3.7
“Monsters by the millions - and they're all for real!”
The Swarm (1978)
June 26, 19781h 56mEN
5.0
196 votes
Overview
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
Director
Irwin AllenWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$21.0M
Revenue
$7.7M
Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Ragnar_Danneskjöld
Before we had Murder Hornets...We had THE SWARM!!!! In the 70s, this was one of the media's tools to terrify the populace. Unbelievably as it may seem, when released this movie scared the pants off of America in the same way that Jaws did when it made it to the theaters. The Killer Bee swarms in South America, created in cross-breeding African and Western Honeybees, of course had to share the stage with the other big threats of the day: The Upcoming Global Ice Age and Nuclear Power Plant disasters, both of which also made minor appearances in this film. Nevertheless, the fashionable fear in…
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