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The Swarm
1978
A star-studded scare film, THE SWARM features 22 million African killer bees crossing the border into the United States. As the city of Houston becomes abuzz with fear, the bees spread havoc, death, but no honey, upon a cast that features Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, .. Read more
| Starring | Michael Caine, Olivia De Havilland, Richard Chamberlain, Jose Ferrer |
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| Director | Irwin Allen |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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The Swarm
A star-studded scare film, THE SWARM features 22 million African killer bees crossing the border into the United States. As the city of Houston becomes abuzz with fear, the bees spread havoc, death, but no honey, upon a cast that features Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, and many others.
| Starring | Michael Caine, Olivia De Havilland, Richard Chamberlain, Jose Ferrer, Richard Widmark, Patty Duke Astin, Katharine Ross |
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| Director | Irwin Allen |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 51 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 17 Feb 2003 Production year: 1978 |
| Format | DVD |
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African killer bees are moving west and threatening to engulf Houston, Texas. Quick, call on entomologist Michael Caine and a hive of Hollywood has-beens to out-ham each other while reciting terrible dialogue and getting stung by coloured Styrofoam pellets! Producer/director Irwin Allen added new meaning to his “master of disaster” title with this bumbled B-movie, considered one of the worst ever made by popular consensus. However, there's much to enjoy precisely because it is so awful, with Queen Bee Olivia de Havilland's laughable love triangle with Ben Johnson and Fred MacMurray being the only strange mating ritual Caine should be studying!
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Very obvious all-star disaster movie with risible dialogue. A box-office flop, probably because several TV movies had already tackled the same subject.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Bee afraid. Bee very afraid...
Brilliant, gripping, engrossing, and superb are all words that appear in The Oxford English Dictionary. Unfortunately none of them apply to this amateurish mess.
Other words, words like wooden, absurd, laughable, juvenile, and embarrassing are far more appropriate. Caine, Widmark and their partners in crime should have been sent to an old offenders institution for inflicting this turkey on an unsuspecting public.
In real life bees are scary. Swarms of bees are even scarier. Swarms of killer African bees are pant-wettingly scary. So how this film managed to make them about as frightening as greenfly takes some understanding. -
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Bee afraid. Bee very afraid...
Brilliant, gripping, engrossing, and superb are all words that appear in The Oxford English Dictionary. Unfortunately none of them apply to this amateurish mess.
Other words, words like wooden, absurd, laughable, juvenile, and embarrassing are far more appropriate. Caine, Widmark and their partners in crime should have been sent to an old offenders institution for inflicting this turkey on an unsuspecting public.
In real life bees are scary. Swarms of bees are even scarier. Swarms of killer African bees are pant-wettingly scary. So how this film managed to make them about as frightening as greenfly takes some understanding. -
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A star-studded scare film, THE SWARM features 22 million African killer bees crossing the border into the United States. As the city of Houston becomes abuzz with fear, the bees spread havoc, death, but no honey, upon a cast that features Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard ...
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