Frogs

Nature strikes back at man in this tale filmed in Florida’s Eden State Park. Jason: Ray Milland. Pickett: Sam Elliott. Karen: Joan Van Ark. Clint: Adam Roarke. Bella: Judy Pace. Kenneth: Nicholas Cortland. Jenny: Lynn Borden. Maybelle: Mae Mercer. Directed by George McCowan., In retaliation for the rich owner’s environmental misdeeds, a Florida mansion is laid siege on all sides by swampland frogs. This dopey horror flick is one of the first to use the environmentally active angle., Ecological shocker in which alligators, snakes, lizards, turtles and insects, all led by intelligent frogs, attack the residents of a Florida plantation in revenge for the pollution of their bayou. One by one the greedy members of a family that has grown rich through shortsighted environmental exploitation meet their horrible fates as the animals strike back. Silly but fun entry in the 1970s nature-on-the-rampage genre., A revenge-of-nature-type film in which thousands of swamp critters attack a wheelchair-bound, Deep South plantation owner and his family on his birthday…the 4th of July…probably because he’s been destroying the bayou wildlife and now they’re on the warpath to destroy him., A man who poisons all animals and plants is finally turned upon by nature itself on the night of his birthday.