Eco-horror in cinema has had a rather large diversity of entries over the years, with many minions of Mother Nature getting their shot in the spotlight, from spiders, bees, ants and the like, but in 1972 a rather dubious offering hit theatres that consisted of elements most often found in the gruesome pages of an…
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The Deadly Bees (1966) – Review
The killer bee subgenre of ecological horror films was kicked off in the 1970s with such films as Killer Bees and Savage Bees, but over in Great Britain, they got a jump on things with a film based on H.F. Heard’s 1941 novel “A Taste for Honey,” a story that took a Sherlockian approach to…
Day of the Animals (1977) – Review
In the history of “When Animals Attack” movies there is one entry that stands alone, a film with a premise so goofy and wonderful that it could only be improved by a scene of Leslie Nielsen wrestling a bear, and that film is William Girdler’s Day of the Animals, a man against nature story that…
Killer Bee Movies of the 1970s
In horror films the “When Animals Attack” subgenre really carved its niche in the 1970s with such classics as Steven Spielberg’s Jaws and then in less than stellar entries like William Girdler’s Grizzly, but while Great White Sharks and man-eating bears were all well and good but there was a subgenre of that subgenre which…
Zombeavers (2014) – Review
The horror/comedy subgenre is easily one of the hardest to pull off, as what a person finds funny and what scares them are two very subjective categories, but when it works, it can be a real treat for the viewer; just look at such films as Evil Dead 2 and Shaun of the Dead for…