Boring

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I should give this move a "10" simply based on the fact that I remembered watching it when it first came out at the age of 7. This was one of those movies that my mom watched after my brother and I "Went to bed". Little did she know we would often sneak out of bed and peer into the living room where we could clearly see the television. At the point that this movie first showed it's ENORMOUS SIZED animals we were glued to the screen and so enthralled that we couldn't look away. It was only in our dreams that the horrifying scene of the gigantic rats haunted us both again and again. Over the years the nightmares came less and less but the title never left my head...when I just happened to come across this movie that has been tucked away in my mind since I was a little girl I just had to tell you what kind of impact it had on a little 7 year old girls and her 5 year old baby brother. Although the movie is a far stretch from realistic by today's standards back then it was terrifying! Way to go Food of the Gods!!

On an island, some crazy old lady and her husband found some white goo seeping out of the earth. So, they did what anyone would do--they mixed it with animal feed and gave it to their farm animals. The animals then grew to enormous proportions and soon had a craving for human flesh. Some particularly dim people get themselves stuck on the island and must fight giant animal models (being thrust at them by people from the props department) to survive. All the while, a REALLY dumb rich guy is imagining the riches he'll make by harvesting this goo! I was not at all surprised to see Marjoe Gortner starring in a crap movie like this. What surprised me was seeing some once decent actors whoring themselves out in this film. To a small extent I was surprised to see Ralph Meeker but even more surprising was the famous 1930s-40 actress/director Ida Lupino. Was she bankrupt? Was she being blackmailed?! All I know is that the film is every bit as bad as the worst giant animal films of the 50s and 60s and 70s and these two never should have taken these parts.Dumb acting, VERY dumb writing, horrible props and the like sink this production. One of the finer moments in the film was when giant bees attack as folks are INSIDE the cabin--so naturally one of them goes outside with a shovel to fight them! Later, when a Winnebago has a GIANT rat on the roof, the husband tells his wife (who is safely inside) to come outside to see the rat that is the size of a cow! Duh!!! By the way, this film would make a wonderful double-feature with "Night of the Lepus"--a 70s film about giant killer bunnies that is nearly the equal to "Food of the Gods" in the stupidity department.

Advertised as based on "portions" of the H. G. Wells novel, this muck has virtually nothing to do with that text. A couple of farmers on a small island apparently find a substance that oozes to the surface which they quickly decide to mix with chicken feed and feed to their chickens. The chickens grow to phenomenal sizes as do the bugs likes bees and wasps and worms that eat this and later the rats. The whole story is preposterous but unfortunately for we the viewers we get a wrap-a-round story of a football player and his two chums taking a hunting vacation on the island. Why? I guess the director Mr. B.I.G himself - Bert I. Gordon - thought the extra story was needed. He was right in theory but was proved wrong - way wrong - in execution. This movie fails miserably on most levels. It has a few good scenes - okay, almost decent ones. The director has really little skill, and he has shown that throughout his career. I find movies like The Amazing Colassal Man and its sequel entertaining, but Gordon's early 50's work is definitely his best work. By the 70s his work was so poorly crafted amidst higher expectations from audiences. Gordon still was using cheaply crafted special effects. Here we get "giant" animals in miniature set pieces(a Gordon trademark), large plastic animals, a huge rooster on strings like a puppet, and filmed rats crawling over various vehicles and a house(I think the films were layered). We get a substandard cast who either cannot act(Marjoe Gorter in the lead) or some reliable(usually) character actors who are out of place or asked to phone it in(Ralph Meeker and Pamela Franklin) or a once proud actress/director on the skids of her acting career(Ida Lupino). You really cannot blame any of them. This movie reeks! Generally I find something likable to films like this, but this one didn't seem to have much that interested me except the ending. Finally much needed relief came.

Three friends with big faces go to an island to relax by chasing a deer to death with dogs. There's so many over-sized faces at the start of this movie it's like watching Easter Island statues bobbing around. This merry jaunt is interrupted when some giant wasps kill one of them.This film is full of laughs, most of which come from the unconvincing giant animals. The rats look OK in close up but the giant chicken is one of the funniest monsters I've ever seen and easily the highlight of the entire film.I liked the character development too. They want to show that the businessman is a real typical 70's businessman jerk so there's one line where he stands opening a gate and says "open the god dam gate" for no obvious reason. Granted it's not quite on a par with a giant chicken head pecking at you but it made me laugh all the same. The crazy religious woman is equally subtly sketched with her endless talk of sin. The ultra-hostile "female bacteriologist" is pretty funny too. Check out the bit where her biological clock goes off during a rat attack. Funny stuff.The whole movie is pretty much rats being shot with paint ball pellets while roaring like a tiger and climbing on a dolls house. The basic fact that rats can swim doesn't fit with the ending so there's a clunky scene where we get told that giant rats can't swim. They can't swim OK, and we're not just saying that because we've already filmed the ending before someone pointed out that they can swim.Also, how come there's a dam on an island in the first place? Geography wasn't my best subject but wouldn't that mean the island was lower than the level of the water? If you've seen any of Big Berts other movies you'll know what to expect. Definitely one for bad movie fans only!