When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad. Well I was indeed sad at the very beginning of this when a small Louisiana bayou town sheriff Ben Johnson finds his beloved dog dead and believing that he was poisoned demands an autopsy. A little black girl heading to church is chased by bees, a dead man with welts, pulled out of the water. Then the dog is found to have a stomach filled with bees. Before you can proclaim "Danger, Will Robinson!", the voice of Olivia de Havilland will come into your mond warning us that a swarm of killer bees is comin' this way. No, it isn't the sometimes over the top Irwin Allen film "The Swarm", but a TV movie that is not going to bless the bees and the children, especially those celebrating Mardi Gras in nearby New Orleans.
This is two years before that all star horror classic yet two years after the pretty lame Gloria Swanson TV movie "Killer Bees" which was far too direct to contain any humor. Gretchen Corbett plays the scientist brought in, with Michael Parks as an assistant scientist working at the coroner's office. Yes, American bees are said to be man's best friend, but the African bees can bring down an elephant, and killed dozens in Brazil when brought there, evidenced by some alleged stock footage. So forget your flies and ants and spiders. To be an African bee, that is indeed the question. Pretty good TV movie shocker that proclaims that they don't want to just sting, they want to kill. Maybe not the greatest of cheap scifi, but quite above average for a TV movie.
This is two years before that all star horror classic yet two years after the pretty lame Gloria Swanson TV movie "Killer Bees" which was far too direct to contain any humor. Gretchen Corbett plays the scientist brought in, with Michael Parks as an assistant scientist working at the coroner's office. Yes, American bees are said to be man's best friend, but the African bees can bring down an elephant, and killed dozens in Brazil when brought there, evidenced by some alleged stock footage. So forget your flies and ants and spiders. To be an African bee, that is indeed the question. Pretty good TV movie shocker that proclaims that they don't want to just sting, they want to kill. Maybe not the greatest of cheap scifi, but quite above average for a TV movie.