The Food of the Gods (1976)

Did you people see the same film I saw?

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

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!!

The animal life of a remote farming community grows to enormous size after eating from a mysterious product and threatens the locals; in the meantime, members of an inland food-manufacturing company seek to exploit the discovery as a deterrent to world starvation. A sound cautionary tale by a visionary author (H.G. Wells) is perfunctorily rendered in B-movie terms: annoying stereotypes and iffy special effects abound and the sound effects – in which every animal seems to emulate the cry of a distraught feline! – are particularly grating. Director Gordon had already tackled (equally liberally and even less effectively) the same literary source in his earlier film, VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS (1965); at least here, we have the hamminess of heroic football player Marjoe Gortner and slimy businessman Ralph Meeker on the one hand and the intensity of Meeker's aide Pamela Franklin and farm woman Ida Lupino on the other for added entertainment value. It is rather unfortunate that, out of the four species depicted 'under the influence' of the titular snack – wasps, worms, rats and (most hilariously) chicken! – the narrative picks up the former as its main focus since marauding rodents have had their fair share of screen vehicles. Even so, for someone who hates them myself, it was somewhat gratifying to watch them getting vividly blown away, electrocuted and drowned!! Apparently, this was followed by a sequel 13 years later...

Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps.Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken.After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size.The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilising to do battle with the human intruders....If you want to see a film with a man fighting a giant rubber chicken, look no further.Yes, the film is trite, it has so many problems that you just have to laugh at all the bizarreness of the finished product.Killer wasps that look like they are ghosts, rats superimposed to look like they are huge, Mrs skinner saying 'oh my god' every five minutes, and Morgans mullet.The script is awful, the narration bad, and the acting is what can be expected, when the most recognisable people in this, are the bloke from American Ninja 3, and the one who played 'Man At Arms' in Masters of the Universe.It tries to be serious, but fails miserably, but is good for a once only, laugh in.And to threaten us with a sequel featuring huge cows deserves a round of applause.Crazy stuff, but so worth watching.

Bert I. Gordon -- aka BIG -- directed a number of B movies (or sometimes C movies) including "The Food of the Gods" and "Empire of the Ants", both based loosely on H.G. Wells stories. The former depicts a substance that turns animals giant...and then the animals turn against the humans! Nature's vengeance! Watching the movie, I laughed at how atrocious it was. Terrible acting, directing and script, not to mention cheesy special effects. The sort of movie that should have appeared on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". In all fairness to the movie, we do get to see some great shots of the islands off the coast of British Columbia. Aside from that, "The Food of the Gods" is one of the most hilariously bad flicks out there. Ditto "Empire of the Ants".