated island, a small group of people is terrorized by giant voracious shrews during a hurricane.

Top credits

Directors

Ray Kellogg

Writers

Jay Simms

Cast

James Best — Thorne Sherman
Ingrid Goude — Ann Craigis
Ken Curtis — Jerry Farrell
Gordon McLendon — Dr. Radford Baines

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Did you know

• Close-ups of the giant shrews were filmed using hand puppets. The wider shots used dogs made up as the shrews.

• Actor / co-producer Ken Curtis once commented that he had to force himself not to laugh during filming when the shrews attacked because they were basically just "dogs covered in shag carpet."

• A sequel, Return of the Killer Shrews (2012), was produced in 2012, again starring James Best as Thorne Sherman. Bruce Davison took the role of Jerry. The film also starred John Schneider and Rick Hurst, Best's co-stars in The Dukes of Hazzard (1979). The length of time between the original film's release and the sequel's release (53 years) is one of the longest between film sequels in history.