This one is a pretty typical but fun 50s monsters-on-the-loose epic. The "shrews" here are just dogs with some long fangs and other accouterments added on. Our main hero is played by a young James Best that all 70s kids know went on to become Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on THE DUKES OF HAZZARD program. The main baddie is Ken Curtis which TV Land aficionados would know as Festus on GUNSMOKE. So it's quite the future all-star cast. The plot almost becomes a blueprint for NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD at a certain point with a group of people trapped in a house fending of an invading force which makes me think George Romero was probably a fan.
There was crappy-looking sequel called RETURN OF THE KILLER SHREWS in 2012. CGI shrews don't seem like much fun to me. There was also a spoof called ATTACK OF THE KILLER SHREWS! made in 2016 which looks like they used puppets for the creatures but it's also supposed to be a comedy so that's an unfortunate thing that exists. Finally there's also a colorized version of the original out there if you're not cool enough to watch a black and white movie.
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