Another low-budget 70's "nature runs amuck" drive-in flick only this time it's a low-rent, and quite awful, time.
John Saxon and Angel Tompkins star as scientists who have to try and stop a strain of African bees who have migrated to America and soon start attacking and stinging to death the general population.
With a script that's loosely strung together, lumbers from dumb bee attack scene to the next and weakly tries for political and environmental messages; this is a poorly written, incompetently made (really there's no point for the entire film but for people to get sprayed with obviously painted styrofoam bits in place of bees and some really priceless "shocked" looks on people - especially during the "beach" moment) and plain bad B-movie.
Unintentional laughs abounds during one scientist's groaner of a speech to natives at the beginning, John Carradine's completely over-the-top performance as a German scientist, the line "this chemical of yours will turn the bees into homosexuals?" when they decide to spray the bees with a formula that'll make them attack each other (when they set out to mate, thinking each other is the queen) and the totally ridiculous finale in the U.N. assembly (where Saxon gets to utter a crappy speech).
Just lousy.
Directed By: Alfredo Zacharias.
Written By: Alfredo Zacharias.
Starring: John Saxon, Angel Tompkins, John Carradine, Claudio Brook.
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