This is the film you watch when you start to think about moving to Florida. It’ll change your mind quick.
It’s actually a pretty effective horror film. I mean, almost everyone makes the absolute worst decisions, but that is pretty much 70s horror.
Frogs
TODAY - THE POND... TOMORROW - THE WORLD!
Rating
3.0 (1)
Release Date
3/10/1972Runtime
90 minsGenres
Overview
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.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$200,000Revenue
$1,900,000Homepage
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How It Feels
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A 1970s eco-horror film where nature itself becomes an instrument of vengeance against a polluting millionaire, delivering escalating animal attacks with the moral certainty of a nature documentary and the visceral unease of a creature feature.
Mood
UnsettlingAngryDread-soaked
Themes
NatureRevengeMortalityComing apart
Tone
Operatic
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticPractical effects
Structure
Single location
Heads up
Graphic violenceAnimal harm
Ray Milland
Jason Crockett
Sam Elliott
Pickett Smith
Joan Van Ark
Karen Crockett
Adam Roarke
Clint Crockett
Judy Pace
Bella Garrington
Lynn Borden
Jenny Crockett
Mae Mercer
Maybelle
David Gilliam
Michael Martindale
Nicholas Cortland
Kenneth Martindale
George Skaff
Stuart Martindale
Lance Taylor Sr.
Charles
Hollis Irving
Iris Martindale
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