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The Swarm (DVD)

 
Description: Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Science Fiction / Theatrical Release: 1978 / Suitable for 12 years and over / ... more
The Swarm (DVD) ... Director: Irwin Allen / Actors: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland ... / DVD released 2003-02-17 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: PAL

Newest Review: ... death would be unpleasant, but it makes for surprisingly bad cinema. The special effects aren't good - it's usually very ... more

 ... obvious that we're seeing a lot of actors flapping about pretending to be stung with a superimposed swarm of bees stuck on top of them. (Although there are a few decent shots of real bees crawling all over commendably still actors.) Sometimes the bee victims go into slow motion for their death scenes, like in a Sam Peckinpah film, which looks even sillier. Big problem number three: the science is pretty ropey. Bees die when they sting, as everyone knows. And yet there are never huge mounds of dead bees in the wake of an a...more

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The Swarm [DVD] [1978]
Legendarily chintzy "event" producer Irwin Allen (The Towering In ...
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Crowned Review The Swarm (DVD): Oh my god! Bees! Bees! Millions of bees! (1316 words)
by - written on 26/03/09 (Very useful, 201 readings)
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A review of the Warner DVD, only £3.50 on amazon at time of writing. This is a legendary turkey from 1978, a big-budget disaster movie that lost huge amounts of money. Disaster movies had been big in the 70s, and Irwin Allen had made The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, two of the biggest. So this must have seemed a surefire hit. The formula is well-known: get a load of characters with various 'issues' (hopes, rivalries, romances etc) and then have them come up against some disaster that leaves most of them dead in a welter of special effects and hammy acting. In this case, the disaster is a huge load (or 'swarm', if you will) of ...  Read the complete review

 
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