So I guess this is what they call a B movie.

9 guys with flamethrowers vs a billion bees really fits with that meme of absurd fights, like a billion lions vs the sun.

I don't know if anyone wrote about it already, but I think that the robot parents were cast primarily for their ability to receive bees on them. Any acting skills would have been a bonus.

Also, I love that Helena closes the door on her bee hallucination at 16:16. I didn't know you could stop an imaginary bee with a physical door. Good to know.

That is the cutest giant bee hallucination I've ever seen, and this is one of the weirdest sentences I've ever written.

A large amount of bee stings, in a short periods of time, can give people hallucinations. It’s a weird reaction from the Bee Venom. It seems weird in the movie, because we only associate bee stings with death or pain, not other reactions.

The saddest part about this movie is that its actually pretty accurate with how dumb people are when they panic. People panicking caused most of the death and disaster in this movie, and in real life that's pretty much the way it really goes.

I love the scene at the end. Michael so calmly delivers his closing remarks set to the background of a huge roiling inferno!! Comedy gold!

What is Michael Caine's profession in this film? Scientist/bee behaviour expert/child psychologist/sunflower seed merchant/local spokesman?

"Everything explodes, the ambulance explodes, store explodes, the chairs explodes. idk why on that part of his review; I die of laughter. 😂😂😂

My dad was a special effects supervisor on this show and they did use real bees for the human interactions and what they did was that they had to unsting all the bees and they did this for hundreds of bees

i'm waiting for Beedemic to be announced

As the blob grew closer, the crowd listened intently. "It's a low buzzing sound!" A man exclaimed. "Wait... no it's voices! I think it's saying something!" As the dark mass descended upon the terrorized crowd 1 billion voices could be heard all faintly asking "Ya like jazz?"

Jesus Christ that really is Olivia De Havilland in there. She was in Gone With the Wind. And Captain Blood. Maybe she had some really pressing gambling debts that year...

Everything explodes? Must bee a Michael Bay movie.

Michael Bay's favorite movie as a kid.

I've been binge watching these for days. This dude is hysterical!

I remember watching this when I was a kid, and for a minute I thought it was a dream. I was asking so many people for the Movie name, with the only part that I remember being “a kid with a lollipop dead to bees”

Another good one, although you have no idea what a nightmare inducing movie it was when I was a 7 year old kid. I loved it so much and was convinced it was the best movie ever - back in 1978;))))

The Swarm was one of those movies you would catch on cable during the day in the 80s when sick from school lol

That 'magnificent acting' was only done by double Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland, one of the best actresses of all time; who starred in Gone With The Wind, and who worked in classics with Errol Flynn; who was born in 1916 and IS STILL ALIVE! Her sister was also a great Oscar winning actress too in Joan Fontaine, and they infamously detested each other. This must be the worst film with the best cast; I thought The Exorcist II would take it, but this has Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Fred MacMurray, Olivia de Havilland, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens (best name ever), Jose Ferrer, Richard Chamberlain, and to top it off, the legendary Henry Fonda! Sheesh!!! :O

I saw this movie on cable TV when I was in the 4th grade in the 70s. It scared the 💩 out of me at the time, just the images of being covered in bees. I only remember the picnic and school scenes. So many big name actors were in this movie, including the side characters: Katherine Ross, Olivia de Havilland & Patty Duke were the ones that stood out to me. Of course I was too young to know who they were at the time.

The funniest thing about this movie? It was nominated for an ACADEMY AWARD! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!

I withdrew from cocaine and opioids numerous times and never once sweated that profusely. That child is clearly addicted to cough syrup. He's Robi-tripping the entire film.

How did it get burned? HOW DID IT GET BURNED HOW DID IT GET BURNED?!

The subplot involving Fred MacMurray and Ben Johnson courting Olivia de Havilland is indeed well made enough to be a short film by it's own considering that segment was somewhat amusing and it had some of the best dialogue and performances though it's not saying much we are talking about "The Swarm" after all

13:15 "And then, when they reach the bottom, they _all_ explode?" Hey, if random things bursting into flames works for "The Simpsons," it ought to work for "The Swarm."

I can't help but laugh at the drinking parts and your comment on the "date" scene. 😁

"How bad is the swarm" Me: IT'S REALLY BAD!

"...Why is this boy always sweating?" and "Is this a movie or a circus?" had me dying!

The explanation at the end where they're burning the bees inside the building, setting people on fire. I was in tears laughing.

THEY STUNG HIM! THEY'RE GONNA STING ME! OH MY GAWWWWWWWWWWWWD!

At 4:22....with this huge swarm of bees....i think it wouldnt ve really mattered if someone was allergic....this many stings would ve killed a horse!

The Africans. ....hilarious! Did he just say "collecting Africans?!" LMAO

Not the Bees!! They're in my eyes!!!

Love how after Mark takes his first shot he walks back to the studio and keeps talking with his laid- back voice...lol

Your summary of the scene is comedy gold, LOL

4:52: That's B/C grade movie legend Cameron Mitchell!

Haha hey Mark, there is NO SCRIPT. They just adapted scenes from the novel onset. I swear. Look at the wikipedia page. Jezus...

Irwin Allen the master of disaster. I still watch the movie The Towering inferno.

I like these long reviews. Keep it up!

I love this channel. Every video is freaking hilarious. I don't know how it's possible that it doesn't have more subscribers. That's bullshit!

Profound words to live by. From a most unlikely source. "I always assume the enemy is of equal to superior intelligence."- Richard Widmark's character in The Swarm. Thereby adequately preparing and strategizing. To avoid the element of surprise!

That moment when u realise this is the same guy in dkr, dark knight and batman begins

I laughed entirely too hard when you called him "sweaty kid" 😂

"You couldn't pay me to watch this movie!" OH, WAIT! Yes you can! =)

The part where he goes "I am hungry" and you said did you marry a robot? I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Thank you.

16:16 Now, THAT is acting. Give her all the Oscars.

my favourite Michael Cain quote is from when he was asked why he would do such a bad movie (jaws the revenge) and he told them "I never saw the film, but I saw the house it built me"

You should do a review of Cat In The Hat starring Mike Myers. Seriously this movie was nominated for a few Razzies and it just plain sucks. It is really hard to watch Mike Myers act the way he does, like a complete unfunny buffoon. Am I the only one who feels Dr. Seuss books just shouldn't be adapted into full length movies, regardless of whether they're animated or live action?

The shitiest movie with the biggest all star cast i can think of. I was like 13-14 yrs old when this came out and saw it. My dad took me to see it on one of his rare weekend visits. He passed out during the film out of drunken boredom . Seen it again about 20 years later and i had forgot just how shitty the movie was. I can not imagine them tacking on 40 MINUTES to this cluster fuck of a film. That is just plain torture. The film cast is just chalked full of Oscar , Golden Globe nominees and winners. How they got them to appear in this train wreck of a film is proof that everyone spent all their money in the 70s on coke and divorce lawyers.

This movie was very much of its time. Irwin Allen had the 1, 2 punch of The Posideon Avdenture and The Towering Inferno and then the three strikes and out of this movie followed by Beyond the Posiedon Adventure .and When Time Ran Out. Meanwhile the Airport movies were getting more hysterical and comedic at this time making the genre ripe for parody in Airplane!

Then the chairs explode LMAO i was dying laughing

I actually saw this when I was 5 and it traumatized me. I was freakishly afraid of bees and the world ending by bee swarms for years. thanks. Now I see how dumb it is. I am less afraid of the future 😆😆😆

Y’know, I think this might be the source of the Michael Cane flashback footage from that scene in Austin Powers

How has Michael Cane survived so many bad movies? This, Jaws 4, Beyond the Poseidon's Adventure... You must know of others.

that movie scared me, especially when he saw the bee in front of him. i am allergic to bees so any bee movie I tends to have issues with lol

“We have collected live Africans.” Lol Oh god....they had to have known how that sounded.

I love your work, man. I'm over here on the couch with tears pouring from my eyes from laughing so hard. Keep up the videos please!!!!!

its crazy that the train was filled with all that explosive electricity

i just wish i could have a couple of beers on a sunny saturday morning with you brah:D. i hope you'll become a legend one day

The film that literally drove you to drink! LOL! Poor Mark, you shouldn't let it bug you so much. Get it... "bug"? Bwahahahahahahahahaaa!!! Um... anyway... Great review! Yayy!!!

Having sat through the theatrical cut, I salute your bravery diving into this uninitiated, and providing your great take on it! ... it was one of the last gasps of the Disaster Movie fad that started with The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno (both produced by Irwin Allen, who actually directed this thing) and attempting to pull in the "killer bee" scare that was constantly being brought up on the news at the time. That's why there's SO MANY "stars" and posters feature little boxes with all the famous people in the film (hey, you probably like one or two of these guys, don't you??) and plots that go nowhere. It's based on a novel that has very little to do with the plot, and because it was a big studio film, the indy film companies raced to put other killer bee movies to compete (The Bees, with John Saxon, is particularly hilarious, and The Savage Bees was a goofy TV movie where they trapped the bees in the Astrodome). Perhaps knowing how ridiculous the whole thing was, composer Jerry Goldsmith wrote the bee attack music in the key of B.

9:31 I can totally see why those 3 men wanted to marry that woman. What passion

1:48 I thought shit Will Farell !!

The not-cowboy old man in love is FRED MAC MURRAY, the star of the greatest film noir ever "DOUBLE INDEMNITY"

The part where you said that everything explodes, including the chairs, made me burst in laughter. XD

I like how the backround animation is visible on the green part of the scarf of the chicken on the left of Mark's Shirt (many "of", such wow) when he moves a certain way. This happens on other videos, too.

BEAD'S?! Or are you saying BEE'S?

16:21 is my new ringtone.

Hilarious. The scene with the flame throwers inside the building is just hilarious.

Ok, I just laughed my ass off with the vodka parts! Keep at it Mark and may you have a great x-mass and new year's eve!

Hi, Mark, i'm from Brazil and i love your work, dude! All your reviews are hilarious! Congratulations. You should do a review for one of the worst movie i've seen this year: Left Behind with Nicolas Cage. It's a pile of crap and i would love to see you talking about this kkkkkk

😂😂Can i have a min, I'll be right back. Lmao

Wow, your kitchen layout is identical to the scene in Pulp Fiction when Bruce "Butch" Willis pops that tart into his toaster. I half expected Vincent to burst out that door in the back.

_mysterious man takes off hat and wipes sweat from the rim_ *"I'm the bee wrangler"*

Holy shit, that's Olivia De Havilland! She must've been hard up once that Gone With The Wind money ran out.

Christ dude, my sides actually hurt after watching this. I don't think that's happened since I was a kid!

There was a 'made for TV' movie about killer bees in the mid 90s that was pretty atrocious too. It was right around when killer bees were threatening to migrate to the US!

😂😂😂Aww man. This is still my favorite video of Mark's. Love the deadpan humor. His newest vids don't have that same dry delivery. But I love him just the same 😊

The actor who played the major was named Richard Widmark, a big name star at the time; and the little old lady was Olivia de Haviland, she starred opposite Erol Flynn and is screen icon, and yet the only actor you were able to name was Michael Caine? Kids.

Perfect, man. You made my day. Your disgust at these bad movies is hilarious and entertaining. Love the whiskey shot scenes.

They filmed the train sequence (loading passengers not the crash) by my house. It was big news for my little neighborhood. This was probably the last of the Irwin Allen-oid disaster movies: they lasted like 3 hours each, and featured 90000 stars from yesteryears. Usually led by Henry Fonda and/or Shelly WInters. Heap big nostalgia push, I guess. But I remember "Earthquake" and all the "Airport" movies, and "The Poseidon Adventure" and more that escape my memory just now. It never occurred to me at the time that people would be watching 40 years later and wondering just what the heck was up with everybody fawning over Olivia deHaviland. It made perfect sense to me, especially as that was around the same year "Gone With The Wind" was being shown on TV the first time. Everybody loved Melanie Wilkes.

I happily watched this every year it was on tv, just like The Towering Inferno, Earthquake and The Poseidon Adventure!

Love a good 20 minute video! On a side note, I got birdemic on DVD and it was brilliantly awful

I saw this movie at the cinema. Even as a kid I thought it was crap. Saying nothing new here, just expressing.

I do appreciate the frustrated shots you take throughout your videos

Oh brother. I remember watching this when i was a kid scared as F of the coming bee swarm in the late '70s!! Damn I'm old!! Great stuff dude!

Ha! It's just all bee videos in the suggestions. :)

Awesome dude, just.. awesome. I feel like there aren't enough bad movies in the world for you to review.

I just find you really funny that I never miss the jokes at the end of every video. If only you uploaded more though.

The Swarm is my favourite killer bee flick. It’s basically Towering Inferno, but with killer bees. It was nice to see Richard Widmark in it. Gripping stuff. I liked the length.

The pregnant woman was played by Patty Duke who was most famous for playing two roles as identical cousins on The Patty Duke Show. It ran from 1963 to 1966...........Not that it makes the plot any better, nor does it tell you ANYTHING about who her character is in the movie or why you should even care about her.......hmmmm, I guess if there is any information to be gleaned from that tidbit....it's probably that I have a very large amount of useless acting trivia floating around in my head.......F**k it....Can I get one of those shots?!?!?!

16:50 I THOUGHT THAT WAS A WATER TRUCK

Sir Michael Caine said last week that he didn't read the script. He saw who was gonna be in it and said yes. He had only been in Hollywood a short time and was starstruck by the cast.

Oh fuck those guys with the flamethrowers are absolutely hilarious 😂

0:02 I am going to be talking about The Swarm, with My Cocaine

I actually liked this movie. It's silly, but completely watchable.

I watched it when I was a kid. Back in those days I was easily amused and entertained

I may have missed an earlier comment (several years ago, no less) but anyway - He's a "Major GENERAL "(2 star). Not just a major.