A child is discovered wandering aimlessly in a desert in the Southwestern United States. Trying to locate her parents, a police investigation starts to uncover a series of abandoned and destroyed homesteads in the area. The evidence is confounding but scientists are brought onboard and their discoveries are unsettling. Could it be that an area located near nuclear testing could be harboring mutations created by the bomb blast radiation? Of course it could!
This movie was one of many made at the time that posited that giant ants, grasshoppers, humans could be the horrific result of our dabbling with nuclear weapons, radiation, etc.
Very atmospheric scenes in the arid, wind swept desert ensue and some of the initial inspections of the lonely, demolished habitats are genuinely creepy. A legitimate classic science fiction film from the 1950’s.
