A rare food taken by an old woman(Ida Lupino) provokes the excessive increasing on animals and bugs. Thee killer beasts , gigantic flies, huge chicken, wasps, worms and enormous rats strike tourists on a secluded island. A football team players(Marjoe Gotner, John Cypher)enjoying vacations ought to fight against the giant monsters that are attacking people(Pamela Franklin,Ralph Meeker and Belinda Balaski as an unperiled pregnant woman).<\/p>\n
This is an entertaining movie from expert Bert I. Gordon and freely based on H.G. Welles novel .Suffers from average special effects and regular performances.The flies reproduction are quite badly made but the rats are better staged by means of true bugs increased by optics effects. Over-sized reproduction of massive worms, bulky chicken were utilized to incarnate the enormous creature effects and also were used various diverse mechanized rats.The miniature design and special props are made by Von Buelow, titles and optical effects by Universal title; plus the visual effects coordinator by J. Richardson and of course Bert I Gordon who usually makes his own FX , he’s a true craftsman. The movie gives special thanks to football team of Frazer University and the children of Sir John Franklin Community of Vancouver ,British Columbia, where it was filmed.<\/p>\n
The film is produced in little budget by Samuel Z Arkoff who created along with James H Nicholson the American International Pictures in which during the 60s and 70s produced several monster movies and the prestigious Roger Corman-Edgar Allan Poe series.The motion picture is professionally directed by Bert I Gordon. Bert is a B series producer\/director, known as Mr B.I.G. .He’s a monster movies expert in which animals and men suffer voluminous shapes change caused by food or radioactivity. As occurs in \u00a8The cyclops\u00a8 when the protagonist becomes a giant human monster,as well as a soldier converts in \u00a8War of the colossal beast\u00a8, the immense insects of \u00a8Begining of the end\u00a8, a monstrous spider in \u00a8The spider\u00a8, giant ants in \u00a8Empire of the ants\u00a8. Other his works in fantasy-terror are : \u00a8Picture mommy dead\u00a8 and \u00a8 Necromancy\u00a8, among them. It’s followed by a lesser sequel titled \u00a8Food of gods, part 2(1989) \u00a8 directed by Damian Lee where the huge rats strike again and maim beautiful women.<\/p>\n
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