The Swarm (film)
The Swarm is a 1978 science fiction monster horror film about a killer bee invasion of Texas. It was adapted from a novel of the same name by Arthur Herzog.
A group of soldiers led by Maj. Baker Bradford Dillman is ordered to investigate a basement level station which they believed was attacked. After Baker contacts his commander, Gen. Slater Richard Widmark, they begin to investigate who drove a civilian van into the base. It is revealed to be owned by a scientist named Dr. Bradford Crane Michael Caine, the only survivor of the attack. Slater orders two helicopters to check for a black mass revealed to be bees, but the two helicopters are swarmed by the bees and crash, killing the pilots inside. Crane insists to Slater that the base was attacked by the same African killer bees that destroyed the helicopters. Helena Anderson Katharine Ross, one of the bases doctors, supports Cranes story.Meanwhile, in the countryside, a family is attacked by a swarm of the bees. Paul, their teenaged son manages to escape in a Mustang, although he is also stung, and crashes into the Marysville town square, where the citizens are preparing for the annual flower festival. The boy is brought into the hands of military personnel, where he hallucinates a vision of giant bees attacking him, due to the aftereffects of the bee sting. Wheelchair bound Dr. Walter Krim Henry Fonda confirms to Crane that the very war they have feared for a long time has started against the bees. At the gates of the base, Slater must confront angry country bumpkin Jed Hawkins Slim Pickens who demands to see the dead body of his son, who was killed by the bees. Hawkins takes the body bag and departs, leaving the entire watching crowd silent over the loss. Slater suggests airdropping poison on the swarm, but Crane considers the ecological possibilities of the situation. ........
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