#Movie the frogs movie#

He manages to feel like the outsider while also feeling like part of the group. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100 based on reviews from 4 critics, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.Ī reviewer from found it odd for a horror film to be titled Frogs when all the killings in the film are done by animals other than frogs and discussed the acting: 'Sam Elliott is good as always. The deleted scene can still be glimpsed in the trailer.įrogs received a score of 29% on Rotten Tomatoes. In pre-release prints, Iris (Holly Irving) died by being pulled into quicksand by a giant butterfly, rather than by snakebite. The film was shot in Walton County, Florida, on the Emerald Coast in and around Wesley House, an old Southern mansion located in Eden Gardens State Park in the town of Point Washington, situated on Tucker Bayou off Choctawhatchee Bay. The frog swallows the hand before hopping away. As the atmosphere intensifies, and he collapses and dies as he is swarmed by the frogs.Īn animated frog appears in the ending credits with a human hand in its mouth. The phone rings, but when he answers it, the line is still dead. That night, now alone in his mansion (save for his dog, Colonel), Jason witnesses hundreds of frogs breaking into the house and staring at him. As they head towards Jefferson City, the son shows them a huge frog that he took from summer camp. They reach the road and hitch a ride with a woman and her son. They make it to shore where they discover Charles, Maybelle, and Bella's bloodied belongings. They cross the lake in Smith's canoe, encountering an alligator and water snakes, which Smith dispatches with a boat paddle and a shotgun. Karen and Smith decide to leave with Clint and Jenny's children Jason refuses to join them. His wife Jenny tries to rescue him, but gets stuck in the river bank and is attacked and killed by an alligator snapping turtle.

Clint discovers his boat is adrift and swims to reach it, but a cottonmouth bites him in the water, poisoning and killing him. As Clint investigates the abandoned dock, a flock of golden eagles appear and attack Charles, Maybelle, and Bella, forcing them to flee. Clint takes them across the lake in his speedboat. On Smith's advice, family butler Charles and maid Maybelle decide to leave, along with Kenneth's fiancée, Bella Garrington. Her husband, Stuart, comes looking for her, falls into a mud and is eaten by two alligators. Tired and badly injured, she falls down near a sleeping rattlesnake, which bites and kills her. While chasing a butterfly, Iris is frightened by snakes and baby alligators, and in a panic, falls into a puddle, where leeches latch on her. Seeing the danger posed by the animals, Smith suggests that everyone leave the island, but Jason is adamant that nothing will ruin his birthday. As he gathers the flowers, dozens of tokay geckos and tegus enter and knock over poison, whose toxic gas asphyxiates Michael. Tarantulas descend from branches and bites him to death.īack at Jason's house, Jason's daughter and Michael's mother Iris sends her other son, Ken, into a greenhouse to collect white daisies for a centerpiece.

Distracted by an impromptu hunting session, he accidentally shoots himself in the calf and is rendered immobile by strange white moss hanging down from the trees. Jason orders him not to mention it to anyone else.Įarly next morning, Jason's grandson Michael Martindale sets out to check on a downed power line. Smith later discovers Grover's corpse covered in snake bites in a nearby swamp not far from Jason's house. Then, Jason sends a man named Grover to get rid of the overpopulating frogs.

Smith tries to call out with his phone, but it is now dead. The family's grouchy, wheelchair-using patriarch Jason intends spending the next day enjoying both the Fourth of July and his birthday celebrations uninterrupted. After Clint Crockett accidentally tips over his canoe, he and his sister, Karen escort Smith to a mansion where he meets the entire family. Through the swamp are numerous indicators of pollution, which Smith believes are connected to pesticide use on the island plantation. Wildlife photographer Pickett Smith is taking photographs of the local flora and fauna as he canoes through a swamp surrounding the island mansion estate of the wealthy and influential Crockett family. The film was theatrically released on March 10, 1972.

#Movie the frogs movie#

The movie suggests nature may be justified in exacting revenge on this family because of its patriarch's abuse of the local ecology. Southern family who are victimized by several different animal species, including snakes, birds, lizards, and butterflies. The film falls into the 'eco-horror' category, telling the story of a wildlife photographer who meets an upper-class U.S. Frogs is a 1972 American horror film directed by George McCowan.