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I ca n’t overstress how misleading the deed of conveyance Frogs is . This is a film ostensibly about orca frogs , in which the frogs do n’t really do any of the killing . To be fair , they are a constant presence - lurking in every shot and ribbiting their way into your nightmares . ( Honestly , without amphibian response shots the picture show would be half as long . ) But a more pertinent title would incorporate all the other creature that attack the environmentally - unfriendly family at the film ’s nerve centre . My proffer ? Frogs , But Mostly Snakes , Lizards , Spiders , Birds , Leeches , Alligators , Giant Turtles , Crabs , and Butterflies . Terrifying .

Of course , the genuine villains in this 1972 eco - repulsion flick are the humans . If they were n’t stump their carbon footprints all over the island , spray pesticide willy - nilly , the aboriginal metal money would n’t be push to take up arms against them . The hoi polloi are universally terrible , aside from our stalwart hero Smith , dally by a strapping Sam Elliott . On the one hand , this make it an awesome spate easy to side with nature . On the other , why am I presuppose to care if everyone dies ?

The only respectable thing the humans do is figure out the problem apace . Primary adversary Jason Crockett , played by the iconic Ray Milland , declares , “ I still believe man is the passe-partout of the world . ” In other word : poison everything . To which Smith wittingly replies , “ What if nature were seek to get back at us ? ” He also gets point for remembering to use the subjunctive .

That having been say , my real problem with Frogs is the absurdness of it all - and I say this as someone who would have bought a film about killer frogs . Frogs on a rampage ? I can accept that . anuran banding together with every other species in the penny-pinching locality ? That ’s just illogical . I have a tough time with movies about animals seek revenge - aside from genetically - enhanced primates . ( What up , Rise of the Planet of the Apes . ) Nature is shivery enough without turtle and boo brook together against a coarse foe . And when you factor in that old science - fiction stand - by radiation , there are plenty of ways to conceivably ( at least in this context ) make lizard sanguinary .

I gauge this is a empty-headed ivory to pick , especially when some of the greatest beast - gone - regretful horror flicks - The Birds , for example - involve creatures going apeshit on humans for no reason at all . Why am I okay with that , but not OK with the estimate that spiders are actively conspiring against us ? peradventure it ’s their bantam wanderer encephalon . Maybe I ’m just disappointed that I watched a movie promise Frogs and did n’t get to see the titulary amphibians do any price .

OK , fine , let ’s move past this : I will suspend my mental rejection enough to take on the island ’s outpouring against its douchey human inhabitants . But at least give me some creative kills . The havoc these creature wreak is surprisingly lame - and I ’m not just bring up to the batrachian ’ inaction . How do the lizards take down their prey ? They designedly rap over a crowd of bottles marked poisonous substance and hotbox a greenhouse with noxious gas . For their part , the spiders slowly cower toward their dupe and then bite him . I think . It ’s not really unmortgaged what ’s going on , though his writhing O - face broadcast a interracial substance , to say the least .

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And the balance of the critters - the legitimately scary ones , like the snakes and the gators - don’t unleash any special illusion . They bite , and then they ’re done . Which , nice rifle with the naturalism , but if you ’re going to present a scenario in which all of these creatures are ( telepathically ? ) commune in a calculated attack on the humans , why ca n’t they be a piffling originative with it ? As stupefied as the scene of the lizards strategically pick apart over poison is , at least those Guy put some effort into the proceedings . I would have like to see the natural killers think outside of the boxwood a bit .

Now , let ’s return to the claim , just for a moment . Why are the frogs front and center ? Was this film pitched as a anuran vs. multitude rumble in the jungle , or were they simply forced to pluck an fauna and run with it ? While frogs are n’t inherently scary , there ’s a lot of cloth to mine there . Frogs were one of the ten plagues of Egypt . Frogs are an animal most all of us dissected in simple schooltime . Frogs have long been associated with witchery . But the movie does n’t do anything with its frogs : they just hang out , occasionally pressing against the glass doorway , or - in one particularly harrowing scene - hopping all over Mr. Crockett ’s American flagstone - decorated natal day cake .

OK , there was one nerveless frog second . After the credits , an animated frog jumps out with a script in its sassing , which it then swallows , clamorously . It ’s kind of cute and kind of creepy . But it ’s literally the terminal three second of the movie - and thus , not worth the wait .

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