The Food of the Gods
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Movie Reviews of The Food of the Gods
Movie Review: But Is It Organic??
Summary: 4 Stars
About ten minutes into this film, Marjoe Gortner(who looks like Alice Cooper with a different hairdo) steps into a barn and is attacked by a giant rooster. After winning the duel with the giant rooster, Gortner leaves the barn, locks it, then turns to the old lady behind him and shouts, "Where the hell did you get those goddamn chickens?!" If you aren't just about rolling on the floor with laughter at this point, you may as well just shut this movie off and take it out of your player....coz you're hopeless. This sets the tone for director Bert I Gordon's(B.I.G. Get it?) giant animals on the rampage flick that's "Based On A Portion Of The Novel By H.G. Wells". If any film deserves to have "Midnite Movie" slapped across the box cover, it's this one. 100% popcorn munching, low budget, bad acting, schlock that's very entertaining. The Food of the Gods is a milky glop that looks like clam chowder(New England that is). It bubbles up from the ground and an old couple discover that it makes the animals grow when they eat it. Naturally they decide they can get rich off of this and whip up a plan to sell it to a sleazy corporate exec who comes to their cabin in the woods with his cute assistant, to make a deal. Hubby bites the dust before he can seal the deal however. That's not about to stop the corporate schmuck from trying to take the stuff though. Meanwhile, Marjoe and his two pals are enjoying some horseback riding nearby when one of them is stung to death by a giant wasp. There's also a pregnant woman(of course) and her boyfriend hanging around. All these people band together at the cabin of the old lady. After dealing with the wasps they realize that the biggest threat facing them is the rats. The island is brimming with giant rats that ate the Food of the Gods, and they want dessert. So we have a fight for survival that ends up looking alot like Night of the Living Dead with the people fighting off the rats while hiding in the cabin. Great stuff. Bert I Gordon uses his trademark rear-projection photography for the visual effects. That technique involves blown up footage of an actual rat in the background with the actors spliced into the foreground. The closeups of the rats chomping on victims are large puppet rat heads. Rear-projection isn't used much, especially now in the CGI age. At times it can look laughably fake, but other times it looks quite good actually, especially in scenes where the actors observe the rats from a distance. Since it's footage of an actual rat, it gives it a bit more realism, coz I always figured that even a giant rat will still behave like a rat. This was made back in the day when the PG rating had balls, so the kills are actually kinda bloody. So there you have it! You got blood, giant rats(and wasps and roosters), so-so effects, great pacing(there's never a dull moment), and Marjoe Gortner. Why the hell are you still reading this review when you should have ordered two copies by now?Movie Review: Marjoe vs. the Rats!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of two stand-alone discs from the latest Midnite Madness wave, and rightfully so, as it's one of Bert I. Gordon's better pieces, even if the giant animal effect can't be expected to withstand scrutiny three decades later. Marjoe Gortner's a semi-pro football player (!) who gets caught up fighting giant rats in the American Northwest after rural religious nut Ida Lupino feeds some of her husband's "miracle discovery"--creamy goop fresh from the ground outside their farmhouse--to her chickens. Pretty soon the local wasps and rats are enjoying the spoils of being fifty times their normal size. As with most of his "giant this or that" movies, Gordon never lays on the camp but does find small moments of wit in wild situations. Classic drive-in fare!Movie Review: Goof of the Gods
Summary: 4 Stars
Spending time watching this fantastically goofy Land of the Giants type
flic while resting back at my suite at Wrest Point hotel Tasmania brings back so many memories. I got to know this movie back to front after watching it so many times in 1979 3 years after its release. The acting was superbly bad but so watchable was the large chicken from the barn, the swarm of mosquitoes, the maggots and of course the main actors in this
littany of pure horror/fantasy,the rats, that the acting blended in so well as an accompliment to the giants of the screen. So well did I enjoy this movie back in the 70's I couldn't wait for it to be released on DVD, that I purchased 2 from Amazon. Great memories and a fabulous site to do your movie shopping.
Movie Review: themeatnpotatoesofitall
Summary: 4 Stars
B+ Movie collector's must have, Bert I Gordon directed would have gave it 5 Star
if he had done a better job with the Giant Wasp scenes. Gnaw is the title of Food of the Gods #2 couple of scenes in Gnaw that are pretty disturbing but worth a chuckle, I don't think Gordon had anything to due with Gnaw still pretty entertaining for B-Movie Horror fans. Mysterous ooze plops up out of the Ground (New Jersey where else)and has peculiar effects on the farm animals and wild life. Ignent (mispelled purposely) farmer decides to profit from it.
Movie Review: Food Of The Gods Yes, The DVD Well Excellent But not.
Summary: 4 Stars
I love this film Food of the Gods it's a classic so i had to get on DVD. well so here what you get a excellent transfer of the film in widescreen and options of either mono or stereo sound mix to listen to soundtrack in. french is in mono , so is spanish. But the downside is there are no other goodies would've it killed MGM to put a trailer and tv spots on this DVD sheesh, that's why i rated it four stars. other than that it's a great buy.
It's PG for Violence and Lauguage
Highly Recommended Film