The killer bee “nature attack” sub-genre may have been kicked off with the ABC Movie-of-the-Week Killer Bees, starring Gloria Swanson and Kate Jackson, but it was The Savage Bees, airing as NBC Night at the Movie, that really got the ball rolling and its success is probably partly responsible for all the killer ant and…
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Killer Bees (1974) – Review
How can you make a low-budget made-for-television movie about killer bees seem attractive to the average television viewer? The answer is simple, cast legendary actress Gloria Swanson to star in the film, and this was the “logical” decision behind Killer Bees, an ABC Movie of the Week that resulted in what is probably one of…
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973) – Review
In 1983 Stephen King released a short novel called “Cycle of the Werewolf” which was about a boy who believed there was a werewolf in his community while others decidedly did not, and this book was later turned into a film called Silver Bullet, and while that premise may be familiar to many fans of…
It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977) – Review
With the success of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, the “Nature Attacks” genre literally exploded in the 1970s, with moviegoers seeing the likes of William Girdler’s Grizzly and Joe Dante’s Piranha flooding the theatres and drive-ins, but even the small screen was not safe from the influence of this nature-gone-wild explosion. Thus, people who tuned in to…
Empire of the Ants (1977) – Review
In what would be the fourth adaptation of an H.G. Wells story, having already made three films loosely based on the novel “Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth,” producer Bert I. Gordon would tackle the short story “Empire of the Ants” in another “In name only” adaptation, and that’s if we’re…