CineVegas Film Festival 2008

Remember all those atom bomb blasts you could see from the strip?? Now relive the magic with THEM! in downtown Las Vegas next to neon mountains in the open air. For one night only we will be setting up a mini-drive-in next to Fremont street. See it in all its 50's glory. After tons of radioactive bomb testing in the desert, ants grow to superhuman size! A nest of gigantic ants rise up and start fighting back! Can mankind fight back and survive? Made in 1954, THEM! is a wonderfully entertaining sci-fi scare film, with a real message - nuclear radiation is evil. One of the first giant monster movies, original audiences must have been terrified at the special effects. Nostalgically simple with today's CGI excesses, the film still packs an eerie atmosphere with the desert landscape, shocked actors, and stark black-and-white photography. addiction, as well as its psychological ones.