Ant Man is in theaters now, featuring a superhero that ’s been shrunk to a tiny size. That’s an idea that’s been used a few times before. It’s an opportunity to show off some special effects skills, and give audiences a different point of view. Remember Attack of the Puppet People? Of course you don’t.
Sally Reynolds (June Kenney) takes a job as secretary for the kindly-seeming dollmaker Mr. Franz (John Hoyt), unaware that her new boss is so afraid of being alone that he shrinks certain people down to one-sixth their size and keeps them around as “friends.” Filmmaker Bert I. Gordon went from one extreme (The Amazing Colossal Man) to the other with this C-lister, which -- like a lot of Gordon’s movies -- has its entertainment value even at its silliest.
Den of Geek has a list of twelve memorable films where less is more. You’ve probably seen more of them than you realize.