Frogs

Frogs (1972)

TODAY - THE POND... TOMORROW - THE WORLD!

Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.

Date of release
1972-03-10
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (167)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Horror
Director
George McCowan

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Florida

Frogs is a 1972 American natural horror film directed by George McCowan. The film falls into the "eco-horror" category, telling the story of a wildlife photographer who meets an upper-class U.S. Southern family who are victimized by several different animal species, including snakes, birds, leeches, lizards, and butterflies. The movie suggests nature may be justified in exacting revenge on this family because of its patriarch's abuse of the local ecology. The film was theatrically released on March 23, 1972.

Production

Frogs marked the feature film directorial debut of George McCowan, a director of television episodes. It was co-produced by George Edwards at American International Pictures and Peter Thomas at Peter Thomas Productions. Barry Trivers was reported to have signed to write a screenplay based on a story written by Robert Hutchison. Hutchison and Robert Blees are credited for writing the screenplay in the final film.

Principal photography began on November 1, 1971 and wrapped on December 8, 1971. The film was shot by Mario Tosi in Walton County, Florida, on the Emerald Coast in and around Wesley House, an old Southern mansion located in Eden Gardens State Park in the town of Point Washington, situated on Tucker Bayou off Choctawhatchee Bay.

The animals used for the film included 500 Florida frogs, 100 cane toads, scorpions, tarantulas, Argentine black and white tegus, geckos, iguanas, Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes, alligators, Florida cottonmouths, crabs, and alligator snapping turtles. In pre-release prints and the trailer, Iris Martindale (Holly Irving) originally died by being pulled into quicksand by a giant butterfly, rather than by snakebite.

The makeup effects were done by Jean Austin and Thomas R. Burman.

Actors and actresses cast for the film included Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke, Lynn Borden, Dale Willingham, Hal Hodges, Judy Pace, Mae Mercer, David Gilliam, Nicholas Cortland, George Skaff, Hollis Irving, Lance Taylor Sr., Carolyn Fitzsimmons, and Robert Sanders.

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