Movie |
New Orleans, Louisiana | Mardi Gras
Disclaimer: All content and media belong to original content streaming platforms/owners like Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon Prime Videos, JioCinema, SonyLIV etc. 91mobiles entertainment does not claim any rights to the content and only aggregate the content along with the service providers links.
Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing | 1977
Norman Gary, an entomologist and production consultant, was the bee wrangler/handler for this film. All of the "Oh my God, the bees are killing him/her!" shots, where the bees swarm over the victim, were done by him. He also played one of the victims. Gary would do the same two things in this film's sequel, Terror Out of the Sky (1978).
Amazingly, only a very few bee-related injuries occurred on the film's set, a testament to Norman Gary's (the film's bee wrangler/handler) expertise.
This is one of several films about Africanized honey bees (a.k.a. "killer bees") that were released during the 1970s' fear of, and fascination with, their predicted future invasion into the U.S. Southwest via South America in the early 1990s (which actually happened in the predicted time period, but not in the same ways the films had said it would, of course). Other films in this subgenre include Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973), Killer Bees (1974), The Bees (1978), The Swarm (1978), and Terror Out of the Sky (1978). The last film on this list is the sequel to this film.
Literally hundreds of thousands of bees were used for this film.
Italian censorship visa # 71988 delivered on 10 June 1978.
"Dr. Jeff DuRand: [over a loudspeaker while escorting a red Volkswagen Beetle covered with killer bees through the French Quarter in New Orleans] Attention, we have an emergency! Y'all are in danger! You have 60 seconds to clear the street! We're bringing through a swarm of killer bees! We have an emergency! You're in danger! You have 60 seconds to clear the street! I repeat: killer bees! Any loud noise is gonna rile 'em! Absolute quiet is necessary! Turn off all radios, all machinery, and get off the street!"
