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#15

The Deadly Bees (1966) | Ep.15

This week on Tonight's Second Feature, James & Rhys get a little tipsy and watch The Deadly Bees 1966. Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting the 1960s equivalent of a music video, and her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with colleague and beekeeper Ralph Hargrove. Vicki finds the Hargroves' bitter marital strife oddly relaxing, but when a mysterious swarm of specially-bred attack bees starts killing island residents, Vicki fights for her survival, setting fire to nearly half the structures on the island in her escape. Starring Suzzanna Leigh as Vicki Robbins, Frank Finlay as H W Manfred, Guy Doleman as Ralph Hargrove and Catherine Finn as Mary Hargrove. The Deadly Bees made little buzz when initially distributed and years later still failed to gain a cult following despite being the first killer bee flick. So here we are today, celebrating its fandom. References: https://prettysinister.blogspot.com/2015/08/ffb-taste-for-honey-h-f-heard.html https://screenrant.com/scariest-horror-films-spiders-bugs/ https://mikestakeonthemovies.com/2018/08/30/the-deadly-bees-1966/ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/478914/index.html https://bscine.com/bsc-members/?id=250 https://hammerfilms.com/blogs/news/remembering-freddie-francis https://www.nytimes.com/1967/05/20/archives/the-screendeadly-bees-tops-bill-at-local-theaters.html https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/wiki/Sting_of_Death https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061557/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv https://www.geraldheard.com/ https://www.geraldheard.com/books/2017/12/5/the-deadly-bees https://apdg.org.au/2022/06/from-daleks-to-outer-space-and-killer-bees  Tonight's Second Feature is Created, Produced & Hosted by James Hewitt, and Rhys Strang. Movie behind the scenes researched by James Hewitt https://www.instagram.com/look_its_jmes/ Podcast Cover Art by Mihaly Csordas, https://www.instagram.com/sawdustnui/?hl=en Thumbnails created by Rhys Strang https://www.instagram.com/strangrhys/
#14

THEM! (1954) | Ep.14

This week on Tonight's Second Feature, James & Rhys embark on a bug bananza! That's right, folks, it's Creepy Crawlies!! This week the boys will drop into the second closet to talk THEM! 1954. References: file:///H:/TakapunaGolf_23.11.24/Stills/10.4324_9781315062921_previewpdf.pdf https://www.classic-monsters.com/them-warner-brothers-1954/  https://variety.com/1953/film/reviews/them-1200417583/  https://webelongdead.co.uk/them-1954/  https://collider.com/them-practical-effects/  https://www.jaysclassicmovieblog.com/post/them-1954  https://www.arrowfilms.com/blog/features/so-many-legs-so-much-meaning-an-introduction-to-bugs-in-horror-cinema/  https://grokipedia.com/page/a_terrible_night  https://academic.oup.com/ae/article-abstract/59/4/203/6720?redirectedFrom=fulltext  https://nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com/2018/07/movie-mayhem-catastrophic-visual-effects.html  https://krex.k-state.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/f802293b-1e8a-4a49-b533-24464f4a1ca2/content  http://136.175.10.10:8088/ebook/pdf/Horror_the_Film_Reader.pdf https://warnerbros.fandom.com/wiki/Them!#Production  https://www.facebook The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) (engsub).com/MonsterFanClub333/posts/-them-1954-two-full-scale-ant-props-were-built-and-designed-to-be-operated-from-/1370553681770577/  https://www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/movies/them-movie-facts   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__5B3PGoBoI  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmEPl0JjXsU  https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=trailer+for+mesa+of+lost+women&&mid=6F3D112583C0AC9DB8CF6F3D112583C0AC9DB8CF&FORM=VAMGZC&fbclid=IwY2xjawTBpvZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE2WDYyRHkwMkpyUThwRDJYc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqo-tUErYX4Vgur1wat9XZTvJD9yYwTMxa1Eak3phkK-QdmCyqz97d1Rzy-V_aem_dVgpL5IrtNw9pNsbHEeQIw  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cameraman%27s_Revenge  https://letterboxd.com/film/mr-bug-goes-to-town/  https://storiesfromthemuseumfloor.wordpress.com/2021/02/12/back-from-the-dead-entomology-taxidermy-and-the-birth-of-a-new-genre-part-i/  https://www.artandpopularculture.com/Arthropods_in_film  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gordon-Douglas  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ3746N4Tu0&t=940s  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Douglas_(director)  https://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/gordon_douglas3.html  https://andyoucallyourselfascientist.com/2019/09/01/them-1954/  https://www.jaysclassicmovieblog.com/post/them-1954  https://www.bewaretheblog.com/2021/01/george-worthing-yates-screenplays-from.html  https://silverscreenings.org/2022/03/03/giant-ants-and-the-wilhelm-scream/  https://www.mmmrecordings.com/Music/MusicThem/musicthem.html  https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/51373  https://timothysjohnston.com/a-remake-of-them-starring-glen-powell/  https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/568960/rumor-warner-bros-eyeing-glen-powell-for-remake-of-1954-sci-fi-horror-them/ Tonight's Second Feature is Created, Produced & Hosted by James Hewitt, and Rhys Strang. Movie behind the scenes researched by James Hewitt https://www.instagram.com/look_its_jmes/ Podcast Cover Art by Mihaly Csordas, https://www.instagram.com/sawdustnui/?hl=en Thumbnails created by Rhys Strang https://www.instagram.com/strangrhys/