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Feb 042013
 

The Deadly Bees


TITLE: The Deadly Bees

YEAR RELEASED: 1966

DIRECTOR: Freddie Francis

CAST: Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay and Guy Doleman

PLOT: Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm’s owner grows deadly bees.

MINI-REVIEW: So much potential, so little horror! This film is based on Robert “Psycho” Bloch’s novel, but he wrote it for Christopher Lee and Boris Karloff, who had scheduling conflicts and couldn’t be in it. How cool would it have been with those two in it? But instead, even with Freddie Francis at the helm directing, it is just ho-hum. More of a mystery than a horror. Watch for a pleasant little Bee-grade thriller not for many shocks!



 February 4, 2013  Posted by at 11:00 am
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