Also, I love that Helena closes the door on her bee hallucination at 16:16. I didn't know you could stop an imaginary bee with a physical door. Good to know.
I don't know if anyone wrote about it already, but I think that the robot parents were cast primarily for their ability to receive bees on them. Any acting skills would have been a bonus.
I can see that. Even with the bees getting their stingers clipped (at least according to IMDBee) it'd still take a lotta nerve to get covered in bees and stay still. Especially in a movie, where reshoots are pretty common.
A large amount of bee stings, in a short periods of time, can give people hallucinations. It’s a weird reaction from the Bee Venom. It seems weird in the movie, because we only associate bee stings with death or pain, not other reactions.
My dad was a special effects supervisor on this show and they did use real bees for the human interactions and what they did was that they had to unsting all the bees and they did this for hundreds of bees
The saddest part about this movie is that its actually pretty accurate with how dumb people are when they panic. People panicking caused most of the death and disaster in this movie, and in real life that's pretty much the way it really goes.
@@varanid9It’s amazing to me that you’re questioning a 2 year old comment on a really old video. It’s even weirder that I’m questioning your comment from a month ago on a really old video. This is a parade of wasted breathe.
Jesus Christ that really is Olivia De Havilland in there. She was in Gone With the Wind. And Captain Blood. Maybe she had some really pressing gambling debts that year...
That's what Hollywood actors and actresses (hey, EASY, that's what they were called back then, get off my back) did back then, have a multi-decade career of box office magic, then wash up onto shitty Made-for-TV quality movies. That or die of cancer from being in movies with John Wayne and Rita Hayworth.
I was thinking the same thing, she, Fred McMurray, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, etc. these were big hitters during the golden age of Hollywood, sad to see what they were reduced to towards end of their careers. Kinda like Joan Crawford in TROG, but Henry Fonda did redeem himself with ON GOLDEN POND.
That was the first thing I thought of when he said everything explodes. Add the bee hallucinations and The Swarm is basically a Michael Bay/David Lynch production.
U know u look back this movie had a list actors / actresses in movie at time Fred macmurray Henry Fonda Lee remick Michael caine and more couldn't help the movie that well
Don't think we'll have one of those.....actually there is an announcement that is more likely to bee....and it is MUCH more terrifying and that is the extinction of the bee.
@@bbattersby2345 I know im 4 years to late, but I just gotta ask. Dont Tornados usually have stones in them? I mean, they gotta whip up all sorts of things when they go over the land. Is Stonando something else, like a movie with a lot of stones in them? Like a Sharknado, just ... stones?
That 'magnificent acting' was only done by double Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland, one of the best actresses of all time; who starred in Gone With The Wind, and who worked in classics with Errol Flynn; who was born in 1916 and IS STILL ALIVE! Her sister was also a great Oscar winning actress too in Joan Fontaine, and they infamously detested each other. This must be the worst film with the best cast; I thought The Exorcist II would take it, but this has Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Fred MacMurray, Olivia de Havilland, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens (best name ever), Jose Ferrer, Richard Chamberlain, and to top it off, the legendary Henry Fonda! Sheesh!!! :O
I know! This awful movie has such a talented cast. When he said 'Who the hell is this woman?' I wanted to scream 'THAT'S OSCAR WINNER PATTY DUKE!' But of course, when you spend most of your time watching 'bad movies', you've probably never seen The Miracle Worker.
As the blob grew closer, the crowd listened intently. "It's a low buzzing sound!" A man exclaimed. "Wait... no it's voices! I think it's saying something!" As the dark mass descended upon the terrorized crowd 1 billion voices could be heard all faintly asking "Ya like jazz?"
Another good one, although you have no idea what a nightmare inducing movie it was when I was a 7 year old kid. I loved it so much and was convinced it was the best movie ever - back in 1978;))))
I remember watching this when I was a kid, and for a minute I thought it was a dream. I was asking so many people for the Movie name, with the only part that I remember being “a kid with a lollipop dead to bees”
I saw this movie on cable TV when I was in the 4th grade in the 70s. It scared the 💩 out of me at the time, just the images of being covered in bees. I only remember the picnic and school scenes. So many big name actors were in this movie, including the side characters: Katherine Ross, Olivia de Havilland & Patty Duke were the ones that stood out to me. Of course I was too young to know who they were at the time.
Malefizia That’s right. 50-75 stings is enough for a healthy 25yr old, with absolutely no previous allergy to bees, to have an allergic reaction and possibly die. Bee venom has horrible reactions inside the human body. With the weirdest reactions being crazy hallucinations; and setting your immune system into overdrive, where it starts attacking your own cells.
The subplot involving Fred MacMurray and Ben Johnson courting Olivia de Havilland is indeed well made enough to be a short film by it's own considering that segment was somewhat amusing and it had some of the best dialogue and performances though it's not saying much we are talking about "The Swarm" after all
13:15 "And then, when they reach the bottom, they _all_ explode?" Hey, if random things bursting into flames works for "The Simpsons," it ought to work for "The Swarm."
I withdrew from cocaine and opioids numerous times and never once sweated that profusely. That child is clearly addicted to cough syrup. He's Robi-tripping the entire film.
Wikipedia is HIGHLY unreliable... But you are in fact right on this one... The Screenplay was written more or less from the Novel... There was a script but not much of one, as the filming deadline was so tight that it was impossible to write and rewrite new drafts... Hence most of the script was more or less ripped straight from the book, Its a little inaccurate of Wikipedia to say there was NO SCRIPT... Its just it was written in a little under a day and there was not time to do any extra work!
@@justincoleman3805 "... if it’s correct why mention that Wikipedia is unreliable?" Would you want someone thinking that a broken clock was reliable just because it happened to show the right time?
@@MARRO1190 If you look at a broken clock that has the right time, then you won't know that it's broken. Obviously. You might even tell other people to look at the clock if they want to know what time it is. So they'll wind up poorly informed, and when they find out that the clock is broken, they won't trust you any longer, in case you f*ck up again and give them bad advice. Wikipedia is garbage, dawg. Believe it.
This movie was very much of its time. Irwin Allen had the 1, 2 punch of The Posideon Avdenture and The Towering Inferno and then the three strikes and out of this movie followed by Beyond the Posiedon Adventure .and When Time Ran Out. Meanwhile the Airport movies were getting more hysterical and comedic at this time making the genre ripe for parody in Airplane!
You should do a review of Cat In The Hat starring Mike Myers. Seriously this movie was nominated for a few Razzies and it just plain sucks. It is really hard to watch Mike Myers act the way he does, like a complete unfunny buffoon. Am I the only one who feels Dr. Seuss books just shouldn't be adapted into full length movies, regardless of whether they're animated or live action?
I remember watching the movie as a kid, and throughout the entire thing I was uncomfortable and terrified. It physically gave me nightmares. As for the animated ones, I really don't mind them.
I like how the backround animation is visible on the green part of the scarf of the chicken on the left of Mark's Shirt (many "of", such wow) when he moves a certain way. This happens on other videos, too.
Profound words to live by. From a most unlikely source. "I always assume the enemy is of equal to superior intelligence."- Richard Widmark's character in The Swarm. Thereby adequately preparing and strategizing. To avoid the element of surprise!
The shitiest movie with the biggest all star cast i can think of. I was like 13-14 yrs old when this came out and saw it. My dad took me to see it on one of his rare weekend visits. He passed out during the film out of drunken boredom . Seen it again about 20 years later and i had forgot just how shitty the movie was. I can not imagine them tacking on 40 MINUTES to this cluster fuck of a film. That is just plain torture. The film cast is just chalked full of Oscar , Golden Globe nominees and winners. How they got them to appear in this train wreck of a film is proof that everyone spent all their money in the 70s on coke and divorce lawyers.
Having sat through the theatrical cut, I salute your bravery diving into this uninitiated, and providing your great take on it! ... it was one of the last gasps of the Disaster Movie fad that started with The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno (both produced by Irwin Allen, who actually directed this thing) and attempting to pull in the "killer bee" scare that was constantly being brought up on the news at the time. That's why there's SO MANY "stars" and posters feature little boxes with all the famous people in the film (hey, you probably like one or two of these guys, don't you??) and plots that go nowhere. It's based on a novel that has very little to do with the plot, and because it was a big studio film, the indy film companies raced to put other killer bee movies to compete (The Bees, with John Saxon, is particularly hilarious, and The Savage Bees was a goofy TV movie where they trapped the bees in the Astrodome). Perhaps knowing how ridiculous the whole thing was, composer Jerry Goldsmith wrote the bee attack music in the key of B.
@9:47 you missed one heck of a blooper in a couple sense previous, Michael Caine and the woman get into the cafe by breaking a glass pane on the door (then, with the swarm after them, they make NO ATTEMPT to seal the broken pane), then when the man jumps through the window the pane of glass on the door is intact
Dark Corners' review ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A7Lyt-jDZmE.html ) has an entire hilarious CUT of characters referring to the bees as "Africans," including General Slater threatening to "hunt down and destroy (them) wherever they are." Jesus. Fun fact: Screenwriter Stirling Silliphant won an Oscar for In the Heat of the Night.
They filmed the train sequence (loading passengers not the crash) by my house. It was big news for my little neighborhood. This was probably the last of the Irwin Allen-oid disaster movies: they lasted like 3 hours each, and featured 90000 stars from yesteryears. Usually led by Henry Fonda and/or Shelly WInters. Heap big nostalgia push, I guess. But I remember "Earthquake" and all the "Airport" movies, and "The Poseidon Adventure" and more that escape my memory just now. It never occurred to me at the time that people would be watching 40 years later and wondering just what the heck was up with everybody fawning over Olivia deHaviland. It made perfect sense to me, especially as that was around the same year "Gone With The Wind" was being shown on TV the first time. Everybody loved Melanie Wilkes.
I actually saw this when I was 5 and it traumatized me. I was freakishly afraid of bees and the world ending by bee swarms for years. thanks. Now I see how dumb it is. I am less afraid of the future 😆😆😆
it sounds like im just few years older than but yeah this bad movie really did perpetuate the whole killer bee phenomenon of the 70’s seriously any time we were outside playing or whatever and there were bees around we’d all be like ooh watch out dont run away or the swarm will come after you i swear there were even adults back then that partially bought into the hysteria. now im just a kind of an old fat dad that would love to go back and be that kid of the 70’s again.😏👍🏼
There was a 'made for TV' movie about killer bees in the mid 90s that was pretty atrocious too. It was right around when killer bees were threatening to migrate to the US!
Hi, Mark, i'm from Brazil and i love your work, dude! All your reviews are hilarious! Congratulations. You should do a review for one of the worst movie i've seen this year: Left Behind with Nicolas Cage. It's a pile of crap and i would love to see you talking about this kkkkkk
my favourite Michael Cain quote is from when he was asked why he would do such a bad movie (jaws the revenge) and he told them "I never saw the film, but I saw the house it built me"
Wow, your kitchen layout is identical to the scene in Pulp Fiction when Bruce "Butch" Willis pops that tart into his toaster. I half expected Vincent to burst out that door in the back.
The film that literally drove you to drink! LOL! Poor Mark, you shouldn't let it bug you so much. Get it... "bug"? Bwahahahahahahahahaaa!!! Um... anyway... Great review! Yayy!!!
😂😂😂Aww man. This is still my favorite video of Mark's. Love the deadpan humor. His newest vids don't have that same dry delivery. But I love him just the same 😊
@16:00 also, if you notice carefully, ITS A DIFFERANT AMBULANCE which lead me to think that this movie wasnt originally supposed to be a drama but instead a black comic parody of the "Bug Movies" of the 1950- just like in Plan 9 from Outer Space where there is a car chase sequence where there is not only a change from broad daylight to black night but the cars are different too.
The Swarm is my favourite killer bee flick. It’s basically Towering Inferno, but with killer bees. It was nice to see Richard Widmark in it. Gripping stuff. I liked the length.
The actor who played the major was named Richard Widmark, a big name star at the time; and the little old lady was Olivia de Haviland, she starred opposite Erol Flynn and is screen icon, and yet the only actor you were able to name was Michael Caine? Kids.
Ha Antman reference. Come to think of it this movie would bee evern more hilarious if they made a George Lucas-style special edition with inserting Michael Douglas's Antman and dubbing the swarm as there's a marvel villain called swarm who's a Nazi ghost possessing a swarm of killer bees.
The pregnant woman was played by Patty Duke who was most famous for playing two roles as identical cousins on The Patty Duke Show. It ran from 1963 to 1966...........Not that it makes the plot any better, nor does it tell you ANYTHING about who her character is in the movie or why you should even care about her.......hmmmm, I guess if there is any information to be gleaned from that tidbit....it's probably that I have a very large amount of useless acting trivia floating around in my head.......F**k it....Can I get one of those shots?!?!?!
From Irwin Allen, the man who brought you other 70s disaster flicks like "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno", and cool 60s sci-fi TV series like "Lost in Space", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "Land of the Giants". "The Swarm" is in a class by itself.
I remember watching clips of this movie in Animal Planet's the Most Extreme (a top 10 list show before it was cool) whenever they talked about killer bees. In fact they used a decent amount of clips from pop culture, from this and other obscure B-horror movies (no pun intended) to Jaws to Planet of the Apes to King Kong to obscure cartoons from the 1930's. This is in addition to all of the human interviews, green computer generated scenario scenes, and extended nature cinematography that made this show a blast to watch. Not to mention a kickass soundtrack and narrator.
