The Food of the Gods (1976)

Directed by

Bert Ira Gordon

Genre

horror film, science fiction film, monster film

Country

United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 127 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A strange substance causes animals on a remote island to grow to giant size. A group of people must fight for survival against oversized wasps and giant rats.

low-budgetcampydatedsillyunintentionally funnycheesy

What happens

H.G. Wells' The Food of the Gods, also billed as just The Food of the Gods, is a 1976 American-Canadian science fiction thriller film released by American International Pictures and was written, produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon. Starring Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher, and Ida Lupino, the film was loosely based on a portion of the 1904 H. G. Wells novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth. The film reduced Wells' tale to a "nature revenge" plot, common in science fiction films of the time. Michael Medved's book The Golden Turkey Awards named the film Worst Rodent Movie of All Time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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