Il mistero dell'isola dei gabbiani

Titolo originale: The Deadly Bees

1966
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1h 24min

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4,2/10

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Suzanna Leigh in Il mistero dell'isola dei gabbiani (1966)

Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.

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I guai arrivano quando un cantante pop esausto, mandato in vacanza in una fattoria, si rende conto che il proprietario della fattoria alleva api letali.I guai arrivano quando un cantante pop esausto, mandato in vacanza in una fattoria, si rende conto che il proprietario della fattoria alleva api letali.I guai arrivano quando un cantante pop esausto, mandato in vacanza in una fattoria, si rende conto che il proprietario della fattoria alleva api letali.

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

4,2/10

2329

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Deadly Bees, The (1967)

** (out of 4)

Robert Bloch wrote the screenplay to this film, which has a pop singer (Suzanna Leigh) going to get rest at a country home only to arrive as an outbreak of bee attacks start to happen. It appears that these aren't just any bees but instead specially trained by a psychotic beekeeper. Bloch is of course best known for his novel, which turned into Hitchcock's Psycho but he certainly missed the boat here. There's a big mystery wrapped around the film as to who is the beekeeper but it's very obviously from the opening ten minutes. I'm not sure if the screenplay was just bad or if Francis didn't like Block and decided to give away the secret early on. Either way, there's really not too much going for this film as the performances are all rather bland and that includes the lead Leigh. Not for a second did I buy her as a pop singer and the opening music is just torture on the ears. The screenplay introduces several characters and subplots but none of them every come out to anything. This Amicus production does benefit from some rather gruesome death scenes but the special effects don't hold up too well today.

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The special effects for the bee attack sequences were quite simple. Often footage of swarming bees would be superimposed over footage of the actors and fake plastic bees would be glued to the actors. Some shots of swarming "bees" was actually footage of coffee grounds, floating and swirling in water tanks, that was superimposed over landscape footage.

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When Doris is chased through the woods by the bees, it is a grey overcast day, yet the close up shots of the hovering swarm feature a bright blue sky without a cloud in sight

Citazioni
H.W. Manfred: [Referring to a liquid he has] I've made this especially for you, Vicki.

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For its 1998 appearance on the series Mystery Science Theater 3000 several scenes were cut from the film. Among them a scene of Mr. Manfred at the pub, more plot involving David Hawkins, additional scenes about the investigation of Mary Hargrove's death, and more conversations between Vicki and Mr. Manfred.