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Doomwatch is a 1972 British SF film that was called Island Of The Ghouls in the US. It's based on the British TV series Doomwatch that was created by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler. Those two had worked on some Doctor Who scripts before this. Clive Exton wrote the script for the movie and Peter Sasdy was the director. Ian Bannen is Dr. Del Shaw and he's from the Doomwatch organization. He goes to a remote British island and finds a village filled with an out of the ordinary amount of random aggression. Some in the village have thick lips and sloping brows and that makes the Doctor suspicious. He does some checking and finds a RAF dumpsite that some other bit of scum has been dumping chemicals in. It leads to contaminated fish and fucked up villagers. Of course they don't want to have anything to do with the Doctor and he's nearly killed. Not a good day for that guy, huh. It all sorts itself out best as possible. It was an interesting production. I was interested in the series but it's not cheap on Amazon UK, probably in the $45-50 to bring it here to me. Only 24 of the 39 episodes exist and I read that some of them aren't looking too good. Salvaged from other sources and cleaned up as much as possible. If it was a lot cheaper, maybe in awhile when the price drops, the set only came out last year.

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Altered is a 2006 alien encounter movie, there's not really an invasion going on, the aliens are kidnapping and experimenting on humans. It's a 2006 film with a script by Jamie Nash and direction from Eduardo Sánchez. He was one of the co-director's of The Blair Witch Project. I was not a fan of TBWP and I sold the DVD right after I watched it. This is Eduardo's first solo film and he's come out with a much better project than you know what. Some guys are out hunting in the woods, they capture an alien and bring it to their old pal Wyatt. They all had been kidnapped by aliens 15 years ago, some were released after a day, Wyatt and Timmy were kept for a while longer. Timmy died with the aliens and Wyatt woke up in the woods miles form home days after he was abducted. The three that were released first are the ones with the alien. Their rage at the beast is fierce and Wyatt can hardly keep them from killing it. He says that the rest will wipe out the human's if they kill the alien. They spend the rest of the movie battling the alien and dying. It's a fairly decent and it certainly delivered more of a scare than TBWP. The alien's bite is deadly to humans, their body decays and the skin ulcers and sloughs off. Nice, huh. Now you know how those Martians felt in HG Well's War Of The Worlds. The gore effects are good and the script much better than TBWP. I got it from Netflix and I'd pick up a copy if it was a less than a couple of bucks. It was good enough that I might want to watch it again someday but it's doubtful that I'll ever get to it again, so why store it.

Battle Beneath The Earth is the first movie on a two movie double feature from Warner Home Video. It's a 1967 British film made at MGM British Studios, Boreham Wood. It's got a script by Charles F Vetter, he was also the co-producer, and the director is Montgomery Tully. It was Tunny's last movie, the one before this was The Terrornauts. It's one of the only movies of his that I've also seen. The rest of his work I didn't recognize. Kerwin Matthews is a Commander in the US Navy. His old friend is arrested and put into a mental hospital. Kerwin goes to visit him and he hears a fantastic story about something tunneling under the ocean from China. He doesn't believe it until some odd things start happening on the west coast. It's soon discovered that the Chinese have developed some super drilling machines and they are spearheading an invasion of the US. The rest of the movie is the underground battle between the Navy and the Chinese. I'd seen it back in 2011 but most of the story had slipped my mind. It was fun enough to watch but it's no great shakes of a movie. It's only got a score of 4.5 on the IMDb and that's about how good it is. I gave it a 5 because it's a bit better than a 4.

The Ultimate Warrior is the other movie on the disc, it's from 1975 and Robert Clouse is the writer and director. Robert some might remember is the director of Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon and Jackie Chan's The Big Brawl. He also finished Bruce's Game Of Death after the action star died before the shooting was done. Robert directed many other action and martial arts films but most of them are much less interesting than Bruce and Jackie's films. The Ultimate Warrior is set in the 2012 post apocalypse future of New York City. Max von Sydow is the Baron, he's got a walled in compound with no rats. He hires You Brenner to fight for him. He's got a plan,he wants Yul to take his pregnant daughter out of the city with some special seeds. He knows of an island they can settle on away from all the crappy citizens in the city. They make a break for it and get chased through the old subway. Many die before the survivors make it out of the city. Joanna Miles plays Max's pregnant daughter and William Smith plays the rival leader that wants Max's compound with it's own well. He's that perfect combination of tough, stupid and vicious. He needs to be killed for everyone's safety. It's an OK movie, there's some bit of action, some personal drama and plenty of sad shit and stupid evil people. Odd that no one seems to have any guns in that future. Max even says they've run out of gasoline. Seems unlikely but it's a good way to avoid having to deal with cars and weapons. Save a lot of your budget, I guess. Still it was fun enough to watch.

Demon Seed 1977

I can't remember ever seeing Demon Seed before. It came out in 1977 and I could have missed it easily. The library had a copy sitting on the shelf and I took it home. It's from the Warner Brothers Archive and it's on a DVDr. It's based on a Dean R Koontz novel, the screenplay is by Roger Hirson and Robert Jaffe with Donald Cammell directing. Julie Christie is a married to Fritz Weaver, he's a scientist that develops a super AI program called Proteus that does amazing things. He's got a house that is connected to Proteus and he's leaving Julie. She decides to stay in the house and  is surprised when Proteus takes over the place and traps her in the house to breed a child with his mind inside. I didn't care for it much for it. It just seems so preposterous. One more I don't need to buy or bother with again.

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Creature With The Atom Brain is a 1955 SF movie that I somehow hadn't seen before. It's written by Curt Siodmak and directed by Edward L Chan. The movie opens as a big hulking guy robs a gambling joint and kills a guy. He jumps through a window and runs off with several bullet holes in him. The cops don't believe the eye witness reports and it's equally puzzling when the fingerprints of the killer come back with deceased stamped on the file.

Richard Denning is a Police Scientist who discovers that the blood left by the dead, and deadly, robber is radioactive. He's pretty clever and he figures out what's going on as the clues come in. I like Richard and he does a good job here.

The man behind the dead robber is scientist Wilhelm Steigg and his gangster pal Frank Buchanan. Steigg has created a way to animate dead men and control them. When they send the creatures out for some murder they can see what the dead robber sees on their TV set. Frank can control the creature with voice commands over radio. They create several creatures and send them out to do their evil bidding. Frank has vengeance in mind, some of his criminal pals need killing for setting up.

That's one of the creatures. You can hardly notice the scars where the creatures head was opened.

That's the device Steigg uses to control his creatures. It's a ring with lots of wires coming out of it. He kills Richard's Captain, puts that device in the Captain's head, then sends him out to gather info. The Captain goes to Richard's house but he's not home. The Captain fools the wife and daughter but he does tear up the daughter's doll. Then the Captain goes and kills some criminals.

Richard meets up with the Captain and finds out he's a creature. Steigg commands that the Captain crash the car, Richard jumps out before it crashes. The Captain survives and heads back to Steigg. You can guess how that goes.

All in all it was fairly entertaining in a low-key way. I liked the story but I'm partial to action scientists and this delivers a good one. There's a bit of fighting, a decent gunfight, some science yakkin' and plenty of creatures. I picked up that 60th Anniversary DVD for under 2 bucks and was happy to have it even though it's a Mill Creek Entertainment product. They seem to have licensed a lot of stuff from the larger studios, this is from Columbia originally. The picture looks pretty darn good for MCE, the movie takes up over 6 GB on the disc and the bit rate is often 8 or 9. Sadly, there aren't any extras.

Where Have All The People Gone was another movie I haven't seen. At least, I don't think so anyway. It's a 1974 TV movie that was on the NBC Movie Of The Week. I know I watched that TV movies and I would have watched an SF movie any day. The script is by Lewis John Carlino and Sander Stern, the director is John Llewellyn Moxey. Lewis is best known for writing The Sailor Who Fell From Grave With The Sea, The Great Santini and The Mechanic. That's the 1972 Charles Bronson movie and it's a good one. Sandor wrote and directed a lot of TV in the 70s and 80s. I don't think I saw a lot of it. John directed The City Of The Dead and Circus Of Fear. He directed a lot of British and American TV shows. You might have heard of The Saint, The Baron, Hawaii 5-O, Mission Impossible and Mannix. He also directed The Night Stalker with Darren McGavin.

Peter Graves is on vacation in the country with his two teen children and a pal. Peter and the teens are in a cave when something happens. The pal was outside and he saw a big flash of light. Later that day he starts to gets sick, dies, then turns to white power. Back in the city they find that everyone is gone. Kathleen Quinlan and George O'Hanlon Jr plays the teens. Verna Bloom plays a woman who's alive but in shock. The family travels about and pick up a 10 year old boy on the way. They meet a few scared people, some guy steals their car, dogs have gone crazy and attack. Sadly, when they finally get home they only find a note from Peter's wife. The family heads into the mountains to see if they can survive there. It's all about average. The IMDb gives it a 6.4 but I wouldn't give it more than a 5.

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Space Thing is David F Friedman's 1968 science fiction sexploitation flick. David was an exploitation film maker who got his start in the 1940s. He'd meet exploitation showman Kroger Babb while in the Army.  After his service he started in marketing and moved into independent distributing because he thought there was more money to be made. He started his own production company in the 1950s. He made nudie cuties with scenes shot in nudist camps and then he started to make genre pictures with plenty of nudity and violence. He worked with Herschell Gordon Lewis for a while. The movie is written by Cosmo Politan and directed by Byron Mabe. The writer has no other credits and an obvious fake name. Byron on the other hand has a roster of credits as an actor, producer, and director (under the name B Ron Elliot). He acted until 1989, his last role was in an episode of Superboy. He died in 2001 at the age of 69. David died in 2011 at the age of 87.

Space Thing starts with a guy and his wife on Earth. He's reading an SF magazine and she's all horny. She practically has to rape him to get some. That's the sad stereotype of the SF nerd of the time. After their undercover tussle the guy picks up his SF magazine again. He drifts off into the world of space ships and aliens.

On board the space ship our guy is an alien going undercover. He tries to fit in the ship full of Terrans. He gets introduced to sex. That's what takes up most of the time in the movie. People rolling about with hardly anything on. Sadly, it's kind of unexciting for the most part. The ship lands on a planet and there's out door sex for a change.

It's not a good film but one more interesting for what it is than what's on the screen. The exploitation, and sexploitation, film industry is fascinating in itself, it's often better not to see some of the films because of the sad quality. This movie is about average. It's certainly not better than the 5 I gave it at the IMDb but it is slightly better than a 4. Don't watch if you don't care for the nudity.

The Humanoid is a 1979 low budget Italian film.It's pretty much a Star Wars IV - A New Hope ripoff. It's hardly in that league even with a $7,000,000 budget. Two years earlier George Lucas has a budget of $11,000,000 and he's has 3 or 4 times the quality and production value on the screen. Not to mention a much better script and actors. The Humanoid was directed by Aldo Lado who also co-wrote the script with Adriano Bolzoni. Aldo called himself George B Lewis in the credits. Some say that sounds like George Lucas. The music is by Ennio Morricone.

The Humanoid stars Barbara Bach, Arthur Kennedy and Richard Kiel. In another time and place Lord Graal, the evil brother of the Great Brother, ruler of Metropolis (originally Earth), has escaped from prison and he seeks vengeance. LG won't settle for anything other than his brother's death. Richard is a space ship pilot who gets experimented on by the villain. He's turned into a violent unkillable killing machine by having a chip put into his head.

A good guy removes Richard's control chip and enlists him to fight the man who made him a monster. The movie is filled with chases and space battles but it's not that good in the end. Barbara is Lady Agatha, Noxon's tyrannical queen. She's allowed Lord Graal to operate there because she has a desire to marry him and rule the galaxy by his side. She keeps herself young and beautiful by killing young women for something in their bodies. With this kind of lifestyle, in this kind of movie, you can easily imagine it won't end well for either of the villains.

Not really worth a look in the long run, it would be better to watch Star Wars IV - A New Hope again. Like Space Thing this movie turns out to be more interesting for being a STIV-ANH ripoff than an actual movie.

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The World Beyond seems to be a TV movie of sorts. It's from 1978 and only 48 minutes. I found a copy on YouTube but very little info on the production on the internet. There is mention of a 1977 program, called The World Of Darkness, with the same character played by Granville Van Dusen. He plays a sport journalist who died for several minutes. Now he has some sort of supernatural power. He gets a invite to go to an island to visit a man named Favor. JoBeth Williams is Favor's sister. They arrive at the island to find the brother dead and another man who dies just after he stumbles into their mist. He passes on a bit of info about what killed the brother and then he dies. The boat driver's dog is killed and soon that old guy is toast too. The beast out there killing is a golem, created by Favor, and they have to find a way to destroy it. I am wondering if they might have been pilot's for a TV show or something. It's not really SF, more horror with a touch of the supernatural. It's not as good as the IMDb's score might indicate, for some reason 30 people, out of the 103 votes cast, voted the thing a 10. That's crazy talk. It's not more than just average. Especially after 20-30 minutes of the golem howling in the night. That gets tired really fast. Sadly the copy on YouTube is pretty poor looking. The other title mentioned isn't on YouTube at all. I'm OK with that.

I thought I had seen Frankenstein's Daughter before but it's not on my watched movie list. It's a 1958 low budget film written by H E Barrie and directed by Richard E Cunha. The Wikipedia says that it was part of a package of four films that producer Marc Frederic wanted for the Drive-In market. It was on a double bill with Cunha's Missile To The Moon. He only made a half dozen films, the two previous ones were She Demons and Giant From The Unknown, and the other two were Girl In Room 13 and When Strangers Meet. I'd seen the first two and they aren't any better than FD and MTTM. FD gets a 3.8 on the IMDb and that's pretty much where I'd pin it and the rest of the Canha films I've seen. 

Frankenstein's Daughter is about a scientist, Felix Locher as Dr Morton, who works out of his basement lab. His assistant, Donald Murphy as Oliver Frank, the grandson of Victor Frankenstein, has a different agenda from Dr Morton. Oliver wants to continue his grandfather's original work on creating life. Oliver has been experimenting on the scientist's daughter, Sandra Knight as Tracy Morton, turning her into a wild beast gal who runs about the street when she's been transformed into the hairy gal above. The other picture is of the monster Oliver creates and the other guy is Dr Morton's toady Elsu, played by Wolfe Barzell. The sad thing about that monster, other than the makeup, is that it was supposed to be a female monster but no one told makeup artist Harry Thomas. He made the beast a male and when he found out there was no budget or time to make a new mask. He put lipstick on the lips and sent it along to the set. When Cunha saw the makeup, he left the set and cried. The movie didn't make me cry but now I can say I've seen it.

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Beware! The Blob is the 1971 sequel to The Blob with Steve McQueen. It was slatted to be released in December of 1971 but it was held off until the summer of the next year. It really isn't a Christmas movie so that made some sense.I don't remember ever seeing it but I might have. My watched Movie List doesn't go back to the 1970s.

The movie has a story by Richard Clair and Jack H Harris, the screenplay is by Anthony Harris and Jack Woods, the director is Larry Hagman. Larry had directed 3 episodes of I Dream Of Jeannie and a couple of episodes of The Good Life before he directed this movie. He never directed another feature but he would direct 32 episodes of Dallas later on.

From the Wikipedia: In 1982, the film was re-issued with the tagline "The film that J.R. shot!" in an attempt to capitalize on the success of Hagman's television series Dallas, using a twist on the show's popular meme, "Who shot J.R.?"

It's got a great bunch of actors too: Robert Walker Jr, Richard Stahl, Gerrit Graham, Dick Van Patten, Richard Webb, Cindy Williams, Shelley Berman, Godfrey Cambridge, Larry Hagman, Carol Lynley, Burgess Meredith, Sid Haig and Del Close.

Godfrey returns home, from a job at the Arctic, with a weird substance they had dug up at the work site. In the first movie the military had dropped the indestructible Blob in the Arctic. Guess where the work site is? As soon at the temp warms it up The Blob thaws and starts killing. The first to go is a fly, then Godfrey's cat gets sucked into the red goo. We meet a bunch of townies and see them at their activities. A couple sees the Blob eat Godfrey but the local authorities don't believe them. Those cops look like dicks when more strange things start happening.

It was fun enough but it isn't great or anything. It gets a 4.1 on the IMDb and that's seems a bit low. It might not quite be a 5 but that's what I gave it. I don't think I'll bother buying the recent $15 Blu-Ray, though I might if I find it cheap sometime. 

Inseminoid is a 1981 British and Hong Kong production that's also known as Horror Planet. Run Run Shaw gets a producer credit at the start of the film but the only thing he did was cough up half the £1 million budget. It's written by Nick and Gloria Maley and directed by Norman J. Warren. Judy Geeson, Victoria Tennant and Stephanie Beacham are in the cast.

A spaceship full of humans lands on a planet where they find some evidence of a past society. They've set up a lab in the tunnels and collect stuff. A man is hurt by an explosion of some crystals. Another man goes crazy. Then Judy is raped by a monster and a child starts to grow.

Not a very handsome brute, huh. Judy is OK for a brief time then she goes into a homicidal rage and the killing starts.It's pretty much a slaughter fest to the end of the movie. Not the sort of thing everyone wants to see, I would imagine.

It gets a 3.6 on the IMDb, I gave it a 4 because it's better than a 3, so I know it's not a great film. While it's got it's problems, it's still fairly entertaining. It did fairly well in the box office. Some critics picked on it. There's a bit of gore, some nudity, some explosions and some action, fun stuff viewers expect in this sort of movie. The monster is kind of goofy but it's just there to supply a bit of mayhem and that crystal clear penis action and then it's gone. You don't even see the monster much, an arm here, a bit of his head, the transparent wang, you get the idea. It's a time honored tradition not to show the monster. Sometimes the budget dictates that. On the plus side, Judy Geeson is really quite good. She's worth taking a look. The movie is on YouTube and there's a link in the title above. Who knows you might like it but I'm betting you, like me, won't be rushing out to buy the DVD.

Invasion Of The Bee Girls 1973

 
Invasion Of The Bee Girls is a 1973 science fiction film that was directed by Denis Sanders. Denis directed a few films, some tv and some documentaries before he died in 1987. The screenplay was written by Nicolas Meyer. After this he wrote a couple of TV movies; Judge Dee And The Monastery Murders and The Night That Panicked America, which he followed with the novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.

The movie has a bunch of men killed while having sex. There's plenty of nudity as the ladies strip down for the killin'. The police are puzzled at first but they get some help from a pretty scientist. Turns out some lady scientists have been genetically modified by radiation and mutant bees. You can find out what happens at the link in the title above. It's all pretty silly but fun enough to make me get to the end of the movie and more than once. I have the movie in a cropped version on one of those 50 Movie Packs. This DVD has a much better version of the movie and it's widescreen.

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More Science Fiction films off of Amazon Prime. I tried to look around for better films but most of the better ones I've already seen. I do look the selections I haven't seen up on the internet but that often seems like a waste of time, sometimes it's just better to jump in and complain about it later. You really can't always believe the viewer comments because they aren't you. Besides on these low budget films hardly anyone has seen them and the votes they do get are often skewed by the film makers and their friends. There's one of the films below that had 11 votes and eight of them were 10's, two were 9's and the last single vote was an 8.

Flytrap is a 2015 indie SF film about an English College Professor who's taken a job in LA. He drives across country and while stopping in a town his car stalls and his phone won't work. He sees a woman looking at him from the window of a house and he goes to the house. The young woman meets him at the door and she tells him her name is Mary Ann. Mary Ann wants to have sex and the Professor gives into temptation and when he wakes up he's trapped. He tries to escape but he can't. We meet a couple of other men there, Gilligan and the Skipper. They put a neck band on the professor that causes pain. He eventually finds out he's in the hands of aliens. Mary Ann helps him escape but she's carrying his baby. Yuck, huh. It's ponderously slow and fairly dull. Scenes last a long time and they're all colored a sickly green. It's sure wasn't worth bothering with. I thought the poster was ugly too.

Citizen In The Temple is a 2015 short about an alien planet that is under a authoritarian government. There is a rebel group trying to take the government down. It's plot that you would find in many SF novels of the 50s. Here there's barely enough time to get much of a story going and it's just not very interesting. I'm not a fan of these short films, I'm not sure why they include them, other than to have more titles to offer. This one's 35 minutes but some are as short as 5 minutes. I try not to watch them. There aren't that many of them and I started watching this one without checking the time. Don't bother with it.

The Curious Female is a 1970 SF nudie comedy. It's produced, written and directed by Paul Rapp. It's the future of 2157 and the world is governed by a giant computer. The computer has gotten rid of morality, love and marriage. It's orgy time all the time. A secret group of citizens gets together to watch old movies from the times before the computer. The film they are watching is about a 1969 computer dating service. A guy wants to meet some virgins and the agency has three (out of 17,000) he can meet. One of the three women is Angelique Pettyjohn. You might remember her from that Star Trek episode she got famous for. The movie is pretty poor but I got a laugh out of it and there's some pretty girls running about without a stitch on. There's some terrible music that made me laugh too.

Z For Zachariah is a 2015 Icelandic film about the end of the world. It's based on a book I haven't read. I wouldn't want to either, at least based on the movie. It's all contained on a farm for the most part. The movie was set in California but was filmed in New Zealand. It's pokey slow and nothing much happens. Chris Pine is one of the three people in the movie.  He doesn't show up for a while, first we meet a gal who lives alone. A few minutes after we meet her we meet another guy who's out traveling. He bathes in contaminated water and gets sick. She helps him get better and he moves into her house. They farm and mostly get along but they don't start a relationship. Too bad, because a third guy shows up and that affects everything. It's directed by Craig Zobel who was inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky. I'm no fan of the Russian film maker but I know people who really like him a lot. It's much better than most of these free movies that I've been seeing but it's kind of down beat and depressing. One of the 2 last men on earth murders the other guy for the only woman. It scores a 6 on the IMDb and with nearly 17000 votes cast I think it probably about right. I gave it a 5. it's well made but lacks interest for me, I wouldn't want to watch it again anytime. Others will like it better.

That's enough for today. Still haven't found that special low budget film I'm always looking for, maybe next week. Who knows.

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Joe brought the Blu-ray of Star Wars: The Force Awakened and we watched that. It was alright. My only complaint is a common one. Why wouldn't they have made a story that was less like the story we'd already seen. The other thing I got out of the on-going story is that the Darth Vader clan are some of the worst people in the Galaxy. The universe would be a lot better off if they hadn't breed. Oddly enough the two movies we watched both have smugglers as main characters.

The Bees is a 1978 horror film about killer bees. It's written and directed by Alfredo Zacarias. He mostly works in Mexico and this is the first of a couple of films he made in the US. Demonoid: Messenger Of Death was made next and then he was back in Mexico. I haven't seen it. The Bees stars John Saxon, Angel Tompkins and John Carradine. The two John's are scientists who study bees and they are working on the killer bee problem in South America. Angel and her scientist husband have a bee farm in South America where they're studying the killer bees and have some KB hives in a locked netted enclosure. A father and son sneak into the farm hives to steal honey. Unfortunately they break into the killer bee hives and the bees attack. The son dies and father stirs up the villagers. They get violent and attack the farm. Angel's husband is killed but she's saved because he hid her in the walk in freezer.

In New York the two John's appeal to the UN for money and help to study the bees. They can't get the different countries to agree and Carradine busts a jar of the killer bees to chase the men out of the room. He's a character and it turns out that he's Angel's Uncle. She's smuggles killer bees in her luggage so that the two John's can carry on more research. Of course she's mugged in the elevator of John Saxon's apartment. The muggers open the KB case and die from the stings. Angel retrieves the case, luckily the queen and drones are safe, but some of the bees have escaped. She works with the John's to set up a research center. The random escaped bees colonize and breed like rabbits. One of the things the movie fails to do is establish is how much time has past. You get some clues from what you see on screen but they are as vague as the science in the film. Some greedy businessmen have also tried smuggling bees into the country. The bees escape in the plane and it lands in Mexico City. Now even more bees on the loose. Things get worse and worse as the bees increase their numbers and start attacking people everywhere. There's more villainous activity.

Poor John Carradine is killed by a greedy politician who was secretly skimming money from the KB research programs in South America. John and Angel start a romance while they continue to work on Carradine's communication with the bees. They eventually succeed and the US is saved but not before the bees get their revenge on Carradine's killer and the evil politician that sent the hit man. It all ties up pretty well and that's saying something for a movie as poorly written and directed as this one was. Occasionally some of the dialog made me laugh. It scores a 3 on the IMDb and that's about what it should be. It was still fun to watch and we all got a laugh out of it. The odd choices for music had me giggling at times. The ending made both me and Joe have thoughts about M Night Shyamalan's The Happening. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't like this sort of thing. A couple of the other fellows thought it was better than The Swarm, no where near as boring. The Wikipedia says that Warner Brothers paid New Line Cinema to delay the release of The Bees so it wouldn't be out the same time as The Swarm.