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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 of the screen in this one. Price is shown cutting off a girl's head with a buzz saw. He is burned to death in a big steel box with a glass window."

Man from Mars (Columbia, 3-D) produced by "Jungle Sam" Katzman, is about a new X-bomb. "If this X-bomb explodes," says Katzman, "it will interfere with the axis that the world goes round on." There will be invaders from space, but Katzman has not decided what they will look like: "They might be eggheaded or helmeted."

Cat Women of the Moon (Independent, 3-D) is about earth explorers on the moon. There, says Producer Al Zimbalist, they find "ugly-looking things like giant spiders with four eyes, and they blow poisonous fumes."

The Great Green Og (Independent, 3-D), says Producer Albert Zugsmith, is a "science-fiction fantasy that takes place on the planet Aphrodite, a fictional planet. The Og is something not quite human, like a Hollywood agent or a movie reviewer. He's twice the size of a man. He has green blood."

The Black Lagoon (Universal-International, 3-D) is about a "gill man," half-fish, half-man, who looks like a frog.

Gorilla at Large (20th Century-Fox, 3-D and flattie) escapes from an amusement park, says Producer Leonard Goldstein, "and winds up in a mirror maze . . . So you have about twelve gorillas popping out in 3-D from the mirror. We also hide him in a diving bell, and he submerges, and he gets on a roller coaster . . . That's the only thing 3-D is good for."

Gog (Independent, 3-D) is about two electronic robots named Gog and Magog, who handle dangerous atomic materials in a government laboratory. The twist, according to Producer Ivan Tors: "They revolt and turn against the scientists and try to destroy everything that has human body heat. This is a gimmick picture."

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