On March 10, 1972 the science fiction cult classic “Frogs” was released in movie theaters. Directed by George McCowan and from a screenplay by Robert Hutchison and Robert Blees,
Frogs tells the story of an upper class U.S. Southern family who are victimized by several different animal species. Nature may be justified in exacting revenge on this family because of its patriarch's abuse of the local ecology. It stars Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke, Judy Pace, Lynn Borden, Mae Mercer and David Gilliam.
The film was shot 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.
Many of the 500 Florida frogs and 100 giant South American toads purchased for use in the film escaped during production. Because the film's poster art depicts a human hand hanging out of a huge frog's mouth, viewers often assume the film is about giant man-eating frogs, rather than swamp wildlife on the rampage.
In a review for "Andy Warhol's Interview", writer Fran Lebowitz called this movie "the best bad movie I have ever seen in my life."
Frogs tells the story of an upper class U.S. Southern family who are victimized by several different animal species. Nature may be justified in exacting revenge on this family because of its patriarch's abuse of the local ecology. It stars Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke, Judy Pace, Lynn Borden, Mae Mercer and David Gilliam.
The film was shot 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.
Many of the 500 Florida frogs and 100 giant South American toads purchased for use in the film escaped during production. Because the film's poster art depicts a human hand hanging out of a huge frog's mouth, viewers often assume the film is about giant man-eating frogs, rather than swamp wildlife on the rampage.
In a review for "Andy Warhol's Interview", writer Fran Lebowitz called this movie "the best bad movie I have ever seen in my life."
