The Deadly Bees

The Deadly Bees, Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting the 1960s equivalent of a music video, and her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with colleague and beekeeper Ralph Hargrove. Vicki finds the Hargroves’ bitter marital strife oddly relaxing. But when a mysterious swarm of specially-bred attack bees starts killing island residents, Vicki fights for her survival, setting fire to nearly half the structures on the island in her escape

STARS: Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman

64 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 1966 | Color

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Packs a better sting than you would think.

Killer bees don’t always make for the best ‘monsters’ in the horror genre, but this British thriller is an exception.
Pop singer vacations on an island with a local bee keeper, while a mysterious swarm of bees has caused the death of a woman.
The Deadly Bees isn’t as dull a film as some make it out to be. It has some nice high-powered shock sequences even though the bee FX aren’t always convincing. The makeup FX aren’t bad, namely the great work on an ill-fated Catherine Finn. The story is a decent mystery, based upon H.W. Herd’s novel A Taste for Honey. The direction of Freddie Francis is pretty good, the sets are well constructed and the art direction is excellent. There’s also a great dramatic music score to boot.
The cast is quite good. Suzanna Leigh is a decent heroine, but it’s really leading actors Guy Doleman and Frank Finlay that turn in the best performances as some feuding, menacing bee keepers.
All around not bad. Certainly the best killer bee movie around and an underrated work.

Not for the blood thirsty

This is an intellectual version of a killer bee movie. Instead of focusing on bee sting makeup and civilization-ending massive explosions, this film focuses on plot and mystery. Yes, there is a bit of bee sting make up and a couple of small fires, but mystery rules this film. In my opinion, it is the best of all the bee movies.