It gets worse. ONE bee gets into the engineers' compartment and they fiddle with it for quite a while before killing it. The bee's buds IMMEDIATELY attack the train. It's established that the bees max out at 5mph and the train is clearly going faster than that; therefore the bees must have been lying in wait for the train. LOL WHUT
They can also infiltrate the climate-controlled control room deep within a nuke plant, so they must be space bees or something.
@ScreamingScallop I believe it. I was 8 and we were driving to Florida (Disney) with 7 people in the car...when a single bee flew in, at 70 MPH, and the ensuing screaming and panic nearly crashed the car! If it wasn't a space bee, it had to have at least been a malevolent NASCAR bee.
I guess it's the combination of awful dialogue and direction and basically Caine's character being 'an entimologist' (entire character portrait there), but there's an unpleaant edge to Caine's performance. He's likeable with the kid Paul, but otherwise it's like his character from Little Voice was dropped into a hero role. It's clear Caine has contempt for what he's doing and that really shows through in his performance. This really is one of the worst films every made.
This has the best line of any film from Michael Caine (sleepwalking his way to an easy pay cheque)-'The bees used to be our friends'.....................there are many others in this one tho! 'we've been fighting a losing battle against the insects for 15 years..............and I never dreamed that it would turn out to be the bees'!!!!!!!
@DCHurlford1 True! I'm not criticising him!-I love the way he just did this for the cash-hisexpressions in this make me laugh as you can see he knows it's a pile of sh*t! He did the same with Jaws4 and a few others-it was worth it for that line! plus many others-'there is no bee inthis room!'
@thenowuk Cheers for the reply. Yeah no worries, i didn't think you were having a pop at him. I was just trying to make more light of a bad movie situation. Ha ha indeed his facial expressions were priceless. Connery was much the same in that ropey special effects film Meteor from the same era.
I think Irwin Allen spent all of the budgets for his next three movies hiring all the biggest stars he could find, even though many would only have one, two or three scenes before dying or never being seen again and those roles would've been better suited for extras or new comers, while spending next to nothing on hiring talented screenwriters and effects people he forgot what made Poseiden Adventure and Towering inferno good they were well written films about disasters that were possible
Jose Ferar: Billions of dollars have been made to make these nuclear plants safe. Failsafe. The odds against that anything going wrong are astronomical, doctor.
Richard Chamberlain: I appreciate that, doctor, but let me ask you with all your failsafe techniques is there any provision against killer bees.
@joeblowthehot Michael Caine happily admits he did this film for the money. I'm sure all the others involved did it for the same reasons. You can see the pain on Richard Widmark's face as he's saying all that appalling clunky dialogue.
@JaySpiceNZ Did the woman who opened the door get nominated for an oscar? 'Most unconvincing reaction to a huge bee' catagory at the 1978 academy awards? LOL
Although I actually respect them for showing kids being killed in this movie. Most films don't seem to have the balls to kill off anyone who isn't younger than 18 or older than 50.
Why is everyone laughing at the line " Bees! Bees! Millions of bees!!!". That's what he's confronting! It's not as if he's shouting "Sausages! Sausages! Millions of sausages!" The line is in context. What would YOU scream?
@TROUSERFLAP Because it SUCKS... That's gotta be one of the worst delivered lines I've ever heard! Plus... who the FUCK would actually react like that?!
@TROUSERFLAP It's not so much what he's saying but how he's saying it. I'm pretty loose when it comes to horror movies and even I found his voice to be corny.
We may never see film making of this brilliance ever again. The acting, the script, ("Bees bees ! Millions of bees !!") I never dreamed it would be the bees !
IT IS so damn serious it is fucking funny......WHY are they all screaming? Not only did Caine do this bad flic....he also did Beyond the Poseidon Adventure...AND also let's not forget...Jaws 4. A swarm of killer bees coming this way....LOL.
Thanks for posting this clip. It's hilarious. I recall this movie was actually very slow moving. Did Irwin Allen play a joke on the studio after the success of Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno? So many big names wasted in this B-grade movie. Bad acting, Bad script, Bad film sets. Til now, i can't understand how this film got an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design.
"When that swarm finds out some of their friends have been taken captive, they might come back to Marysville"... this is such a great line (among many others).
Make a note: never take a bee hostage lest their brethren will put you under siege.
I wish that Olivia could have this film permanently removedfrom her resume. Such a bad low for such a talented, successful woman. It makes me cringe just watching her.
Loads of Caine's films are shit, the man has no artistic integrity whatsoever! Check out BallsEye or On Deadly Ground if you want to see how low Caine can go.
I dont think michael Caine's eyebrows move during this film...even in those shouting matches with Richard Widmark.While Caine says this is his worst film....I find it better than "On Deadly Ground"
You know your movie is bad when you have all these oscar winning actors and actresses in your movie, and a swarm of Bees turn out to be the best actors in the movies
For some reason, Irwin Allen loved killing off old people. Henry Fonda,Fred MacMurray, Olivia DeHavilland, Shelley Winters... I guess it was to get people upset that Grandma and Grandpa bought the farm.
This movie is an underrated classic. It may have fallen flat into the honey jar and stuck there as a horror picture, but it is a one hell of a comedy. There are moments Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker couldn't have made funnier.
You know what we should do? We should have a scene with the bees PUSHING OVER A HEAVY TRAIN and then have the passenger cars EXPLODE although they have no means to!
Ever check him out in "Jaws: The Revenge?" He actually missed out from picking up his first Oscar (Hannah and Her Sisters) because he was filming that movie!
I loved the The Towering Inferno and still do today. BUT i have always wondered about that fact. Why so many explosion??? I know it makes for good movie. BUT, why did the senic elevator on 81 blow off it's tracks??? LOL
Why does everything blow up in Irwin Allen movies? The helicopter barely hits the ground and explodes. The train rolls down the hill, and suddenly explodes. Bees enter a nuclear plant and it somehow explodes.
Nevertheless, this is one of my many guilty pleasures.
ROFL. I saw this on TV in the late 80's and was pretty freaked. Looking at it now...what a shitty script! I love how the General says: "I always credit my enemies with equal intelligence" and Michael Cain gives him this look that seems to say, You're a loony douchebag.
This is high quality garbage. Garbage like this only comes around once in a blue moon. I mean, look at the talent they have in this film. Henry Fonda for God's sake! It is so bad it is good.
....and so the school suffered a tragedy that day, as the bees attacked the grounds, ever searching for the sweet scent that came from little Johnny's big yellow lollipop....
This, ladies and gentleman, is one more reason why candy is bad for your children.
Oh my GOD!!1 BEES1!! BEES! MILLIONS OF BEES!!!11!!1 I CAN'T SIR!1 IM LOZING POWERR!!!!11!
If I was Crane, this is how I'd cure that kid who's hallucinating the bee:
"There's not a bee in this room... There is no bee, here. If there was, it would have already landed on this bed and impaled you through your head, with its gigantic harpoon-like stinger... like THIS: BZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!"
they had Lee Grant and Patty Duke on the View a few years ago talking about Valley of the Dolls and how bad that was. Then they both said they were in the really worst movie ever made. Worse than Valley. The Swarm!
When you're 8 years old all you are interested in is what a movie is about. When you are 9 the concept of "Good and bad" begins to enter the mix. This was an enjoyable movie for the pre-mix set.
This film is pants!
henman09 1 month ago
holy shit, HOLY SHIT
this is so funny
GlengarryGlennBeck 1 month ago
The dastardly bees crashed a military helicopter and stole the kid's lollipop! Damn those killer bees.
floooky1 1 month ago
Imagine if there was a remake of this movie, and Nicholas Cage was in it.
ejl1000 1 month ago
Clearly, one big Tommy Wiseau inspiration. And if not, it shoud be.
matteoprez 4 months ago
LOL, someone please explain how a swarm of bees can make a train derail? Those are some pretty strong bees!
kidgamer2 4 months ago
@kidgamer2
It gets worse. ONE bee gets into the engineers' compartment and they fiddle with it for quite a while before killing it. The bee's buds IMMEDIATELY attack the train. It's established that the bees max out at 5mph and the train is clearly going faster than that; therefore the bees must have been lying in wait for the train. LOL WHUT
They can also infiltrate the climate-controlled control room deep within a nuke plant, so they must be space bees or something.
Book is much better.
ScreamingScallop 3 months ago
@ScreamingScallop I believe it. I was 8 and we were driving to Florida (Disney) with 7 people in the car...when a single bee flew in, at 70 MPH, and the ensuing screaming and panic nearly crashed the car! If it wasn't a space bee, it had to have at least been a malevolent NASCAR bee.
floooky1 1 month ago
Wu-Tang!!!
detroitMC313 5 months ago
If only Nicolas Cage was in this movie
StevenTheMagicShrimp 5 months ago
The Greatest Movie of its kind ever filmed.
well, the only movie of its kind ever filmed - so many stars, so little light!
Bravo!
charvesa 5 months ago
NOT THE BEES!
Deavi783 5 months ago
Oh come on guys it wasn't such a bad movie after all. I loved it as a kid :)
DelfinoDelphis 5 months ago
I think in the first scene they were being paid by how many times they said bees, OMG Bees! lol
KnightTemplar101 6 months ago
I just made a very similar little compilation of clips from this movie. But with added corny-ness. I really should have watched this first!
MyThingsRedux 7 months ago
Is this satire?
jemsdiamondify 7 months ago 2
"No it's an entirely different sonic level" great line from this movie why not on here Micheal Caine acting is AMAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZING
custardo1 7 months ago
"LETS GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE"... no this way!
AlxFitz 7 months ago
I guess it's the combination of awful dialogue and direction and basically Caine's character being 'an entimologist' (entire character portrait there), but there's an unpleaant edge to Caine's performance. He's likeable with the kid Paul, but otherwise it's like his character from Little Voice was dropped into a hero role. It's clear Caine has contempt for what he's doing and that really shows through in his performance. This really is one of the worst films every made.
DOMuricu 7 months ago
I love this film, apparently you weren't allowed to mention it in Irwin Allen's presence after it flopped.
AlxFitz 7 months ago
Not sure why that pilot crashed the helicopter but I guess you had to "bee" there HAW HAW.
AlxFitz 7 months ago 3
Pilot: UH I CAN'T SIR...MOVIE IS SO BAD....DIALOGUE HORRIBLE.....I AM LOOSING POWER...MUST KILL MYSELF TO GET OUT OF A BEE MOVIE CAREER
snakes3425 7 months ago
What an all-time classic movie........up there with Attack of The Killer Tomatoes.
DCHurlford1 7 months ago
Dr. Krim: They're more virulent than the Australian Brown-Box Jellyfish!
thenowuk 8 months ago
This has the best line of any film from Michael Caine (sleepwalking his way to an easy pay cheque)-'The bees used to be our friends'.....................there are many others in this one tho! 'we've been fighting a losing battle against the insects for 15 years..............and I never dreamed that it would turn out to be the bees'!!!!!!!
thenowuk 8 months ago
@thenowuk Give Caine his dues though, that easy pay cheque paid for a new house for his mum (or so i read somewhere).
Regards.
David.
DCHurlford1 7 months ago
@DCHurlford1 True! I'm not criticising him!-I love the way he just did this for the cash-hisexpressions in this make me laugh as you can see he knows it's a pile of sh*t! He did the same with Jaws4 and a few others-it was worth it for that line! plus many others-'there is no bee inthis room!'
thenowuk 7 months ago
@thenowuk Cheers for the reply. Yeah no worries, i didn't think you were having a pop at him. I was just trying to make more light of a bad movie situation. Ha ha indeed his facial expressions were priceless. Connery was much the same in that ropey special effects film Meteor from the same era.
All The Best.
David.
DCHurlford1 7 months ago
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thenowuk 8 months ago
I think Irwin Allen spent all of the budgets for his next three movies hiring all the biggest stars he could find, even though many would only have one, two or three scenes before dying or never being seen again and those roles would've been better suited for extras or new comers, while spending next to nothing on hiring talented screenwriters and effects people he forgot what made Poseiden Adventure and Towering inferno good they were well written films about disasters that were possible
snakes3425 8 months ago
Irwin Allen was so caught out by Star Wars and Jaws. People didn't want to see these type of movies.
Grantwebb13 8 months ago
Wow!, I mean Meredith Baxter Birney doing that scream when she opened the door was, like...Wow!..WOW!
That's bad.
It's wrong.
Just wrong.
SousSherpa 10 months ago
This should have swept the 1978 Oscars!
TheCarlsonsRaiders 11 months ago
Jose Ferar: Billions of dollars have been made to make these nuclear plants safe. Failsafe. The odds against that anything going wrong are astronomical, doctor.
Richard Chamberlain: I appreciate that, doctor, but let me ask you with all your failsafe techniques is there any provision against killer bees.
londubh2007 11 months ago
The Bees have always been our friends. LOL how did Michael Caine keep a straight face during that line?
SuperWhitenights 11 months ago
That girl was on acid @ 6:00 seeing that giant bee after opening the door/
Necrocide187 1 year ago
"Will history blame me...or the bees?" I often wrestle with this same question.
kf18mittens39w 1 year ago 2
Michael Caine didn't read the script before he agreed to do this movie! I bet he regretted it later.
desirewalkson99 1 year ago 2
kinda reminds me of niggers
PullMyPeeper 1 year ago
Then he runs into Nicolas Cage going in the opposite direction.
norsef 1 year ago
I give this video a B.
epicdweeb 1 year ago
Could this be considered a bee-movie?
Linkster2o 1 year ago
I'm speechless.
Spartacus217 1 year ago
why are all these great actors in this piece of crap??!!
joeblowthehot 1 year ago
@joeblowthehot Michael Caine happily admits he did this film for the money. I'm sure all the others involved did it for the same reasons. You can see the pain on Richard Widmark's face as he's saying all that appalling clunky dialogue.
vanillaorchid 7 months ago
"Beehind you!"
Haw haw haw.
AugerMartel 1 year ago
How did this not win an oscar? 5:44
sianfennton 1 year ago 21
@sianfennton They were nominated for an oscar LMAO
JaySpiceNZ 8 months ago
@JaySpiceNZ Did the woman who opened the door get nominated for an oscar? 'Most unconvincing reaction to a huge bee' catagory at the 1978 academy awards? LOL
teasingme1 8 months ago
So many talented actors wasted.
NYerintransit 1 year ago 3
7:13 I kinda doubt any bee were offended.
dergeier117 1 year ago
Bees! Bees! Millions of Bees!
Although I actually respect them for showing kids being killed in this movie. Most films don't seem to have the balls to kill off anyone who isn't younger than 18 or older than 50.
But train carriages exploding.
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5:24 "By tomorrow there will be no more Africans, at least not in the Houston sector. Next week I'll be working for the Sharon Angle campaign."
msudreaming 1 year ago
God bless Michael Caine. He can star in any silly B-movie ( i.e. Jaws the Revenge) and give a oscar performance.
msudreaming 1 year ago 4
"I always credit my enemy, whatever he may be, with equal intelligence."
Considering the military's first half-dozen attempts to get rid of the bees are all miserable failures, that may not be a bad approach.
Anynom 1 year ago
Thank you for this.
vanillaorchid 1 year ago
3:26 General Air Force got a quick wit there
coyoteatquiznos 1 year ago
bzzzzzzzzzz!
Quex01 1 year ago
George Lucas, James Cameron and M. Night Shamalyan combined couldn't come up with dialouge this laughable.
Anynom 1 year ago 4
@Anynom Nor could they come up with the idea of townspeople getting killed in a train de-railment after surviving a bee attack!
msudreaming 1 year ago
This is obviously one of the roles Michael Caine has said he took just for the paycheck.
Anynom 1 year ago
Michael Caine had a few like that years ago, this being about the worst...Blame it on Rio also comes to mind@Anynom
peacemonger1967 1 year ago
1:00 hes getting fucked by those bees. BEES!
pooisavalidcharacter 1 year ago
I was rooting for the bees (millions of bees!)!
JillC2 1 year ago
It makes me sad to see Olivia de Havilland in this. She deserves better.
mrdavidjrush 1 year ago
The Swarm was certainly one big clinker of a movie. This killed Irwin Allen's movie career as the King of the Disaster Movies.
rickram1961 1 year ago
Jerry Goldsmith's score is probably the only redeeming aspect of this movie.
0:20...Who else but Goldsmith could recreate the sound of bees with an orchestra?
finalfantasyst 1 year ago 8
5:39 - 6:06 has got to be the best moment of the entire film... Sheer heaven...
kevinivers 1 year ago
I like how the train derails and explodes like they were full of C4 and gas.
MasterJediDude 1 year ago 2
Why is everyone laughing at the line " Bees! Bees! Millions of bees!!!". That's what he's confronting! It's not as if he's shouting "Sausages! Sausages! Millions of sausages!" The line is in context. What would YOU scream?
TROUSERFLAP 1 year ago
@TROUSERFLAP Because it SUCKS... That's gotta be one of the worst delivered lines I've ever heard! Plus... who the FUCK would actually react like that?!
HuDaFuK 1 year ago
@HuDaFuK I reacted in exactly the same way once. Haven't you?
TROUSERFLAP 1 year ago
@TROUSERFLAP Lol fortunately I've managed to avoid being in a helicopter that somehow crashes because a swarm of bees... fly at it.
HuDaFuK 1 year ago
@TROUSERFLAP It's not so much what he's saying but how he's saying it. I'm pretty loose when it comes to horror movies and even I found his voice to be corny.
sonrouge 1 year ago
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ravenrriddle 1 year ago
OMG what an absurd movie hahaha
boigen 1 year ago
We may never see film making of this brilliance ever again. The acting, the script, ("Bees bees ! Millions of bees !!") I never dreamed it would be the bees !
JoshuaTaylor 1 year ago
Somone call the ORKIN MAN!!!
13millsa 1 year ago
IT IS so damn serious it is fucking funny......WHY are they all screaming? Not only did Caine do this bad flic....he also did Beyond the Poseidon Adventure...AND also let's not forget...Jaws 4. A swarm of killer bees coming this way....LOL.
UFOSPACE1999 1 year ago
I used to talk about this movie a lot around my family! I got the film on DVD for Xmas 2004.
Aquarius199 1 year ago
Millions of BEEEEEEEEES, millions of BEEEEEEEEEEEEES!! AUGHHHHMYGOD
Mwgedd 1 year ago
how did Caine keep a straight face throughout this :| hahah.
WallisLad 1 year ago
You are a god for uploading this, I saw this a dew years ago and pretty much wet myself laughing...
OH NO I AM LOSING POWERR!
Dentacious 1 year ago
Ever read the novel that this film is based on? It was written by Arthur Herzog in 1974 and is much more terrifying than this lame film.
I remember seeing the movie when I was about 12 and it scared the crap out of me, as I was afraid of bees then (and still am, at age 40).
Nonetheless, this is Irwin Allen at his absolute worst...preachy and completely unrealistic.
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nacho619er 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this clip. It's hilarious. I recall this movie was actually very slow moving. Did Irwin Allen play a joke on the studio after the success of Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno? So many big names wasted in this B-grade movie. Bad acting, Bad script, Bad film sets. Til now, i can't understand how this film got an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design.
munbok 2 years ago
Well this was certainly far more fun to watch.
EvilRadiatedMonkey 2 years ago
What the hell was the last message????
Werther2000 2 years ago
This movie scared the crap out of me when I was little!!!!
angelsberg 2 years ago
Please bee fair to this movie!
JFBridge 2 years ago 17
@JFBridge nice comment
slevin75 1 year ago
"When that swarm finds out some of their friends have been taken captive, they might come back to Marysville"... this is such a great line (among many others).
Make a note: never take a bee hostage lest their brethren will put you under siege.
NPZwar 2 years ago 2
There's something magnificent in how bad this film is.
panacea999 2 years ago
Indeed, there is. Who but Irwin Allen would dare to have a derailing passenger train explode for no apparent reason whatsoever?
NPZwar 2 years ago 3
There is no bee!
There is no bee!
For sure!!!
Rodrigoteacher 2 years ago
I wish that Olivia could have this film permanently removedfrom her resume. Such a bad low for such a talented, successful woman. It makes me cringe just watching her.
InThisMyLife 2 years ago
i always credit my enemy, what ever he may be(e), with equal intelligence.
Durhandoni 2 years ago
The Man Who Would Bee King, aka The Michael Caine Mutiny.
DiAnno13 2 years ago
How did Mystery Science Theater 3000 miss this?
Anynom 2 years ago
Bees Bees! Millions of bees! Well get above them! I can't sir, I'm losing power! Aarrrgh!
FireRed808 2 years ago
"Houston of fire. Will history blame me or the bees?" CLASSIC LINE!
whatuswattingat 2 years ago 4
This is hard to watch.
SeaTac411 2 years ago
BEES!!!! MILLIONS OF BEES!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
LOL. This movie was a classic!!!!
velveetaslingshot 2 years ago
Loads of Caine's films are shit, the man has no artistic integrity whatsoever! Check out BallsEye or On Deadly Ground if you want to see how low Caine can go.
ArthurHilty 2 years ago
I'm surprised these actors could keep a straight face saying their terribly inept lines.
CinemaLover101 2 years ago
I dont think michael Caine's eyebrows move during this film...even in those shouting matches with Richard Widmark.While Caine says this is his worst film....I find it better than "On Deadly Ground"
IliveinMA 2 years ago
Doctor 1: "In all your fail-safe techniques, is there any provision against an attack by killer bees?" (Alarm goes off)
Doctor 1: "I'll take that as a no."
snakes3425 2 years ago 5
Thank goodness the letterboxing lets us enjoy the full subtlety of the director's compositions
catfacecathead 2 years ago 4
lmfao! The way they deliver their lines; it's like they knew this script was pure dreck!!
edwardianpromenade 2 years ago
You know your movie is bad when you have all these oscar winning actors and actresses in your movie, and a swarm of Bees turn out to be the best actors in the movies
snakes3425 2 years ago
For some reason, Irwin Allen loved killing off old people. Henry Fonda,Fred MacMurray, Olivia DeHavilland, Shelley Winters... I guess it was to get people upset that Grandma and Grandpa bought the farm.
writestuffla 2 years ago
This movie is an underrated classic. It may have fallen flat into the honey jar and stuck there as a horror picture, but it is a one hell of a comedy. There are moments Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker couldn't have made funnier.
NPZwar 2 years ago
You know what we should do? We should have a scene with the bees PUSHING OVER A HEAVY TRAIN and then have the passenger cars EXPLODE although they have no means to!
pianoajd 2 years ago 4
"in all of your fail-safe techniques, is there any provision against an attack of killer bees?" APPARENTLY NOT...
cygnus122 2 years ago 5
lol not one of michael caines finest moments.
cherton 2 years ago
No it wasn't. He was probably thinking "How did I go from 'Get Carter' to this crap film? Where did I go wrong?" lol
quirpco 2 years ago
Ever check him out in "Jaws: The Revenge?" He actually missed out from picking up his first Oscar (Hannah and Her Sisters) because he was filming that movie!
whatuswattingat 2 years ago
looks like the helicopter pilot just randomly crashed his helicopter for the hell of it
SuperXAsh 2 years ago
This was one of the first scary movies I had seen when I was 8 yrs old glad you posted this on here!
pinkladi29 2 years ago
I think the dialogue is even more scarier than the actual bees. Truly diabolical.
turner681 2 years ago
why does everything expload? things that cant physically blow up expload wtf
SAWgunnermk2 2 years ago
Particularly passenger(!) wagons of a train... LOL... what were they transporting? Surplus barrels of Nitroglycerin?
NPZwar 2 years ago
Oh sorry. i understand what you mean now.
DisasterFlicks 2 years ago
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DisasterFlicks 2 years ago
.....and John Williams i bet sent a thank you note to Jerry Goldsmith FOR doing The Swarm!!!! LOL
1310cirtap 2 years ago
I loved the The Towering Inferno and still do today. BUT i have always wondered about that fact. Why so many explosion??? I know it makes for good movie. BUT, why did the senic elevator on 81 blow off it's tracks??? LOL
1310cirtap 2 years ago
Why does everything blow up in Irwin Allen movies? The helicopter barely hits the ground and explodes. The train rolls down the hill, and suddenly explodes. Bees enter a nuclear plant and it somehow explodes.
Nevertheless, this is one of my many guilty pleasures.
DisasterFlicks 2 years ago 2
Oh yeah torching the city of Houston of course.
DC322 2 years ago
Way to resolve a love triangle, Irwin Allen. Blow up every character involved. Yay!
adricthealzariun 2 years ago 2
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Ed Wood made Plan 9 for 10 bucks in a studio the size of a phone booth.
These idiots had millions more and still made this piece of shite. Yet Ed is called "The Worst"
robbatkinson666 2 years ago
ROFL. I saw this on TV in the late 80's and was pretty freaked. Looking at it now...what a shitty script! I love how the General says: "I always credit my enemies with equal intelligence" and Michael Cain gives him this look that seems to say, You're a loony douchebag.
StriderIsAragorn 2 years ago
5:27 is SO wrong... what a horrible script. I loved it as a kid though.. LOL
fortheloveoflaughs2 2 years ago
This film gave me hives.
DiAnno13 2 years ago
This is high quality garbage. Garbage like this only comes around once in a blue moon. I mean, look at the talent they have in this film. Henry Fonda for God's sake! It is so bad it is good.
backinthe70s 3 years ago 2
And that reminds me of the Plan 9 from the Outer Space again,....
hungryasshit 2 years ago
....and so the school suffered a tragedy that day, as the bees attacked the grounds, ever searching for the sweet scent that came from little Johnny's big yellow lollipop....
This, ladies and gentleman, is one more reason why candy is bad for your children.
BojikArc 3 years ago
"The Swarm": produced and directed by Irwin Allen, the Master of Disaster. A real DISASTER of a movie is what this thing is.
Yet the worst episode of Irwin Allen's "Lost In Space" TV series is waaaay better than this cinematic bomb!
MR1227 3 years ago
Oh my GOD!!1 BEES1!! BEES! MILLIONS OF BEES!!!11!!1 I CAN'T SIR!1 IM LOZING POWERR!!!!11!
If I was Crane, this is how I'd cure that kid who's hallucinating the bee:
"There's not a bee in this room... There is no bee, here. If there was, it would have already landed on this bed and impaled you through your head, with its gigantic harpoon-like stinger... like THIS: BZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!"
TKA001 3 years ago 2
Hilarious dialog. Hope the actors were well paid.
fangora2001 3 years ago
they had Lee Grant and Patty Duke on the View a few years ago talking about Valley of the Dolls and how bad that was. Then they both said they were in the really worst movie ever made. Worse than Valley. The Swarm!
ra86226 3 years ago
IM LOSING POWER! AAAGGGGHHHLLL...boom.
FireRed808 3 years ago
IDK about uguys, but its pretty damn funny movie in my opuinion
FireRed808 3 years ago
I dunno about 'worst movie of the 70's' but it's def. up there.
Good montage.
FoxgloveFan 3 years ago
Stupid plot plus cheesy acting=Really awesome '70s movie
FireRed808 3 years ago
SHow this one to your kids. My dad showed me, and i could only go out with my boyfriend holding me. that was 4 years ago.
FireRed808 3 years ago
do you have the actual movie? if you do could you put it up?
gameforce 3 years ago 7
When you're 8 years old all you are interested in is what a movie is about. When you are 9 the concept of "Good and bad" begins to enter the mix. This was an enjoyable movie for the pre-mix set.
alexalex3131 3 years ago
how is this the most horrible 70's film
stormsos 3 years ago 3
Amazing how helicopters lose power and suddenly explode upon encountering some bees.
lonerook860 3 years ago 3
I love the part at 1:30. If I thought I saw giant bee hovering never to Michael Caine, I'd jump out the window!
TheKillerWithinNJ 3 years ago
The actual Swarm isn't scary, now if it was a swarm of Giant Bees that would be scary.
snakes3425 3 years ago
"By tomorrow there will be no more Africans, at least not in the Houston sector!"
KrzyCanuck 3 years ago 2
This is probably the most over the top 70's disaster movie, and that says a lot :)
filmmakerxp 3 years ago
I like it when the general mentions capturing bees. Why? Are you going to waterboard them?
KrzyCanuck 3 years ago
ah yes, the 70s were a happy time for hollywood bee wranglers. lots of work.
highway234 3 years ago 4