Actually Irwin Allen's The Swarm is not actually a disaster film, although many people may suggest that it is a disaster of a film. Irwin Allen was responsible however of bringing in some of the greatest actual disaster flicks into our generations. We had back in 1970 Airport, in 1972 there was The Poseidon Adventure and in 1974 Earthquake. Now in 1978, he released The Swarm, a major budget motion picture about a swarm of killer bees spreading and killing people in the United States. The plot sounds good, and we do have a gigantic list of famous actors with Michael Caine leading the way with Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant, Henry Fonda, Jose Ferrer, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens, Bradford Dillman and Cameron Mitchell. The Swarm fails to deliver good suspense and the acting is occasionally bad, however it offers a good time since that is what Irwin Allen was usually good at doing to an audience. I must say that The Swarm may not be as good as The Poseidon Adventure or Earthquake, but much better than Irwin Allen's 1980 volcano disaster flick When Time Ran Out.
