Well, I’ll say this much for a horror movie called “Frogs”, there certainly were a LOT of them present.
Pickett Smith is a freelance photographer commissioned to take pictures of a local lake thought to be under threat of contaminate waste. While taking pictures of the lake and said “waste” his boat is capsized by a drunken idiot, Clint. Clint apologizes and then takes Pickett back to the family homestead to dry off and have a drink. Upon arriving there Picket meets the patriarch of the family, Jason Crockett. The Crockett family is there to celebrate Jason’s birthday that just happens to fall on the fourth of July. As preparations for the festivities begin, the family starts dying one by one in mysterious ways, usually involving nature. What Pickett and the survivors find out, is that nature itself, is out to get the family.
Frogs is considered an “eco-horror” movie. Basically, it’s man versus nature in it’s purest and most deadly form. While the title of the movie is “Frogs” and one would be lead to believe the titular Frogs do the killing, this isn’t entirely true. Thing of the frogs as more of a commander. It makes a lot of noise, but never really does anything directly. On the flip side of that, the other animals (mostly reptiles) kill people in all manner of ways. Frogs really only shows one thing, that yes, nature is out to kill us.
It’s not a scary movie, and has really the thinnest of threads holding the movie together. It’s noteable for really only two things. Frogs stars a younger (probably late 30s) Sam Elliott. However, I watched at least thirty to forty minutes of the movie before I realized who he was because he didn’t have that signature mustache. Secondly, there is an interracial couple in the movie. While that isn’t really a big deal now, back in 1972 this was probably a really big deal. Good for them for writing/casting that way.
Frogs is the kind of movie that you can turn on and just have playing in the background. It doesn’t really require full or even partial attention. However, even in that sense, it’s still not a great movie.
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