Frogs

1972 "TODAY - THE POND... TOMORROW - THE WORLD!"
4.4| 1h30m| PG| en
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Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.

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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!
Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
hackraytex I saw this movie in a theater in 1972 and I have to say that in a darkened theater, the fear level is multiplied several times over. Fast forward 45 years and the intensity is still there.Two things are clear from all of it. One of the rules of survival in a horror movie, tongue in cheek, is to never go off alone. Almost everyone who got nailed did exactly that. It is also clear that a lot of these people's characters had not spent much time in the woods, let alone a swamp.I call myself a conservationist which is an environmentalist with common sense. This movie makes a case for sensible conservation by using the absurd. We have come a long way from when no one took seriously the problems caused by pollution, trashing the landscape, and abusive use of pesticides. We are the better for it. We who are Christians are taught that it is our responsibility to care for the animals and the landscape but we also have to balance it with the needs of humanity. This movie is a wake up call to how careless pollution and trashing the landscape is detrimental to all of us.It also appears to me that this movie may have been the inspiration to the hit series "Zoo". Also, the producers clearly learned from the master Roger Corman. You should try to watch this one if you get the chance.
Mckenzie Barkdull-Pugmire Above this move is described as; horror, mystery, and romance. I think I can safely say it fails to be all of the above. the only mystery is how in the hell they got this movie produced. the frog is possibly the most frightening creature on the planet and even though they try their hardest to make these man eating frog seem vicious it inevitably fails. All though in their failed attempt to make a cutting edge original horror movie they created now one of my favorite stupid comedies.Between the melodramatic acting and the intense double takes of an expressionless frog it's quite impossible to get through this movie with out laughing.
Stinky Lomax If any film deserves the right to have its name in the dictionary under the definition of B-Movie, it's the 1972 horror epic 'Frogs'.The plot, of course, is of only cursory relevance. But for the sake of those who give a flying proverbial, it follows the story of disabled millionaire Jason Crockett, played by Oscar-winner(!) Ray Milland, and his be-flared family who live in a palatial mansion somewhere in the swamps of Okefenokee. They are partial to a bit of careless pollution. The titular Frogs take offence to this kind of behaviour. So they wage war upon the Crocketts, and all who associate with their frog-hating kind.But you don't really want to hear about that. What you want to hear about are the meticulous production values that mark out this film as a seminal example of the genre.Gasp in amazement as you see a man in a wheelchair pull a revolver on a snake which is hanging from a chandelier. I say 'hanging', but what I really mean is 'being held by a human hand'. I know this because I can see it. Watch through your fingers as another man stumbles into a greenhouse, closes the door behind him, then fails to notice as a score of lizards (somehow) follow him inside to loiter around menacingly amongst plant pots on shelves. See how they knock over open bottles vaguely labelled 'Poison'. Shudder as the man chokes to death on the fumes. Howl in terror as seagulls swoop down on a garden to scare some protagonists - not because breadcrumbs fly across the screen in an effort to lure them. No. Definitely not. Then scream for your life as another man wrestles an alligator which has had its mouth taped shut.And all the while, the Frogs look on; leering at the mayhem they have caused without having to take a single human life themselves, because the Frogs rain down their justice with the most chilling power of all: telekinesis.Frogs: you'll croak. To death.
GL84 Joining their family for a holiday celebration, a photographer gets caught up in their struggle to survive when the local wildlife population suddenly turns on them with deadly intent and must help them get away alive.On the whole this was certainly a watchable if still really unremarkable effort. One of the few areas this one gets right is the fact of being able to effectively make the encroaching wildlife a force to be reckoned with, gathering a sizable number of beasts of all different backgrounds, varieties and deadliness to make a worthwhile run at the human group assembled. With all manner of frogs, lizards, snakes and other reptiles as well as birds and fish all involved here, the gathered army makes for quite an impressive lot and the fact that there's a constant presence here with the near-continuous croaking, screeching and calling out to each other here makes for a truly chilling time here that really gets it's worth the more it's utilized throughout here. Likewise, that alone makes the final half-hour here all the more enjoyable as it's basically a series of chases throughout the compound trying to get the remaining visitors to safety as the previous attempts fail spectacularly in a couple rather enjoyable encounters with an alligator in the swamps, a vicious spider assault out in the forest and the endless frog and snake attacks that lead throughout the finale as there's no shortage of these fun scenes throughout here. However, these are all that really work here as the film doesn't really offer much beyond that. The biggest mitigating factor is the fact that despite the best efforts to the contrary, the film is completely obvious about the hokey nature of having completely non-threatening animals turn vicious and tries several tactics to convince us otherwise that really come up short. The fact that the creatures' continuous presence is seen throughout the film always hanging out on the fringes of the property, that they never once pose any kind of active threat to the people nearby unless they're on their own is a big flaw, as they seem content to perfectly watch them go about their routine and never try any kind of attack instead of peacefully sitting around, much as the creatures ordinarily would in such an occasion. The close-ups of them constantly croaking or hopping along are nowhere near threatening as it would be just hearing the noises, and the fact that they literally have to drag the creatures on top of them during the attacks, are forced to wrestle with obviously tame and non-threatening beasts in their scenes or confuse non-poisonous species for deadly creatures makes the large majority of the attacks here quite hilarious rather than chilling. As such, with a long introduction that shows the patriarch's stubbornness as a storyline ploy rather than anything else to keep them in danger stretches the flimsy plot out far longer than it really should and makes for a really tough time getting into this one, which is another big stumbling block to overcome here. Otherwise, this one wasn't all that bad.Rated PG: Violence including violence-against-animals, Language and children-in-jeopardy.