The Swarm

Irwin Allen's doomsday epic pits an all-star cast against a North American invasion of killer bees.
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DVD-R Details

  • ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 35 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: December 2, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1978
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten11%

TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 19

Spilled18%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 4,126
Mr. Allen might just as well have devoted his talents to man-eating goldfish, poodles on the rampage or carniverous canaries.
New York Times
May 9, 2005
Rating: 2/10 -- Quite unbelievably terrible, just campy enough to be fun-bad instead of merely bad-bad. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Dec 4, 2016
Rating: 1.5/4 -- As an adult, I recognize that The Swarm is, well, not good, but I can now enjoy it as a so-bad-it's-brilliant endeavor. Full Review
Film Frenzy
Apr 22, 2019
Rating: 5/10 -- The script's most potentially inspired element, that survivors may have a sort of psychic link with the bees, remains unfortunately unexploited. Full Review
PopMatters
Nov 9, 2018
Hugely entertaining in all the ways it isn't meant to be. Full Review
Film4
May 25, 2015
Rating: 3/5 -- Hammy action yarn with an entertaining performance from Michael Caine. Full Review
Empire Magazine
May 25, 2015
Killer bees periodically interrupt the arch writing, stilted direction and ludicrous acting in Irwin Allen's disappointing and tired non-thriller. Full Review
Variety
Mar 26, 2009

Description by OLDIES.com:

While investigating the bee-sting deaths of Air Force personnel at a missile base near Houston, Texas, an entomologist realizes that the dreaded African killer bees -- long expected by scientists -- have arrived in the United States. The hallucination-inducing bees derail a commuter train and destroy a nuclear power plant, killing hundreds of people as scientists race against the clock to develop an antitoxin to stop the devastation of the swarm. Based on the novel by Arthur Herzog.

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Warner Archive Collection

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  • Sales Rank: 12,387
  • UPC: 888574092191
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