Les Crapauds

Original title: Frogs

1972
PG
1h 31m

IMDb RATING

4.4/10

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Dystopian Sci-Fi Horror Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller

A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.

Director
- George McCowan
Writers
- Robert Hutchison
- Robert Blees
Stars

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IMDb RATING

4.4/10

8.1K

YOUR RATING

Director
- George McCowan
Writers
- Robert Hutchison
- Robert Blees
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

Videos1

Trailer 2:10

Frogs

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Trivia
Many of the 500 Florida frogs and 100 South American cane toads purchased for use in the film escaped during production.

Goofs
When Pickett Smith is wandering around the island, he sees Grover lying face down in a marsh, where he was killed by being bitten by a venomous snake. Grover, however, is clearly still breathing.

Quotes
Clint Crockett: Well it seems like everyone in our family is hung-up on frogs.

Crazy credits
After the closing credits fade out, an animated frog hops onscreen with a human hand hanging out of its mouth, after which it turns to face the audience and slurps the hand into its mouth, then it turns away from the audience and hops off-screen.

Alternate versions
In the film's pre-release prints, Iris (Holly Irving) dies by being forced into a quicksand pool by a giant butterfly and then drowning in it rather than dying by snakebite. The scene, however, was thought to be too silly-looking and, thus, it was cut. Clips of the cut scene can still be glimpsed in the film's theatrical trailer, however.

Connections
Edited from Bloody Mama (1970)

User reviews180

Featured review

5/10

Nature against Mankind – The Payback

The free-lance photographer Pickett Smith (Sam Elliott) is taking pictures of the pollution in a swamp in Florida for a magazine of ecology in his canoe. Out of the blue, he is hit by a motor boat piloted by Clint Crockett (Adam Roarke) and his sister Karen Crockett (Joan Van Ark) and capsizes.

Clint and Karen invite Pickett for the party in the private island of their grumpy grandfather Jason Crockett (Ray Milland), an old fashioned disabled patriarch that enjoys celebrating his birthday on the 4th July with his family.

Pickett realizes that the island is infested of frogs and reptiles and Jason has ordered his caretaker to poison his real estate to get rid of the amphibians and creepy crawlies. But soon Picket realizes that they are living the payback of nature against mankind.

The trash "Frogs" is probably one of the first movies to defend the ecology and absolutely ahead of the time. This is the first feature of Sam Elliot, who acts with the veteran Ray Milland. The story is funny and never scares but entertains. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "A Invasão das Rãs" ("The Frogs'Invasion")