The Bees

THE BEES opens with a huge hive of honeybees, busily buzzing away. The grim narrator tells us of our doom from these insidiously industrious insects, as they swarm and sting! Sting unwary victims in Mexico!

Sting! Sting! Sting!

It seems that these "devil bees" have been bred at a genetic research facility, headed up by Dr. Miller (Claudio Brook), who sports a thick, Marjoe Gortner-like helmet of hair that no bee could possibly penetrate.

Disaster strikes, resulting in a screaming, flailing frenzy!

Enter John Norman (John Saxon), who joins forces with Miller's widow in order to smuggle the bees into the US (!). In Mrs. Miller's cosmetic case (!!).

What could possibly go wrong?

Catastrophic nonsense erupts, as the bees become a cloud of death, stinging hapless extras in an orgy of venom-drenched slaughter!

This is yet another ridiculous entry in the "killer bees" sub-sub-genre, packed with gut-busting scenes of grown human beings swinging their arms around, and rolling on the ground like bee-covered logs! Highly entertaining, while reducing our brains to royal jelly.

BEST SCENE: The "bee parade", complete with an entire crowd under assault, hopping, jumping, and swatting to fend off the sinister swarm!

This movie is chock full of such sequences, combined with acting and dialogue that are terrible enough to make our eyes pop, and our eardrums evaporate!

Co-stars the inimitable John Carradine, who plays the same old so-and-so that he plays in all of his later movies. This time, adding a strange, impossible-to-discern, "foreign" accent. His death scene is a riot!

Watch this right now! It's a laugh-a-second classic...