Here's one a lot better than it's reputation would have you think. A small group of people are trapped in a house on a tiny island by an escaped experiment gone wrong: giant ravenous shrews! Much poo-pooing of the film comes from the fact that the shrews are played by dogs* (matched well to a puppet head used for inserts). The way people harp on that, they must've wanted cows or something to play the shrews... I've never understood the hang-up. Anyway, the film is well-written and tense. James Best stars. (One of the last things Mr. Best did was a belated sequel film for the video market.) Ken Curtis plays the heavy. Though a regional production (Texas, the other California) THE KILLER SHREWS was professionally made. Played on double bill with the same production crew's THE GIANT GILA MONSTER.
[*Dogs would again play rodents in the 80's flick THE DEADLY EYES, in which over-sized and ravenous rats swarm a city. Has it's moments, but has it's idiocies as well.)
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