Thanks to Alec from Mondo Bizarro who gave me this super-silly 70s animal-schlockfest. I already punished him with the terrible adaptation of Jack Ketchum's "Offspring".
FROGS
German Titles:
Frösche / Frogs - Killer aus dem Sumpf / Die Frösche
USA, 1972
Director: George McGowan
3,5/10
The cinematography is gorgeous, there are a few highly atmospheric sequences and the acting is pretty solid (Ray Milland, Sam Elliott) - everything else is totally ridiculous and almost Troll2-ish, including one of the most atrocious scores ever used in film history, consisting only of various incoherent, deafening electronic sounds.
We get to see an awful lot of the silliest death scenes in film history:
- A few lizards enter a greenhouse and willfully throw some jars of chemicals from a rack. The place fills with poisonous gases and asphyxiate one dorky guy.
- The UBER-highlight: one idiot accidentally shoots himself into his leg (LOL) and falls on the ground where he gets attacked by MOSS(!!!), CLUMPS OF GRASS(!!!) and some TARANTULAS! Fuck yeah! :-)
I was sober while watching which wasn't a good idea. If I'm ever gonna rewatch "Frogs", I'll do it with vast amounts of booze :-)
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German Titles:
Frösche / Frogs - Killer aus dem Sumpf / Die Frösche
USA, 1972
Director: George McGowan
3,5/10
Not the worst, but by far, one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen: the infamous "Frogs", an utterly ludicrous eco-horror flick about an armada of frogs, snakes, lizards etc. attacking the inhabitants of an island estate. The movie takes itself very serious and tries hard to be as frightening as Hitchcock's "Birds", but as you can guess, the whole thing comes off unintentionally hilarious and about as scary as "Night Of The Lepus" or "Island Claws".
The cinematography is gorgeous, there are a few highly atmospheric sequences and the acting is pretty solid (Ray Milland, Sam Elliott) - everything else is totally ridiculous and almost Troll2-ish, including one of the most atrocious scores ever used in film history, consisting only of various incoherent, deafening electronic sounds.
We get to see an awful lot of the silliest death scenes in film history:
- A hysteric woman stuck in mud gets... um, attacked and... um, killed by a large and veeery slow turtle and some crabs ("Island Claws", eat your heart out).
- A few lizards enter a greenhouse and willfully throw some jars of chemicals from a rack. The place fills with poisonous gases and asphyxiate one dorky guy.
- Some leeches and rattlesnakes mercifully kill a clumsy woman who stumbles aimlessly through the forests. Her husband dies by embracing an alligator.
- The UBER-highlight: one idiot accidentally shoots himself into his leg (LOL) and falls on the ground where he gets attacked by MOSS(!!!), CLUMPS OF GRASS(!!!) and some TARANTULAS! Fuck yeah! :-)
Other silly shit:
Large amounts of frogs croaking and hopping around, tons of unscary animal stock footage, grumpy badass Ray Milland shooting a snake from a chandelier, the dumb-looking "Birds" ripoff scene, a dead body that turns blue within seconds and DJ Frog on the turntables.
I was sober while watching which wasn't a good idea. If I'm ever gonna rewatch "Frogs", I'll do it with vast amounts of booze :-)
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This movie is very silly, but I still found myself enjoying it. Also, that scene where the one dude gets covered in all that green stuff and bugs is pretty creepy.
ReplyDeleteit's somewhat enjoyable but creepy? no way, Jose :)
DeleteI'm glad to know that if I can't give you something truly Terrible (which 'Frogs' is not IMHO), I could give you something that even you consider to be silly. Mission accomplished!
ReplyDeleteI love 'Frogs' for all of the reasons you mentioned. It is painfully-slow to some in the beginning (I can see that, sure) and the overabundance of croaking can get annoying to some (granted).
My favorite part is honestly the weirdly-unbalanced nature of two of the kills. The lady who catches butterflies- horrible, violent death. The guy who kills animals for fun- very quick death. Nature is weird sometimes.
Fun fact: 'Frogs' was shot in my home state. I'm about 99.999% sure that the Mansion here- actually, a former Plantation- has been replaced with condos by now. So much for the 'Frogs Tour,' I guess.
LOL mission accomplished indeed :D
DeleteFrogs is way too slow, way to silly for me to love it about as much as you do, but I admit the kills are hilariously great.
haha didn't realize that. well deserved, you filthy butterfly murderer :D
Dang! I almost watched this movie one day... looks like I missed out (?) on a pretty terrible good time. Would love to see how a person can be killed by a turtle.
ReplyDeletePutting it back in the instant queue now :). Maybe I'll take the plunge later!
Haha, the turtle scene is just... um, awesome. Never seen something so goofy in a very long time.
DeleteLike Lepus, it's definitely something you gave to see. So dumb, so ridiculous, yet so fun :)
Frogs was always one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. It is goofy fun.
ReplyDeleteoh yes, goofy fun indeed :)
DeleteSo serious and yet so silly. Great mood, mediocre execution.
ReplyDeletetoo serious, too silly, but still quite entertaining.
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