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Titolo originale: The Food of the Gods
  • 1976
  • PG
  • 1h 28min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
4,6/10
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Un gruppo di amici si reca in una remota isola canadese per cacciare, solo per essere attaccato da giganteschi animali assassini che hanno popolato il luogo.Un gruppo di amici si reca in una remota isola canadese per cacciare, solo per essere attaccato da giganteschi animali assassini che hanno popolato il luogo.Un gruppo di amici si reca in una remota isola canadese per cacciare, solo per essere attaccato da giganteschi animali assassini che hanno popolato il luogo.

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    • Bert I. Gordon
  • Sceneggiatura
    • H.G. Wells
    • Bert I. Gordon
  • Star
    • Marjoe Gortner
    • Pamela Franklin
    • Ralph Meeker
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    4,6/10
    5182
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    • Regia
      • Bert I. Gordon
    • Sceneggiatura
      • H.G. Wells
      • Bert I. Gordon
    • Star
      • Marjoe Gortner
      • Pamela Franklin
      • Ralph Meeker
    • 88Recensioni degli utenti
    • 64Recensioni della critica
    • 20Metascore
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    Marjoe Gortner
    Marjoe Gortner
    • Morgan
    Pamela Franklin
    Pamela Franklin
    • Lorna
    Ralph Meeker
    Ralph Meeker
    • Bensington
    Jon Cypher
    Jon Cypher
    • Brian
    Ida Lupino
    Ida Lupino
    • Mrs. Skinner
    John McLiam
    John McLiam
    • Mr. Skinner
    Belinda Balaski
    Belinda Balaski
    • Rita
    Tom Stovall
    Tom Stovall
    • Thomas
    Chuck Courtney
    Chuck Courtney
    • Davis
    Reg Tunnicliffe
    • Ferry Attendant
    Kevin Schumm
    • Child in Classroom
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    • Regia
      • Bert I. Gordon
    • Sceneggiatura
      • H.G. Wells
      • Bert I. Gordon
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    6whlwtcher

    Oldie but Goodie

    Disappointed to see some recent reviews that give this score a low rating. This movie is from the 70s - of course it's cheesy and the special effects are low budget when you compare it to movies made today. Watched this film when I was a kid and loved it - very scary for its time. And the end scene - what if! Definitely haunted me.
    7Nightman85

    Delightful B movie fun

    Another of Bert I. Gordon's adaptations of the works of H. G. Wells, the others being the Village of the Giants (1965) and Empire of the Ants (1977), results in yet another amusing tale of giant critters reeking havoc!

    Football star vacations on an island, where a mysterious substance on a farm is causing the local animals to grow to giant, killer sizes! Whats more fun than giant poultry?

    Entertaining, some what cheesy, B sci-fi thriller is great fun for fans of the drive-in era. It's a wild and bizarre tale, as we have giant rats, chickens, and insects threatening human life! Although the film does show its budget, with a wide display of hokey B movie FX, it's all pretty fun schlock. The cast does a decent job, the best being handsome hero Marjoe Gortner.

    The film never gets quite as silly as Gordon's later Empire of the Ants, but it does have its share of fun for fans of the B movie genre.

    ** 1/2 out of ****
    5Bogmeister

    Rats of the Gods

    A great title (borrowed from the greatest science-fiction writer of all time) and downhill from there, but this fun flic with a bad rep, for good reason in a couple of spots, taken in its entirety offers more entertainment value, pound for pound, than most of the other 'eco-terror' flics of the '70s; that's not saying much, but there were plenty of 'em: Bug(75); Night of the Lepus(72); Squirm(76); Kingdom of the Spiders(77); Prophecy(79); Empire of the Ants(77); Frogs(72); Day of the Animals(76); Ben(72); and even Phase IV(74), which was more intelligent but a bore. The only one on par with this is Piranha(78), whose director, Dante, moved to the A-list, and the original Willard(71), which had the added psycho angle. Beyond this, "Food.." contains a wicked depiction of American 'can do' gumption, embodied by Marjoe (an odd choice for leading man). He kills a rooster which was just minding its own business and defending its turf, and never apologizes to the owner (Ida Lupino). Later, he causes the deaths of his buddy (Cypher) and the obvious villain (Meeker-slumming,but the 'go to' guy those days for bad guy roles) by refusing to listen to their logical arguments for getting out of the mess they're in. No, it's his way only, 'cause he's the toughest around these here parts, and if a few people get eaten due to his manly choices, well, that's the American way. In a very strange way, it called to mind the relentless expansion & colonization represented by the American spirit; OK, that's a stretch, but, in another genre, his role would be played by someone like John Wayne, who needs to make the tough decisions. However, if you look more closely at Marjoe's character, he seems to have some crazy death wish. At one point, when they already know the island is infested with giant killers, he decides to go look around in his jeep, which offers no protection at all; his friend, echoing the thoughts of the audience, asks what the hell for? Marjoe doesn't really have an answer; he even says "I don't know." Wild. I first saw this as a teen when it came out, in a downtown theater in San Francisco and sure, most of the FX, especially the dam breaking and water pouring out, caused me to groan in another sort of horror, but seeing people getting eaten alive by giant rats was nothing to laugh off back then. This looked pretty grisly. I recently acquired a decent DVD version and the photography was quite good. Oh, and a bit of a twist ending, to boot! The much later sequel, having little to do with this picture, really was a waste of time.
    5gavin6942

    Pretty Stupid, But Fun If That Is What You Want

    A group of people, somehow associated with a football team, go to an island for a getaway. Well, they picked the wrong time for vacation because someone on the island has developed a new kind of food that causes the animals to grow to gigantic sizes. Great if you're raising cattle, not so great when the rats find it.

    Inspired by H. G. Wells, directed by B-movie legend Bert Gordon, and starring a young pre-Dante Belinda Balaski, this film is pretty much exactly what you might expect it is. There have been plenty of large animal horror or sci-fi films, both before and after this one. Is this one of the better ones? Who is to say?

    The film is good for what it is: people fighting large rats. Sure, it is silly and kind of cheesy, but is that not what you expect from sci-fi films of the time period, especially the giant animal variety? I cannot say this movie had anything special about it, but it sure was not terrible, either.

    For what it is worth, Gordon calls this film the one he had the most fun making, due to the cast and crew being on a Canadian island far from the studio. He also had the pleasure of writing the script on the fly when an unexpected snowstorm prevented the original plan!

    Paul Corupe says this film has "the most fearsome creatures of any Gordon film", but that seems highly contentious.
    5ma-cortes

    Gigantic creatures starving human flesh strike unfortunate people

    A rare food taken by an old woman (penultimate film for Ida Lupino) provokes the excessive increasing on animals and bugs . Then killer beasts , gigantic flies , huge chicken , wasps , worms and enormous rats strike tourists on a secluded island . Football team players (Marjoe Gotner , John Cypher) enjoying vacations have to fight the giant monsters that are attacking people (Ralph Meeker , Belinda Balaski as an unperiled pregnant woman and Pamela Franklin's last film although she would continue to work on TV in guest).

    This is an entertaining movie from expert Bert I. Gordon and freely based on H.G. Welles novel , being AIP's most successful film of the year . Although it 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 were also used various diverse mechanized rats . As six different mechanized rat heads and four human-motivated rat costumes were also employed . The miniature design and special props were made by Von Buelow , titles and optical effects by Universal title ; plus , the visual effects by coordinator J. Richardson and , of course , Bert I. Gordon who usually makes his own FX , he's a real 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.

    The film was 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 was 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 ¨The cyclops¨ when the protagonist becomes a giant human monster,as well as a soldier converts in ¨War of the colossal beast¨, the immense insects of ¨Begining of the end¨, a monstrous spider in ¨The spider¨, giant ants in ¨Empire of the ants¨. Other his works in fantasy-terror are : ¨Picture mommy dead¨ and ¨ Necromancy¨, among them. It's followed by a lesser sequel titled ¨Food of gods , part 2 (1989)¨ directed by Damian Lee where the huge rats strike again and maim beautiful women.

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      Oversized reproductions of worms, chickens, wasps and rats were used to create the gigantic creature effect. Six different mechanized rat heads and four human-motivated rat costumes were also employed.
    • Blooper
      When Morgan first meets Mrs. Skinner's rooster, the legs (from the knees down) are visible of the crew member wielding the giant chicken head.
    • Citazioni

      Jack Bensington: [pointing at bubbling fluid from ground] That's what your husband brought us out here for?

      Mrs. Skinner: Just like Mr. Skinner found 'er. Just like that one day. At first he thought it was oil and it was going to make us rich.

      Jack Bensington: Come on, Lorna.

      Lorna Scott: No, wait a minute, Jack, wait a minute. Look at this. I've never seen anything like it. Mrs. Skinner, how did your husband happen to feed it to the chickens?

      Mrs. Skinner: Well, when we found out it weren't no oil, there was nothing to do about it, so we fed it to the chicks.

      Lorna Scott: Right out of the ground like that?

      Mrs. Skinner: No, miss. Nothing'll eat it unless we mix it with chicken feed.

      Lorna Scott: And did all the chickens grow?

      Mrs. Skinner: Only the baby chicks. Nothing seemed to affect the grown ones. Nothing at all.

      Lorna Scott: Nothing happens to the full-grown chickens, is that right?

      Mrs. Skinner: Well, they didn't grow none, if that's what you mean. But I didn't say nothing happened to 'em.

      Lorna Scott: Well, what did happen?

      Mrs. Skinner: They got et... by the real big ones.

      Jack Bensington: Come on, Lorna.

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      End credits play over a stilled image of a child sitting in a school class drinking milk, not knowing it has the growth substance.
    • Connessioni
      Edited into Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 18 giugno 1976 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paesi di origine
      • Stati Uniti
      • Canada
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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      • La plaga asesina
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Cowan's Point, Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada
    • Azienda produttrice
      • American International Pictures (AIP)
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