It! (1967)

07/01/1967Horror1h 36m
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Bullets can't kill it! Fire can't burn it! Water can't drown it! How can we destroy IT before IT destroys us?

Overview

After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Roddy McDowall

    Arthur Pimm

  2. Cast 1

    Jill Haworth

    Ellen Grove

  3. Cast 1

    Paul Maxwell

    Jim Perkins

  4. Cast 1

    Aubrey Richards

    Prof. Weal

  5. Cast 1

    Ernest Clark

    Harold Grove

  6. Cast 1

    Oliver Johnston

    Curator Trimingham

  7. Cast 1

    Noel Trevarthen

    Insp. White

  8. Cast 1

    Ian McCulloch

    Detective Wayne

  9. Richard Goolden

    The Old Rabbi

***The original Terminator, but nowhere near as good*** A London museum acquires a Golem, an indestructible Hebrew statue originally created to protect the community. The assistant curator (Roddy McDowall) discovers how to control the thing but uses it for selfish, destructive purposes. You know what they say: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I've seen a few illustrations of Golems over the years where it looks very block-like (see Wikipedia), but none look like the Golem depicted in this film. Here it's pretty hideous and not block-like at all. Someone described ...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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