![]() ![]() Not just one train car explodes four do, in sequence. Not just one helicopter has to hit the ground and explode he needs two. ![]() He puts the killer bees in Texas where they've wiped out a missile base, downed two helicopters, precipitated a train crash, decimated small town and forced the evacuation of Houston.Īll this is done with typical Allen overstatement. While there have been numerous deaths attributed to the bees in South America, not a single African bee has been positively identified, even as far north as Central America.Īllen fudges the facts, and that's that makes "The Swarm" a real candidate for inciting public mass hysteria. Ever since 1956, when 26 belligerent queen bees escaped from a Brazilian laboratory, researchers have debated how violent the mutant strain might become and how far the plague might spread. What makes the "The Swarm" so potentially unerving is the little amount of scientific knowledge that's been gleaned about African killer bees. Bees are a much more immediate presence in most people's lives, and Allen has coverted every man's fear of a simple title sting into a maniacal life and death struggle. While subtlety has never been a strong theme in Allen's films, "The Swarm does manage to turn the industrious little honeybee into a menace so seemingly convincing that America may go bee-crazy this summer.įorget about sharks, forget about skyscrapers, forget about inverted cruises, and forget about Hitchcock's birds. After capsizing an ocean liner in The Poseidon Adventure" and torching a skyscraper in "The Towering Inferno," director Irwin Allen yesterday unleashed his latest catastrophic vision on 1,400 movie theaters across the country: "The Swarm," a tale of havoc wreaked by roving bands of African killer bees. ![]()
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