Marjoe Gortner wasn't plausible as a football player, especially not as a genius football player who knows exactly what to do to defeat the giant rats.
An elderly couple (Ida Lupino and John MacLiam) have discovered the Food of the Gods bubbling up from the ground. It was sort of white, but they thought it was oil. When they realized it wasn't oil, they fed it to the chickens and it turned them giant.
Starts with a guy being attacked by giant wasps. He dies a horrble death. Marjoe runs to get help, finds a house and is attacked by a giant chicken. He stays focused and runs to the house and asks to use the phone, but they don't have one.
It ends up with Marjoe and John Cypher returning to the island. They blow up the giant wasps nest. But there's also a pregnant young woman and her husband whose Winnebago has gotten stuck and Ralph Meeker and Pamela Franklin and rushing to the house to buy the Food of the Gods from the old couple.
One of these movies where people take it upon themselves to destroy a miracle of nature because their initial brush with it doesn't go well. Wouldn't all this stuff be of some scientific interest? Couldn't it be a boon to mankind?
The Winnebago appears to be a Tonka toy and I assume the Volkswagen was, too. In fairness, they used Star Wars toys as miniatures after the first Star Wars movie, too.
I don't know how much suffering they inflicted on the poor rats in this movie. I didn't see the Humane Society thing assuring us that no animals were harmed.
I hadn't seen this thing since the '70's. I didn't think much of it back then but after Empire of the Ants made just a year later, I thought I should give it another shot.
It's not his fault, but I can't stand Marjoe Gortner.
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