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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790768083
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790768089
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 06, 2002
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 32646
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 14, 1978
Editorial Review:
Description:
Irwin Allen's doomsday epic pits an all-star cast against a North American invasion of killer bees!
Amazon.com:
Legendarily chintzy 'event' producer Irwin Allen (The Towering Inferno) went out with a gargantuan buzz-on with this jaw-droppingly goofy disaster flick. No cliché is left unturned, as a hyperactive strain of hallucination-inducing killer bees get it into their microscopic brains to derail a commuter train, destroy a nuclear power plant, and otherwise decimate a veritable cornucopia of washed-up Match Game panelists (Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens, and narcoleptic dreamboat Richard Chamberlain are just a few of the legendary has-beens to get fatally stung by what appears to be airborne coffee grounds). Be sure to stay tuned through the closing credits for a (lawsuit-preventing?) coda absolving the good ol' hardworking American honeybee of any and all sinister charges depicted herein. An irresistibly hilarious chunk of honey-roasted cheese--'70s style. --Andrew Wright
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Swarm
This was really a picture of what if and I enjoyed ever bit of it.
I thought it was very well written and Richard Widmark and Micheal Caine gave such creditability to their parts. If you like sci-fi this was one that was somewhat imaginable. I gave it 3 stars.
Rating:  - wonderfully bad film clocks in at a generous 155 minutes
there are few things i cherish as mightily as fine actors chewing the scenery and or emoting false indignation the way MICHAEL CAINE does at the begining of this magnificent disaster opera . it gets better from there . all the key elements and players are fully vested for the avalanche of hilarity that greets us and throws a GRIZZLY ADAMS sized hug on us . the collective . there's IRWIN ALLEN . shepherding another great idea to an even greater canvas . if so inclined , there's a who's who of stars ... Read More
Rating:  - BAD SCRIPT, HORRIBLE ACTING!!
For a man of Irwin Allen's talent with great disaster films (Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno) to his credit, it is sad to see the result of this swarming mess!! Literally. We have a distinguished cast..many of them Oscar winners including: Henry Fonda, Olivia deHavilland, Jose Ferrer, Patty Duke, Lee Grant and Michael Caine. Add to them Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain and Fred MacMurray and you would think we would have a film worthy of Irwin Allen and his ever present script writer ... Read More
Rating: - Silly swarm.
The Swarm (Irwin Allen, 1978)
The Swarm was the nadir of Irwin Allen's career, a film so bad, that lost so much money, he forbade those around him to ever speak of it again. It's pretty easy to see why. Long considered one of the worst disaster movies ever made, and rightly so.
Plot? There's a plot? Okay, here you go: a swarm of killer bees is attacking America, and the army, along with the somewhat-coerced help of Dr. Bradford Crane (Michael Caine), has to figure out how to ... Read More
Rating:  - Over-the-Top Entertainment
First off, let me say that Darsh's review has several of his "facts" wrong. It's the Air Force...not the Army. Secondly, Richard Chamberlain and Fred McMurray both DIED (Chamberlain at the nuclear powerplant, McMurray on the train).
Yes, there were MANY technical flaws in the film. All the Irwin Allen disaster flicks (especially Towering Inferno) have gaffs in them. From day-to-night in the same scene, the plants on the outside of the upper floors of a high-rise building, among others, are ... Read More
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