Spooky Halloween: The Swarm
So in my "long day's journey into emotional sterility" I watched a few 70s disaster films. In 1975, Jaws became the first blockbuster of a young Stephen Spielberg, and the Jaws-like subgenre was a kind of disaster film, except one where the disaster had intention. Rob Hill of the Bad Movie Bible has you covered if you want to know more. For Spooky Halloween, I thought I'd do another favorite...horror? film of mine, which is definitely a disaster: the Swarm, from 1978. The Swarm is about swarms of angry killer bees, and it was directed by Irwin Allen, the producer/director of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. In fact, the cast and crew are all recognizable names, especially if you know period disaster films. It stars Michael Caine as a heroic entomologist, Dr. Bradford Crane, and in the first sentence of description, it has already gotten silly. This movie is basically an alien invasion film, where the aliens were replaced by bees...