Terror out of the Sky * (1978, Efrem Zimbalist Jnr, Tovah Feldshuh, Dan Haggerty) – Classic Movie Review 3103

‘Oh my God. His mouth. It’s full of BEES!’ – Pathologist. 

Director Lee H Katzin brings the bees back in this less nifty and even dafter 1978 sequel to 1976’s The Savage Bees, with a different cast.

The battle is on to save the world from a new breed of killer bees that has been bred at a research lab for scientific study and Efrem Zimbalist Jnr, Tovah Feldshuh, Dan Haggerty, Bruce French, Lonny Chapman, Richard Herd, Steve Franken, Philip Baker Hall and Ike Eisenmann are just the guys to do it. This time a marching band and a school bus get in the way of the rampaging insects.

Zimbalist Jnr and Feldshuh have to locate and destroy three queen bees that have been sent out to bee-keepers before it was known they were of the deadly variety. They don’t reach the third bee in time and the swarm attacks a 4th of July celebration, trapping Feldshuh and a troop of boy scouts in a bus.

Alas, though it tries hard, it ends up more of a Z-movie than a B-movie. One of three bee movies in 1978, along with The Swarm and The Bees.

Efrem Zimbalist Jnr died on May 2 2014, age 95.

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