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The Bees [Blu-ray/DVD Combo]

John Saxon (Actor), Angel Tompkins (Actor), Alfredo Zacarias (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Horror
Format	Widescreen, NTSC
Contributor	Alfredo Zacarias, John Carradine, John Saxon, Angel Tompkins
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 32 minutes

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An attack on a Brazilian research apiary leads to swarms of South American killer bees on the loose in the United States, where no one-from marchers at the Pasadena Rose Parade to the U.N. General Assembly-is safe from their deadly sting. Is there a way to end the lethal aerial attacks? John Saxon, Angel Tompkins, and John Carradine star as scientists looking for a way to stop the bees bee-fore it's too late. Director’s cut; 92 min. Two-disc set.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.93 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ VS-104
Director ‏ : ‎ Alfredo Zacarias
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Widescreen, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 32 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ February 23, 2016
Actors ‏ : ‎ John Saxon, Angel Tompkins, John Carradine
Studio ‏ : ‎ Vinegar Syndrome
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01AL9O0EQ
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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electroaddict

Not the bees!!!

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2018

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As others have stated, this DVD transfer is quite terrible. The Cheezy Flicks company certainly isn't known for its quality productions. Poor visuals aside, this movie is downright ridiculous (in a highly entertaining way). Sure, there are plenty of boring segments (long-winded pseudo-science babble and dull political intrigue), but the bee attack scenes are comically awesome. At one point even former US President Gerald Ford is swarmed by the deadly invaders! This movie is so truly awful, it almost borders on PARODY! The soundtrack is horrendous... it sounds like rejected tunes from The A-Team television show. And John Carradine puts on a phony foreign accent (that's reminiscent of an elderly Bela Lugosi). I could list flaws for DAYS, but it's just better if you watch the movie yourself. Hopefully someday a legit distribution company will release this film in a properly restored manner.

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Robert I. Hedges

"You Have To Listen To What the Bees Have To Say!"

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2010

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"The Bees" is a typical 1970's creatures-gone-amok film with appallingly bad special effects, a lot of scenery chewing from the actors (particularly John Carradine, surprise, surprise...,) and a truly outlandish plot that starts with a honey theft in Mexico and ends with John Saxon brokering a peace agreement between the bees and the UN. Seriously.

John Norman (Saxon) is a noted bee scientist, and he and recently widowed fellow entomologist Sandra Miller (Angel Tompkins) try to save the world from the mutant bees that were bred for their royal jelly by nasty capitalists trying to make a profit in the cosmetics world. Fortunately Dr. Sigmund Hummel (Carradine, with his worst-in-class German accent) shows up to assist, which is good as he has watched so much bee closed-circuit TV that he has learned to speak with the bees thanks to the bee robot he has built.

As the killer bees race across the globe (mostly looking like a cloud of smoke, but sometimes even more ridiculous) they pause to attack various locales, and we see them rampaging in parks, cities, and even attacking Gerald Ford in the Rose Bowl Parade! Technically we see Gerald Ford in the parade then the parade gets attacked, so the President was thankfully spared some of the indignity of inadvertently appearing in this film. Saxon and Carradine realize the answer is to use pheromones to kill the bees (in a very un-politically correct subplot, as it turns out,) and the US Air Force cranks up their C-130s and begins spraying the world, which works for a while (the film actually uses stock footage, apparently of Agent Orange spraying.)

Carradine and Tompkins are not only crack entomologists, they are also apparently CPAs, as they audit an Agriculture Department Undersecretary, who was skimming from the bee research budget. The embezzler quickly puts out a contract on the three scientists, but when the thugs enter the lab to kill Carradine, they also shoot out the glass holding the even more virulent and hyperintelligent bees which leads to predictable results. Oddly, when Saxon and Tompkins return to the lab to have a heart-rending goodbye with Uncle Siggy the bees are all gone. Where did they all go? How do these two never get stung even when they are making out amongst the bees? On his death chair Carradine reveals that the bees are now as smart as humans and know everything that's going on, which is to say, more than any of the cast or audience at this point. I did particularly enjoy the scene where the corrupt Agriculture Undersecretary enters his office where all appears normal. That turns out to be incorrect, though, as the massively brainy bees are merely waiting for him in silence behind his curtains, after which they ambush him and fling him out his office window.

Since the newer bees are now resistant to the pheromone trick, and are now all over Washington, DC, the USAF does the logical thing and launches every tactical aircraft they own to bomb DC. Of course what we really see is stock footage of a large variety of USAF fighters from the 1960s and 1970s attacking bombing ranges and lush green patches of Southeast Asia with no city in sight. It was at this point I elected to give the film an extra star: the eight seconds of the F-105 bombing run is of good quality and shot from a nice angle; otherwise this would be an obvious candidate for a single star rating. The bees quickly rebuff the USAF causing planes and helicopters to crash through the appropriation of more stock footage including the very famous F-100 high angle of attack landing accident. Saxon and Tompkins learn bee language and find out the concerns from the insect world, and relay it to the UN in a scene that has to be seen to be believed. In a turn of events that was just ahead of its time, the bees are concerned with damage man is causing to the environment and want to partner as equals with humans in the future to make the world greener. If they don't get what they want they will kill all humans. Saxon presents their ultimatum to the UN as the bees invade the building in a sublime bit of hysterical over-the-top preachiness that would be at home in the mainstream press today.

"The Bees" is a run of the mill example of nature-gone-wild filmmaking that was so popular at the time, but it's plodding, full of stock footage, has some truly terrible acting from some people who really should know better, and despite the therapeutic value of laughter it sometimes provides, is a chore to struggle through.

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Trevor William Douglas

Top Print. Entertaining 'Bee' Movie!

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2016

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This is the best print I have seen of The Bees. OK it is cheesy and over the top, but that is the point. It also carries a message which ironically is relevant today. John Carradine has a major part and hams it up magnificently. His arthritic hands are painfully obvious in many shots, but he carried on like the trooper he was. John Saxon is the epitome of the heroic leading man and has some terrific dialogue and a good fight scene as well.
Angel Tompkins is in fine form and works well with both Johns.
The featurette with Director Alfredo Zacharias is very informative and makes a nice companion piece.
Highly recommended if you are a fan of John Saxon, John Carradine and Angel Tompkins.

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Lola

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2016

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Love the older classic B movies

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Lacresha Key

GOOD

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2016