Giant people movies
March 27, 2009
Monsters vs. Aliens spoofs a lot of 1950s monsters and alien invasion movies, but the main character Ginormica is a nod to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
I was thinking about all the movies where someone grows to enormous size. For the purposes of this list, I’m limiting it to the 20th-century person gets radiation / zapped by an alien / eats food with a weird chemical in it / etc. genre. No Norse giants or denizens from Gulliver’s Travels need apply!
THE CYCLOPS (1957). Test pilot crashes in Mexico and grows to enormous size due to radioactivity.
THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957). Was done on MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000.
ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN (1958). I’ve never seen it, but several people have told me that, alas, the movie does not live up to the fantastic poster.
WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST (1958, AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN sequel, although it has the actor Duncan Parkin from THE CYCLOPS rather than Glenn Langan from AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN. Was done on MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000.
THE 30 FOOT BRIDE OF CANDY ROCK (1959). Lou Costello’s last movie, and the only one he made without Bud Abbott.
VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS (1965). Was done on MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000.
HONEY, I BLEW UP THE KID (1992)
ATTACK OF THE 50 FT. WOMAN (1993 remake)
ATTACK OF THE 60 FOOT CENTERFOLD (1995).
Dai-Nipponjin (BIG MAN JAPAN) (2007). YouTube.
Also, I remember various VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA episodes where somebody would get Real Big and wrestle the 7-foot model of the Seaview in a swimming pool or something. And I’ve never seen that other Irwin Allen show LAND OF THE GIANTS, but, judging from the lunchboxes I remember other kids having, there must have been giants aplenty.
Can you think of other giant people movies?
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