Cinema: Bloodstream Green

A good monster picture, as any moviemaker knows, is worth its weight in ghouls. Bent on scaring the money as well as the daylights out of the customers, Hollywood is currently preparing the biggest assortment of horror pictures since the Frankenstein days of the '30s.

Them (Warner) is about giant, man-eating ants. Explains one Warner man: "These ants are murderous bastards. When they grow eight feet tall, they gotta eat, and what's nicer than people?"

The Mad Magician (Columbia, 3-D), is a follow-up to the money-making House of Wax (TIME, April 20), again starring Vincent Price. Explains a Columbia official: "Everything pops out...

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