Frogs is a 1972 critters against humans movie. In fact, most of the animal attacks are not carried out by frogs. It's an MGM movie and the DVD is packaged similarly to the Midnite Movie series but there's no MM logo. The VHS that came out before the DVD has the Midnite Movies logo. I'm not quite crazy enough to want to collect the VHS versions of movies though I know that there are still many that are. It's directed by George McGowan and written by Robert Hutchison and Robert Blees. Robert H doesn't really have any other credits but Robert B has some interesting credits. I've seen a few of his works and like The Black Scorpion, High School Confidential, Screaming Mimi, From The Earth To The Moon, Who Slew Auntie Roo? and Dr Phibes Arises Again. George is mostly a TV director. He's Canadian and one of the 1960s programs he worked on was Seaway. I was fond of that show when it was new. I remember seeing one of his TV movies, after he started working in the US, Run, Simon, Run with Burt Reynolds. He even directed a couple of episodes of The Starlost. Later he would direct some much better programs.
Frogs is a bit pokey as it intros the characters. A really young Sam Elliot is a wildlife photographer and he comes in contact with Ray Milland's family on an island in the swap somewhere. Milland is rich and he has a mansion on the island. Not a place I would go on a bet but there you go, people will pick the worse places to live. Once all the people get sorted out they start talking about how noisy the frogs are. Ray has poisoned the area trying to kill wildlife. He's a selfish asshole who likes being the boss. The clan is visiting because it's his birthday the next day. Before the bunch of them can get some cake the killing starts. One by one the family is killed off by one sort of critter or another. There are escape attempts but only Sam, Joan Van Ark and a couple of her nephews manage to get across the swamp. Pretty soon it's only Ray in the house with his dog and the frogs.
It's almost fun to watch but it's not more than so-so to me. I gave it a 3 on the IMDb when I saw it years ago and I don't see any reason to change my vote now.
Horror House On Highway 5 is a minuscule budget horror film with little going for it. The DVD was 3 bucks at the local used place and I picked it up. Money wasted. It's all the work of Richard Casey.
The DVD has quotes taken from an IMDb user and another from Geocities. Remember the latter? The guy on the IMDb, Daniel Shea says Take Some college students, put them in a van, throw in a killer in a Richard Nixon mask and BANG, you've got an instant classic. What bullshit! I found the review, which appears under the name malenko, on the IMDb. Where did that David Shea name come from? Richard's ass? Here's the rest of the review.
The plot includes Nazis,rape,mysterious rooms, and that's about it. But this is what makes the film great, it's total ineptness at everything, from creating suspense to scaring the viewer. And the glue that holds the whole film together is the most whacked out, ludicrously insane soundtrack in movie history. If you don't want to watch the movie(which I could understand, but you'll miss out on some wonderful chase scenes involving President Nixon)just put the movie in your VCR, close your eyes and listen to the jarring sounds of Horror House On Highway Five. Also make sure not to miss one of the least satisfying and sensible endings in movie history.
Pretty much more bullshit. The movie is poorly made, poorly acted and poorly directed. It looks like shit and the sound isn't much better. Don Dohler makes better movies than this. The DVD looks terrible. Like they beat a poorly exposed print with rocks before transferring it, again poorly, at the local Photomat."Color correction, what the fuck is that?"
I gave it a 1, someone needed punishment after me sitting through this mess. I couldn't find anything good about it, but it makes me wish they had a Punch In The Face button on the IMDb. I see that Richard made Horror House On Highway 6 a few years ago. I doubt that I will ever see that.
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