Entertaining movie with more than its fair share of unintentionally overdramatic scenes {Days of Our Lives much?) such as Olivia's elongated "NOOOOOOO!!!!" or Patty Duke and Lee Grant post Valley of the Dolls teaching eachother a thing or two about chewing scenery
You know what the next swarm is don't you? yeah, that's right, flying scorpions. Think I'm kidding? Well it's gonna hurt like hell when one of those things come flying at you at 30 mph! you better start preparing.
This scared me shitless when i was like six hahaha especially the bit where the boy wakes up in hospital and hallucinates thinking a doctor has a massive bees face. Its seems so trivial now.
AKA "Planet of the Bees". Now, if someone would write a screenplay about a moving swarm of genetically-altered bees that acts as a single, collective intelligence, with each bee functioning as a single neuron, that could be an interesting and entertaining film. Would serve as a good metaphor for mob rule.
Actually, a movie was made like that. It's title was..get ready for this.."The Bees"
I vaughley remembered it when I saw it as a lil' kid. I saw it just recently, and it was pretty good. Cheesy with some silly parts here and there, but it was pretty good.
It DOES follow the premise you said here. Killer bees invade the Americas, only for one part of the swarm to mutate, becoming as intelligent as man!
And if it's "all in fun"..why would you care what I say about that jerk Obama? Why would some Canadian give 2 shits what an American thinks about his President? Ask any American if he/she gives a flying fuck who is the Prime Minister of Canada.....
@John22133 Never said I cared, just thought you were especially rude (vicious) in your comments. Don't care for him either, but you didn't see me stoop to personalized attacks. Just thought you might want to tone it down a little as these comments are "all in fun" and attitude like yours brings it down a level and ruins it for others. Not telling you what to do-just bringing it to your attention in case you would want to reign it in (as some people would). Was just trying to be friendly.
I loved these man vs nature films from the 70s. I never knew how they would somehow put together such stellar acting talent for such obvious cheesiness. Still, it was all the better for it . You see how pathetic films like this are in the Sci Fi channel era, this is an example of how to do it right. The funny thing is, everyone in the cast took the material totally serious, that made it even more effective and endearing.
Yup; Cain and his girlfriend lure them to the Houston Astrodome and hit the Airconditioning and freeze'em to death. (bees can only live within a very few degrees)
@F1N36UY Actually they did, this one just didn't have the budget. If you've ever seen "The Greatest Show on Earth", that had one of the best train crashes ever done, and that was was several years before this movie.
@John22133 Dude, I don't like Obama either, but that was just rude bordering on racist, don't you think? May want to tone it down a notch-it's all in fun.
@corbinmichael123 Why respond to something I said 2 whole months ago? And unless I woke up in China this morning, I can say whatever I please...dont like it? Too bad. I sound "racist"? You no nothing about me. My gf is black...ok? SHE calls him an ape also. And I'll repeat it...he looks like an ape. Period.
@John22133 Uhmm...How? And what about anything I said makes it sound like I'm pissed. I haven't insulted you, or ranted (as you have done), or said anything rude or offensive (as you also have done). You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder. As I said-"all in fun". Are you "trolling" (or spamming-I'm unfamiliar with the term)?
IT seemed like every 5 minutes there was a helicopter taking off...or landing. The Visual's were cheesy YES even Cheesy for back then...Bad acting from a bad screenplay. Irwin WOULD not even discuss the film with no one, after it got panned by everyone. Jerry Goldsmith's music is pretty good. BUT this is truly a dog of a film...and WHY is Michael Caine always shouting in this film? AND he went on to do another bad role in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure...WOW.
Incredible! In this trailer the newsreporter makes reference to the Okies of the 1930's leaving for greener pastures. This was brilliantly described in Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath". In the film version the main character, Tom Joad, was played by Henry Fonda. When he read the script or saw the finished film ("Swarm"), he must have been thinking TGOW, too. There's something WRATHful about having one's town being invaded by a SWARM of bees.
Actually saw this in the theater when it first came out...we were suckers for the "All-star cast" and what at the time was the latest ecological disaster...killer bees! Supposed to be a thriller...in reality, a comedy.
I watched this when it was on the late show with my dad when I was 16...we killed ourselves laughing...little did my dad know--- I was on acid! Its true!
Actually, the scenes where the actors are attacked by the bees (1:23), where they fly through the window (1:56) and other such scenes in the movie..all those were REAL bees! Saw it on the "making of" featurette.
The giant swarm sequences though, either they were painstakingly painted into the film, or they used footage of actual be swarms (although I have my doughts)
Somehow this was related to "Alien Swarm" which was a mod for HL1 and THAT was related to "Alien Swarm" Wich was a game from VALVe that relised TODAY... Youtube is trying to take the easy way out by using the names to link them.
As a kid, I loved the scenes with the flamethrowers. But as an adult, I just wonder why they didn't use a better pesticide. I know they tried something in the movie, but the bees wouldn't touch it.
What is amazing about this film was that it was made by Irwin Allen, who made 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea', 'Lost in Space', and 'Fantastic Voyage'.
I read yrs ago that they used corn flakes blowing around to simulate the 'bees'.. alcohol is a must for this one , but a great cast....Mr.Allen got cocky and thouht everything he did would be great after Towering Inferno. IMHO, still love his work, have all his movies.Good or bad. We need an Irwin Allen in hollywood again.
Those "nature vs. man" films of the '70's have a special place in my heart with all the star-studded overacting, bad effects, over-the-top moralizing. This one is no exception. If you're in the right mood, it's very enjoyable.
Oh man! Haven't seen this movie in YEARS!! I thought I was younger than the 9 or 10 I was when this came out! I'm like you--LOVE those 70's disaster all-star movies!! I'm also amazed how things look so real when you're a kid, but seeing this years later? I couldn't believe it was Irwin Allen's!!
One of the worse movies I saw as a teen. lol. In the late 70's it was global cooling, killer bees and fire ants. Today global warming. In Hollywood, the world ends tomorrow, or was it yesterday?
this movie was heavily sampled for the wu tang spin off album of the same name "the swarm" it was a good album that had a bunch of unknown members of the wu tang clan ryming over rza's tracks.
You would think that Irwin Allen would have learned his lesson after "The Swarm" (1978) not to make poor disaster movies. He ended up getting the green light to produce Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) and When Time Ran Out...(1980). Talk about a three multimillion dollar stinkers! These movies are the ultimate in bad-funny flicks. Where's MST3K when we need them?
Ive never seen this film but I got a feeling its bad, because if Michael Caine dissownes this film but not Jaws The Revenge, yea thats a bit of a give away as to what its like. It actually looks like a fun film, like Hitchcoks The Birds (only the bee version)
it was an all star acting disaster movie along the lines of Earthquake, the Airport movies, and what not. Sometimes it works, but in this case it was the seventies :)
The problem was Allen seems to have spent the almost entire budget hiring big name actors for all the roles, including bit parts that usually would be played by a newcomer or an extra, and spent almost nothing to hire a talented screenwriter. He clearly forgot what made films like Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure scary, they were well written and well made films about disasters that really could happen.
I don't really hate this movie, it's just that a lot of people die in it. Almost the entire main cast. Like the first two people, are the only survivors.
didn't Joan Collins get hers in "Empire of the Ants"? There was also another cheesy one with killer wasps and killer rats all in the same movie. That movie had the word "Gods" in it or something like that where they blow up the actual large wasp nest and mysteriously start battling very large rats. It had something to do with radioactive waste leaking into the food supply and the end of flick shows kids drinking contaminated milk. Pretty cheesy time back in the eighties on some TV stations.
thanks for bringing up the name of that movie. "Food of the Gods" would seem pretty cheesy by today's standards, but I think it was just funny how the movie went from giant wasps to rats in just one movie. The wasps were way too easy to take out by just blowing up the hive and I can't remember exactly how the rats were taken out. Could've sworn they were flooded out or something like that. Too bad no one ever thought of offering those rats poison laced cheese :)
I didn't know H.G. Wells wrote the book and I completely forgot about the giant chickens. The rats didn't even look that scary at all. But I remember how Empire of the Ants and Food of the Gods and other nature revenge type movies were bundled up of for a week of entertainment on basic TV back in the eighties during one particular summer I was in Colorado with my mom. I think Joan Collins takes the lead as being one of the leads to get killed off and she did deserve it :)
Sir, we have record of one of man's greatest and most deadliest foes. They'll make passengers turn their own buses upside down, they'll blow up a factory by ENTERING it. Holy F**king God, WHAT ARE THEY.
my kitchen got invaded by wasps. yep. they were all in the attack and made a shape of a wasps nest. becuz im only 11 my mum wudnt believe me or my sis. weeks later my sis poked a hole through the ceiling and legged it. it was swarmin with em so we had to call the exterminator. IT WAS GOOD MY SIS POKED A HOLE CUZ THEY CAN GROW TO THE SIZE OF AN ARMCHAIR AND IF DAT FELL WHILE WE WERE IN THERE!!!! my god, my sis save me and my mums life x thank heavens for that
LOL. Those passenger cars were also transporting all the fuel for the flame thrower guys. The Bee's with there "limitless power" knew this, and stopped us before we had a chance! Isn't it obvious!! =P
There was another "killer bee" movie mostly set in the Louisiana Superdome that I saw some years back--a bit more frightening than Swarm, which I also saw in the early 70s after moving to Arizona (we've got tons of those african beehives here)They've always frightened me even till this day! :-(
yea this was one one of those films that were trying to follow the success of the Hitchcock's the birds" but yeah its scary cuz in real life i was attacked by a swarm of bees as a kid
I remember this movie scaring the living snot out of me back in 1986 when I was 10. I guess it must have been a childhood thing, but it still scares me a little today. I never saw the ending either :(
Irwin Allen was good at casting a ton of elderly actors in his movies... people he could relate with but no one else. My favorite scene was the giant bee hallucination. If i saw a giant bee hover over my bed - I'd run screaming like crazy! You have to post that scene!
Funny how Lee Grant plays a news reporter by the name of Ann MacGregor...that is exactly the same name of the character Lee Meriwether played in Irwin Allen's TV series, "The Time Tunnel". Notice 'computers' from that series in the missile base and nuke plant.
No, Slim Pickens leaves with his son in a body bag and he's never seen again. Of course, he showed up in "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" with -- you guessed it -- Michael Caine.
Entertaining movie with more than its fair share of unintentionally overdramatic scenes {Days of Our Lives much?) such as Olivia's elongated "NOOOOOOO!!!!" or Patty Duke and Lee Grant post Valley of the Dolls teaching eachother a thing or two about chewing scenery
OMGRyanBurgos 1 month ago
You know what the next swarm is don't you? yeah, that's right, flying scorpions. Think I'm kidding? Well it's gonna hurt like hell when one of those things come flying at you at 30 mph! you better start preparing.
bobob0000 1 month ago
This scared me shitless when i was like six hahaha especially the bit where the boy wakes up in hospital and hallucinates thinking a doctor has a massive bees face. Its seems so trivial now.
ProductsFromTheBrain 1 month ago
Get Inside! The Bees are coming get inside!!!
Mr66D 2 months ago
I the part where where the trailer guy is like "Man is their enemy" and the next shot is of them trying to escape. lol
MsSlashgirl 5 months ago
Why don't they nuke them
commonperson1 5 months ago
@commonperson1 it's too easy
Mr66D 1 month ago
AKA "Planet of the Bees". Now, if someone would write a screenplay about a moving swarm of genetically-altered bees that acts as a single, collective intelligence, with each bee functioning as a single neuron, that could be an interesting and entertaining film. Would serve as a good metaphor for mob rule.
TheSnowballEarth 5 months ago
@TheSnowballEarth ...and maybe John Carpenter could direct.
TheSnowballEarth 5 months ago
@TheSnowballEarth
Actually, a movie was made like that. It's title was..get ready for this.."The Bees"
I vaughley remembered it when I saw it as a lil' kid. I saw it just recently, and it was pretty good. Cheesy with some silly parts here and there, but it was pretty good.
It DOES follow the premise you said here. Killer bees invade the Americas, only for one part of the swarm to mutate, becoming as intelligent as man!
Look it up here on Youtube. ;)
DaChristian101 1 week ago
Brought to you by the vuvuzela.
MrThePandaman 5 months ago
20 years ???
GuyLakeman 6 months ago
ride in thorpe park themed to this and is opening next year!
TheCoasterrus 6 months ago
In 1978,our school got swarmed by bees after boys ripped a hive full of them out of a tree in the school grounds
Boys were running and waving their arms to away the bees just like in this movie.
True!
Art imitating life,tho no-one died,the boys at my school really deserved what they got
Lookinland 6 months ago
"my name is micheal caine AND THOSE BLADDY BEES ARE COMING"
tonymontana1974 7 months ago
Bees, my god!
Ericthebearjew1 7 months ago
"The killer bees are coming". LMAO.
bobgrantsbus 7 months ago
My god I love the info section of this video. Good to know I DO have a soulmate out there, lol
mariahjae 7 months ago
And if it's "all in fun"..why would you care what I say about that jerk Obama? Why would some Canadian give 2 shits what an American thinks about his President? Ask any American if he/she gives a flying fuck who is the Prime Minister of Canada.....
John22133 7 months ago
@John22133 Never said I cared, just thought you were especially rude (vicious) in your comments. Don't care for him either, but you didn't see me stoop to personalized attacks. Just thought you might want to tone it down a little as these comments are "all in fun" and attitude like yours brings it down a level and ruins it for others. Not telling you what to do-just bringing it to your attention in case you would want to reign it in (as some people would). Was just trying to be friendly.
corbinmichael123 7 months ago
@John22133 What makes you think I'm Canadian?
corbinmichael123 7 months ago
Damn bees!
richardmcdonaldmma 8 months ago
6 people don't like being invaded by an enemy far more lethal than any human force!
chain0fflowers 8 months ago
I loved these man vs nature films from the 70s. I never knew how they would somehow put together such stellar acting talent for such obvious cheesiness. Still, it was all the better for it . You see how pathetic films like this are in the Sci Fi channel era, this is an example of how to do it right. The funny thing is, everyone in the cast took the material totally serious, that made it even more effective and endearing.
Thumbs up for the future Alfred Pennyworth
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the dialogue in this movie is hilarious.
acidqueen69 9 months ago
Its like the birds!
LydiaMakesMovies 9 months ago
I always hated bees.
bren97122 10 months ago
Yup; Cain and his girlfriend lure them to the Houston Astrodome and hit the Airconditioning and freeze'em to death. (bees can only live within a very few degrees)
skrat5 11 months ago
wow that train crash looked so "real" lol it was like a toy train lol...but i guess they dint have the effects back then
F1N36UY 11 months ago
@F1N36UY Actually they did, this one just didn't have the budget. If you've ever seen "The Greatest Show on Earth", that had one of the best train crashes ever done, and that was was several years before this movie.
IreneSharda3 10 months ago
That trailer sounded like something out of Fox News.
corbinmichael123 1 year ago
@corbinmichael123 Yea I agree. Even worse than that....there was an ape in the picture....it looked exactly like Obama....amazing.
John22133 10 months ago
@John22133 Dude, I don't like Obama either, but that was just rude bordering on racist, don't you think? May want to tone it down a notch-it's all in fun.
corbinmichael123 8 months ago
@corbinmichael123 Why respond to something I said 2 whole months ago? And unless I woke up in China this morning, I can say whatever I please...dont like it? Too bad. I sound "racist"? You no nothing about me. My gf is black...ok? SHE calls him an ape also. And I'll repeat it...he looks like an ape. Period.
John22133 8 months ago
@John22133 Like I said. It's all in fun. You don't seem to get that. Watch that blood pressure. It'll kill you.
corbinmichael123 8 months ago
@corbinmichael123 Blood pressure's perfect....122 over 80. You're pissed because I made you eat your words. Goodbye.
John22133 7 months ago
@John22133 Uhmm...How? And what about anything I said makes it sound like I'm pissed. I haven't insulted you, or ranted (as you have done), or said anything rude or offensive (as you also have done). You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder. As I said-"all in fun". Are you "trolling" (or spamming-I'm unfamiliar with the term)?
corbinmichael123 7 months ago
IT seemed like every 5 minutes there was a helicopter taking off...or landing. The Visual's were cheesy YES even Cheesy for back then...Bad acting from a bad screenplay. Irwin WOULD not even discuss the film with no one, after it got panned by everyone. Jerry Goldsmith's music is pretty good. BUT this is truly a dog of a film...and WHY is Michael Caine always shouting in this film? AND he went on to do another bad role in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure...WOW.
UFOSPACE1999 1 year ago
@UFOSPACE1999 Yes he did. And he also did Jaws the Revenge lol. Michael Caine has been in some real duds.
daysfan79 11 months ago
Will Ferrell!!! 0:46
DragonSpikeXIII 1 year ago
Incredible! In this trailer the newsreporter makes reference to the Okies of the 1930's leaving for greener pastures. This was brilliantly described in Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath". In the film version the main character, Tom Joad, was played by Henry Fonda. When he read the script or saw the finished film ("Swarm"), he must have been thinking TGOW, too. There's something WRATHful about having one's town being invaded by a SWARM of bees.
slmacph 1 year ago
there isn't a movie after john saul's book?
TheDegetica 1 year ago
We're going to need a BIG rolled up newspaper...
TheBAAADKitty 1 year ago
i somewhat feel like i just watched it
ogichiseo 1 year ago
There remaking The Swarm!
TheWarlord900 1 year ago
Hahahaha these 70's movies are still awesome. I remember watching this on tv as a kid at my grandparents. Wicked.
prorobo 1 year ago
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glanzi11 1 year ago
Actually saw this in the theater when it first came out...we were suckers for the "All-star cast" and what at the time was the latest ecological disaster...killer bees! Supposed to be a thriller...in reality, a comedy.
tekocat 1 year ago
lol "we have been invaded"
Hawktotalwar 1 year ago
I watched this when it was on the late show with my dad when I was 16...we killed ourselves laughing...little did my dad know--- I was on acid! Its true!
peacemonger1967 1 year ago
Ah, the great battle--man vs. styrofoam pellets
insdmia 1 year ago 5
@insdmia
Actually, the scenes where the actors are attacked by the bees (1:23), where they fly through the window (1:56) and other such scenes in the movie..all those were REAL bees! Saw it on the "making of" featurette.
The giant swarm sequences though, either they were painstakingly painted into the film, or they used footage of actual be swarms (although I have my doughts)
DaChristian101 1 week ago
jesus who wasn't in this movie...AND HENRY FONDA. No ensemble disaster film would be complete without him.
buttercremehonda 1 year ago
one of the funniest movies i have ever seen and its not even a comedy. So bad you have to watch it
coolskater187 1 year ago
For me, this would be the ultimate scary movie - which I will never watch! lol ;)
lizziebee116 1 year ago
Somehow this was related to "Alien Swarm" which was a mod for HL1 and THAT was related to "Alien Swarm" Wich was a game from VALVe that relised TODAY... Youtube is trying to take the easy way out by using the names to link them.
BillGates111studio 1 year ago
As a kid, I loved the scenes with the flamethrowers. But as an adult, I just wonder why they didn't use a better pesticide. I know they tried something in the movie, but the bees wouldn't touch it.
MasterJediDude 1 year ago
hahaha that mans name is slim pickings haha
LLMAXG 1 year ago
"WHEN ARE WE GONNA STOP this massacre" LOL!
rjkral 1 year ago
I remember this movie....AWESOME!
NYCFire331 1 year ago
Luckily the bee population is kept from growing exponentially by little kids with magnifying glasses.
Legionwizard 1 year ago
a lot of big names
claudelebel55 1 year ago
What is amazing about this film was that it was made by Irwin Allen, who made 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea', 'Lost in Space', and 'Fantastic Voyage'.
Barnstormer1969 1 year ago
i cant wait 'til this comes out!
mrfourtysevenman 1 year ago
"It is more than just a speculation, it is a prediction..." Um.. huh ?
JoshuaTaylor 1 year ago 23
@JoshuaTaylor
I don't get the tagline either.
kapat12724 1 year ago
@JoshuaTaylor Yes, even the trailer had lousy dialog.
msudreaming 1 year ago
@JoshuaTaylor worst tag line ever.
goodguysdoll 1 year ago
So just wait for some cold weather.
Whomey 1 year ago
whahaha one of the worst movies evver and also like jaws, a stigma on a species which give a wrong massage .... that asides realy horrible movie
Ni83co 2 years ago
Oh come on. Just kill them all with a ruler or spit on them or something,they won't like that.
Gazzaaman 2 years ago
This movie was so bad, so deliciously bad.
jabezscratch 2 years ago
Bees! Your guns are useless!
ScottLuby 2 years ago 2
That's What Flamethrowers are for.
beastmiester 2 years ago
Is there a film in the 70's where Lee Grant DOESN'T have a total meltdown?
hardtechnoboy 2 years ago
I always read "Stirling Silly Elephant" ....somehow very fitting for this movie.
freak1945 2 years ago
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arielstorm 2 years ago
I read yrs ago that they used corn flakes blowing around to simulate the 'bees'.. alcohol is a must for this one , but a great cast....Mr.Allen got cocky and thouht everything he did would be great after Towering Inferno. IMHO, still love his work, have all his movies.Good or bad. We need an Irwin Allen in hollywood again.
arielstorm 2 years ago
2012
KungFuCrypto 2 years ago
Cheese, cheese, glorious cheese!
Those "nature vs. man" films of the '70's have a special place in my heart with all the star-studded overacting, bad effects, over-the-top moralizing. This one is no exception. If you're in the right mood, it's very enjoyable.
FiendsInRedSatin1 2 years ago
Thanks for uploading this trailer!
Most people don't care for this movie, but I think it's one of Irwin Allen's best!
If you are interested, I have this movie on my channel!
oldclassicmovies2 2 years ago
Actually, not a bad movie. Can Hollywood nowadays ever assemble a great all star cast like this??
xtroxtro1 2 years ago 3
¿COMO CONSIGO LA PELICULA?
ferni31 2 years ago
Oh man! Haven't seen this movie in YEARS!! I thought I was younger than the 9 or 10 I was when this came out! I'm like you--LOVE those 70's disaster all-star movies!! I'm also amazed how things look so real when you're a kid, but seeing this years later? I couldn't believe it was Irwin Allen's!!
TGilmoreX 2 years ago
One of the worse movies I saw as a teen. lol. In the late 70's it was global cooling, killer bees and fire ants. Today global warming. In Hollywood, the world ends tomorrow, or was it yesterday?
switchstand 2 years ago
good trailer for a b movie!
only257 2 years ago
HOW MANY STARS ARE IN THIS MOVIE
Jazinus666 2 years ago
Michael Caine was totally sleepwalking through this movie.
sugreev2001 2 years ago
Is that Austin Powers' fasha??
roksdude 2 years ago
i wish they'd release the theatrical version of this movie. the extended one is just too long for me.
CinemaLover101 2 years ago
Wow, a great trailer for a great movie.
Thanks for posting it!!!
If you are interested, I have this movie uploaded.
oldclassicmovies 2 years ago
Oh man, what a cast!!
tommyt1971 2 years ago
yeah:))
ThePrikoki 2 years ago
this movie was heavily sampled for the wu tang spin off album of the same name "the swarm" it was a good album that had a bunch of unknown members of the wu tang clan ryming over rza's tracks.
MSNGR415 2 years ago
You gotta LOVE the 70s! NATURE FIGHTS BACK...AGAIN!
paddy9465 2 years ago
You would think that Irwin Allen would have learned his lesson after "The Swarm" (1978) not to make poor disaster movies. He ended up getting the green light to produce Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) and When Time Ran Out...(1980). Talk about a three multimillion dollar stinkers! These movies are the ultimate in bad-funny flicks. Where's MST3K when we need them?
bearfedway 2 years ago
Ive never seen this film but I got a feeling its bad, because if Michael Caine dissownes this film but not Jaws The Revenge, yea thats a bit of a give away as to what its like. It actually looks like a fun film, like Hitchcoks The Birds (only the bee version)
mintyspace 2 years ago
One of Michael Caine's "I did it for the money" movies
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hi10207 2 years ago
the movie had a good concept, not the worst movie I've ever seen but the acting, well left a little bit to be desired.. Not a bad movie though
moviegoer167 2 years ago 8
it was an all star acting disaster movie along the lines of Earthquake, the Airport movies, and what not. Sometimes it works, but in this case it was the seventies :)
shaithis45 2 years ago
@moviegoer167 WRONG! It is a bad movie.
goodguysdoll 1 year ago
@goodguysdoll Like I said, it was a good concept, just the worst acting I think I've ever seen....
moviegoer167 1 year ago
@moviegoer167
The problem was Allen seems to have spent the almost entire budget hiring big name actors for all the roles, including bit parts that usually would be played by a newcomer or an extra, and spent almost nothing to hire a talented screenwriter. He clearly forgot what made films like Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure scary, they were well written and well made films about disasters that really could happen.
snakes3425 8 months ago
ez a film a gyilkos méhek?
19800327tomi 2 years ago
And they call this movie a disaster! looks pretty enough to me!
bogercs 2 years ago
I don't really hate this movie, it's just that a lot of people die in it. Almost the entire main cast. Like the first two people, are the only survivors.
adricthealzariun 2 years ago
didn't Joan Collins get hers in "Empire of the Ants"? There was also another cheesy one with killer wasps and killer rats all in the same movie. That movie had the word "Gods" in it or something like that where they blow up the actual large wasp nest and mysteriously start battling very large rats. It had something to do with radioactive waste leaking into the food supply and the end of flick shows kids drinking contaminated milk. Pretty cheesy time back in the eighties on some TV stations.
shaithis45 2 years ago
Yer thinking of "Food of the Gods"...giant wasps and rats, etc.
ghostwriter74 2 years ago
thanks for bringing up the name of that movie. "Food of the Gods" would seem pretty cheesy by today's standards, but I think it was just funny how the movie went from giant wasps to rats in just one movie. The wasps were way too easy to take out by just blowing up the hive and I can't remember exactly how the rats were taken out. Could've sworn they were flooded out or something like that. Too bad no one ever thought of offering those rats poison laced cheese :)
shaithis45 2 years ago
I didn't know H.G. Wells wrote the book and I completely forgot about the giant chickens. The rats didn't even look that scary at all. But I remember how Empire of the Ants and Food of the Gods and other nature revenge type movies were bundled up of for a week of entertainment on basic TV back in the eighties during one particular summer I was in Colorado with my mom. I think Joan Collins takes the lead as being one of the leads to get killed off and she did deserve it :)
shaithis45 2 years ago
I have this movie and I love it!! So bad it's good!! The cast is amazing though.
DisasterFlicks 2 years ago
Cardiopep?
secretbint 2 years ago
Hahaha I love this movie...
2muchmark 2 years ago
Beautiful.
DeadJerker 3 years ago
One of the best "B" movies out there! So outlandish, so crazy, so much fun!
cultcuts1328 3 years ago
The actors in this flick were rediculous...
pjstudevent 3 years ago
there is supposed to be a new "THE CAR" coming out this year!!
SP3751 3 years ago
Are you serious!?
pjstudevent 3 years ago
that would be good if there was a remake of "The Car". The original was also very good.
shaithis45 2 years ago
Just nuke the swarm, ya frickin idiots.
TKA001 3 years ago
I'd give the ending away TKA001, but rather you saw for yourself.
shaithis45 2 years ago
ha ha like 20 actors ha ha and the train was such a model :P
Serplanter 3 years ago
I think they did the exact same thing with "Earthquake" Serplanter
shaithis45 2 years ago
I love the cheesy animation!!! Go '70s!!!
FireRed808 3 years ago
I saw this trailer before Superman The Movie in 1978. I was six. This trailer scared me. Now...at 36...I'm good! Classic!
privatemellish 3 years ago 3
Nice flame throwers
"you're only supposed to blow the bloody bees down!" lol
KermitsGreenAss 3 years ago
Apparently, Irwin Allen used some props from Lost in Space and Tunnel for this production.
akear 3 years ago
In other news.... BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'S!!!!!
ALARM! ALARM!
Sorry. Sea lab 2021 reference.
FirstWave12 3 years ago
this is so incredibly bad
Stryke79 3 years ago 3
list of actors... ugh
Yuksu93 3 years ago 2
And most of them are dead now lol.
Saphire123456 3 years ago
Sir, we have record of one of man's greatest and most deadliest foes. They'll make passengers turn their own buses upside down, they'll blow up a factory by ENTERING it. Holy F**king God, WHAT ARE THEY.
Err...bees. WHAT?!
Espio360 3 years ago
Michael Caine is hilarious in this. One of his greatest performances ever!!
jeremizle 3 years ago
The movie sucked. The book the movie is based on, however, is terrifying.
hawaii50mike 3 years ago
It is more than speculation....It is a PREDICTION!
newbornwandertoyota 3 years ago
I was 10 years old, as i saw this movie first time. Now i´m 33 years old and i love this good old classic!
slevin75 3 years ago
my kitchen got invaded by wasps. yep. they were all in the attack and made a shape of a wasps nest. becuz im only 11 my mum wudnt believe me or my sis. weeks later my sis poked a hole through the ceiling and legged it. it was swarmin with em so we had to call the exterminator. IT WAS GOOD MY SIS POKED A HOLE CUZ THEY CAN GROW TO THE SIZE OF AN ARMCHAIR AND IF DAT FELL WHILE WE WERE IN THERE!!!! my god, my sis save me and my mums life x thank heavens for that
LilkaiD90 3 years ago
this movie makes me want to die
SovietSpymaster17 3 years ago
THEY want THEIR hony back!
hoiia 3 years ago 3
SLIM PICKINS!
NaveNinja 3 years ago
LOL use insect spray! lol theyre doing that to protect their queen
ChewinggumXD 3 years ago
Just Nuke The damn Bugs!!
KillerWhales1951 3 years ago
Mightiest NUKE EVA! XD
Deathwish7777777 3 years ago
Well I dont mind 'em stinging Michael Cain!
lilynick1 3 years ago
how could a little bee have limitless power
ascwevtry56u7yjkyuh 3 years ago
Loved the way the PASSENGER cars of the train all went up in big fireballs. No wonder the bees wanted us dead, humans blow up real good! :D
pbanta62 3 years ago
LOL. Those passenger cars were also transporting all the fuel for the flame thrower guys. The Bee's with there "limitless power" knew this, and stopped us before we had a chance! Isn't it obvious!! =P
mungabba 3 years ago
thats scary
sangyuni96 3 years ago
shhuuurree bees makes alot of seance i mean dont they die after they sting sombody? why do they hate us what we do they can have there damned hunny
sg1053 3 years ago
ive seen this movie back than when i was i sweet child heehe
sneyder69 3 years ago
Watched this on Chiller tv last night, I remember seeing it the theater when I was 10 lolz.
megatrends 3 years ago
Dude. It's prediciton!!!
mawoh 3 years ago
This has a great Jerry Goldsmith score.
wannabefilms 4 years ago
god damn bees will be the death of us I tell ya!
LVentertainer 4 years ago
There was another "killer bee" movie mostly set in the Louisiana Superdome that I saw some years back--a bit more frightening than Swarm, which I also saw in the early 70s after moving to Arizona (we've got tons of those african beehives here)They've always frightened me even till this day! :-(
WarlordFeyd 4 years ago
Don't forget The Deadly Bees. As featured on MST3K.
arferdaley 3 years ago
yea this was one one of those films that were trying to follow the success of the Hitchcock's the birds" but yeah its scary cuz in real life i was attacked by a swarm of bees as a kid
sacrificaltotem 4 years ago 4
This Movie Scared me away from Bees it's still in effect!
chrisvscrispychicken 4 years ago 3
I remember this movie scaring the living snot out of me back in 1986 when I was 10. I guess it must have been a childhood thing, but it still scares me a little today. I never saw the ending either :(
arferdaley 4 years ago 2
I saw this on tv also, around the same time, and I was around your age (I was born in 1977). I was traumatized!
ronaldsf 4 years ago 3
Much respect, dude. As silly as it might sound, I don't think I could even watch the whole thing today...it would still scare me (saddo eh!)
arferdaley 3 years ago
Irwin Allen was good at casting a ton of elderly actors in his movies... people he could relate with but no one else. My favorite scene was the giant bee hallucination. If i saw a giant bee hover over my bed - I'd run screaming like crazy! You have to post that scene!
TheKillerWithinNJ 4 years ago 3
Funny how Lee Grant plays a news reporter by the name of Ann MacGregor...that is exactly the same name of the character Lee Meriwether played in Irwin Allen's TV series, "The Time Tunnel". Notice 'computers' from that series in the missile base and nuke plant.
MR1227 4 years ago
just finished watching it on dvd loved it I jsut forgot how loong it is!!
5916michelangelo 4 years ago 2
Does slim pickens die?Also does Michael Caine sacrifice himself like Gene HAckman did in the posiedon Adventure?
alexfrJAWS 4 years ago
wow, i don't remember if slim dies. i'd have to go back and rewatch. he might have been on the train that crashes.
michael caine does not sacrifice himself, but he does go around the entire movie yelling at the skeptics about what big idiots they are.
deadenddrivein 4 years ago
No, Slim Pickens leaves with his son in a body bag and he's never seen again. Of course, he showed up in "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" with -- you guessed it -- Michael Caine.
MasterJediDude 4 years ago
oh yeah, yeah. you're right! how could i have possibly forgotten such a moving classic hollywood moment!
deadenddrivein 4 years ago
I just bought this dvd on ebay cant wait to see it again the last time I saw it was on free tv back in the early 80's and it rocked!!
5916michelangelo 4 years ago 2
This is the movie that turned producer Irwin Allen from the Master of Disaster to the King of Schlock!
To think he made the ultimate disaster film, "Poseidon Adventure", only six years eariler! How the mighty have fallen!
MR1227 4 years ago 2
LOL at 1:51 I didn't know a train car can blow up.
Starbase375 4 years ago
in an irwin allen movie, anything can blow up at any time for any reason. fact.
deadenddrivein 4 years ago