I expected nothing from this film, and I got nothing. The simple fact that it's a made for TV movie is enough to render any excitement about the prospect of killer bees redundant. There is no gore. No violence. No swearing. No nudity. None of those. So what do we have? A tepid thriller, the first half of which includes some deadly-dull character building, interspersed with some bee attacks (in one funny scene the bees are obviously glued in patches to the actors - this special effect hasn't been improved on since Fulci did it with maggots in CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD).
Then it's the dull house-under-siege-by-bees which churns out recycled action from tons of other films. The bees come down the chimney, just like the birds did in, uh, THE BIRDS. The survivors hide in the basement, just like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. The insects mass and attack the family in their home, just like the spiders did in ARACHNOPHOBIA. But at least ARACHNOPHOBIA was funny, and cheesy in a good way.
This is just boring, predictable nonsense. The actors barely act. The only reason to watch this film is for the unintentionally funny scenes when a boy falls through an attic floor, when the father uses an axe like Jack Nicholson in THE SHINING, a hilarious moment when a boy shotguns a number of bee hives and the numerous bee attacks, where people scream and wave their arms around a lot for no reason. Otherwise, don't bee fooled into watching this atrocious rubbish.
Then it's the dull house-under-siege-by-bees which churns out recycled action from tons of other films. The bees come down the chimney, just like the birds did in, uh, THE BIRDS. The survivors hide in the basement, just like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. The insects mass and attack the family in their home, just like the spiders did in ARACHNOPHOBIA. But at least ARACHNOPHOBIA was funny, and cheesy in a good way.
This is just boring, predictable nonsense. The actors barely act. The only reason to watch this film is for the unintentionally funny scenes when a boy falls through an attic floor, when the father uses an axe like Jack Nicholson in THE SHINING, a hilarious moment when a boy shotguns a number of bee hives and the numerous bee attacks, where people scream and wave their arms around a lot for no reason. Otherwise, don't bee fooled into watching this atrocious rubbish.