The Food of the Gods (film)

The Food of the Gods is a 1976 science fiction thriller film released by American International Pictures and was written, produced, and directed by Bert I. Gordon.

The film reduced Wells tale to an Ecology Strikes Back scenario, common in science fiction movies at the time. The food mysteriously bubbles up from the ground on a remote island somewhere in British Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Skinner John McLiam and Ida Lupino consider it a gift from God, and feed it to their chickens, which grow larger than humans as a result. Rats, wasps, and grub worms also consume the substance, and the island becomes infested with giant vermin. One night, a swarm of giant rats kill Mr. Skinner after his car breaks down in the forest.A professional football player named Morgan Marjoe Gortner is on the island for a hunting trip with his buddies when one of them is stung to death by giant wasps. After ferrying his friends back to the mainland, Morgan returns to investigate. Also thrown into the mix are Thomas and Rita Tom Stovall and Belinda Balaski, an expecting couple Jack Bensington Ralph Meeker, the owner of a dog food company, who hopes to market the substance and Bensingtons assistant Lorna Pamela Franklin, a lady bacteriologist. After Morgan locates and dynamites the giant wasps enormous nest, he and the others become trapped in the Skinners farmhouse, surrounded by giant rats. Mrs. Skinner, Morgans friend Brian Jon Cypher, and Bensington are killed by the rats. ........

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