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Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare (1995) That threat from South American killer bees, last heard from in the
1970s via The Swarm
and The Savage Bees, is still lurking dangerously
if one is to believe the script of this retro-look 1995 TV disaster/horror
movie. The buzzing menace arrives in Southern California and causes
modest havok by picking off a couple of marked-for-death joyriding teens
(the boy has an open drinks can in the car, the girl exposes her breasts
to a trucker), ruining a wedding (the bride inventively uses her veil
as a bee-net while rescuing her estranged stepson) and finally staging
a siege a la The Birds of hero
Robert Hays's isolated farmhouse. The plot requires contrivances like
a stupid kid who thinks blasting hives with a shotgun will solve the
problem to keep going while eccentric entomologist guest star Dennis
Christopher provides all the apiary explanations, and director Rockne
S. O'Bannon relies on the usual mix of ultra close-ups of real bees
with long-shots of superimposed swirling tea-leaves for the attack scenes.
However, this is just the sort of thing that made the TV movie an art
form in the 1970s: hackneyed characters, infallible suspense plotting,
crises before the commercial breaks and an open ending in case a sequel
is required. First Published on: the BBC Films website Visit Kim's Official Website at www.johnnyalucard.com
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