The Food of the Gods
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Movie Reviews of The Food of the Gods
Movie Review: If you enjoyed microwave massacre...
Summary: 4 Stars
then you will love this movie!!! This is a 5 star movie for anybody who loves cheesy low budget sci-fi/horror. Come on, big furry giant rats, wasps, and maggots attacking canadian football players. Does it get any better? Movies like this exist for a certain audience. You know who you are. If you enjoy "The Toxic Avenger", "Microwave Massacre", and any Sci-Fi movie from the 50's, this movie is for you. Embrace the cheese.Movie Review: GREAT DRIVE-IN MONSTER MOVIE!
Summary: 4 Stars
This may be considered badder than bad, but it's fun from beginning to end and much better than any recent CGI nonsense. Besides, where are you gonna a cast like this nowadays? Don't miss it, the DVD transfer looks great!Movie Review: If He Viewed the Final Cut, H.G. Wells Would Have Rolled Over In His Grave
Summary: 3 Stars
Ida Lupino, director of the Hitch-hiker and co-star of such films as "They Drive By Night" and "High Sierra" (both with Humphrey Bogart) made her next-to-last big screen appearance in this film from Bert I. Gordon. ( "Empire of the Ants," "Picture Mommy Dead")
The plot centers on a football player and his buddy who travel to a nearby island for a few days of relaxation, when they run into a pack of wasps that has been enlarged to hundreds of times their normal size by an extract flowing from the ground that a local farmer and his wife call "food of the gods." The special effects are dated to be sure.
The surviving football player later returns and gets trapped on the island with the farmer's wife (Lupino), a scientist (who serves as the athlete's love interest), a greedy entrepreneur (who wants to market the stuff) and a young couple expecting a baby.
This odd collection encounters oversized worms, a chicken (which the hero becomes engaged in a hilarious fight with, reminding me of The Family Guy's Peter Griffin and his fowl nemesis) and a horde of mammoth rats that crawl all over the farm house where they are holed up.
Other than Miss Lupino (whose presence was no doubt the lone selling point in getting the film to market), the cast is no-name and the acting plain as a brown wrapping paper. Still, Gordon does a nice job of building tension and allowing the story to flow, and puts the heroes in situations that for the most part allows viewers to suspend their disbelief.
All in all, sometimes cheese even when a bit dated, still tastes good.
Movie Review: Where the **** did you get those *** **** chickens!
Summary: 3 Stars
Some of the best bad movies are finally arriving on DVD, and I'm happy to report that "Food of the Gods" ranks near the top of this list. I first saw this as part of a double feature at the neighborhood theatre back in the mid 70's. It was playing with "Empire of the Ants." Horror films of this time really tried to capitalize on the "giant creature attacking genre." In this case, several woodland critters get a taste of some "gunk" that causes them to turn gigantic, and apparently develop an appetite for mankind. The acting is insanely bad, but you need to know that this film wasn't shooting for oscars. At the time, everyone was making a movie about some huge creature or another (again, playing off the fame of "Jaws"). If filmmakers packaged it the right way, with a PG rating, the kids would rush out to watch it. Admittedly, the film has lost some luster over the years, and the special effects are rather lame, but if you have a sense of humor and a craving for B-movie fare, then I'd say this is a proper choice.Movie Review: A Giant Hit
Summary: 3 Stars
Good old Bert I Gordon still thinks it is the 50's. This time,
instead of radiation, giant G.I.'S and rock'n'roll hating spiders,
here is a tale of what happens when man messes with nature.
Marjoe Gortner gets stuck on an island over-run by all sorts of giant
mice, wasps, even chickens!
A farmer discovers a growth hormone and feeds it to his livestock with
predictable results. A good fun movie with Gordon's trademark
super-imposed photographic effects which hold a certain charm in these
days of lazy CGI.
A fast pace, good cast including Pamela Franklin and Ida Lupino in her
last role, and great rat costumes make this a fine weekend movie.