Killer bees movie?

Posted by SamHandwich0@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 54 comments

Buncha kids stuck on a school bus on a dirt road- theres a shot of the bus from the outside, bees are gonna kill them....etc.

Was this a made for tv movie? Was this a fever dream i had?

I cant find it, does anyone know what im talking about? I feel like it was early to mid 80s and i saw it in the middle of the afternoon on summer break....but i coild just be making this all up.

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texasdiver@reddit

I just mentioned the VW beetle scene to some friends recently. I snuck out of bed and watched this scene while hiding behind my parents in the living room. They had no idea I was there, and I had nightmares for a while. Still think of it often.

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mediawoman@reddit

This was real!

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Poultrygeist74@reddit

The Swarm came out in theaters in 1978 and had a stacked cast. It took place mostly in Houston.

The Savage Bees was the made for TV one with the red VW Beetle in the New Orleans Superdome.

Both of them scared me, I’m still not a fan of bees / wasps/ hornets.

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Specialist-Rock-5034@reddit

Stacked cast, indeed.

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2PlasticLobsters@reddit

Yeah, the Superdome was the first enclosed stadium & very topical. The storylime had to be very convoluted to work it in.

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pagette44@reddit

The Astrodome in Houston was the first. It opened in 1965

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kahllerdady@reddit

Oh man The Savage Bees horrified me ad a kid

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sipperphoto@reddit

Was the Savage Bees where they turned on the AC in the stadium and froze the bees out?
I vaguely remember it!

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pmoity@reddit

The Swarm (1978) is a delightfully craptastic cheesy B-movie that is charming in its own way, despite having an incredibly idiotic plot. It's one of those movies I put on every few months and to some degree actually enjoy.

Paul

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Lampwick@reddit

So many mind-bogglingly bad, cheesy as heck disaster movies in the 70s! In the 90s when i worked at a video rental place we'd pick one of those terrible movies and then afterwards discuss what the stupidest thing about them was. I remember Towering Inferno (1974) the consensus was "Charlton Heston can't get into the stairwell because somebody somehow left a wheelbarrow full of wet concrete sitting on the inside landing and it tipped over, blocking the door from opening with a pile of concrete".

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pmoity@reddit

Towering inferno another great movie....

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whirlydad@reddit

The Swarm (1978) maybe? I loved that movie.

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Tuffmuff34@reddit

I totally remember seeing this movie. As for the name of it...

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HarveyMushman72@reddit

I remember that scene.

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Oldebookworm@reddit

Yes. It gave me nightmares. Apparently you can’t avoid bees by hiding under the bed

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mobfather@reddit

Like many Gen-X, I had a futon.

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Workamania@reddit

It's not Invasion of the Bee Girls.

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conejon@reddit

The bus scene was from Terror Out of the Sky, the sequel to The Savage Bees, where they lured the bees into the Superdome to freeze them.

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SamHandwich0@reddit (OP)

Thank you i'll look it up!

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rosmaniac@reddit

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080007/

Another commenter gave a link to a DVD they sell of it.

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NoGood2154@reddit

that's the one I remember...

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ApplicationUpper9229@reddit

The Swarm

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BuggeroffIm50@reddit

If it trapping the bees in a stadium is in the plot line, this is it

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SparksWood71@reddit

Oh yes I remember this . . . . It was the ants one that really creeped me out as a kid though.

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Poultrygeist74@reddit

Empire of the Ants

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bird9066@reddit

"THEM!!!" Oh wait, that was one of the giant insects movies from the fifties they were still playing on TV.

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CynfullyDelicious@reddit

Panic at Lakewood Manor - creeped me TF out. I do remember Suzanne Somers being in it and at one point having ants crawl all over her face 😬 😂

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champs-de-fraises@reddit

Phase IV, I think

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TeaMugPatina@reddit

That movie was too deep for me the first time I saw it.

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captainfishhooks@reddit

Fuck that movie!!!! Shortly after seeing i found out im highly Alergic to bees!!!!

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SamHandwich0@reddit (OP)

I am too- i think thats why it stuck with me

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Ok-Mention6768@reddit

I don' t know, but it sounds pretty awesome!

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LisaEWP@reddit

I have been scared of bees ever since! 🤣

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fungusamongus8@reddit

me too. i was 7 and i waited in the lobby. my parents dgaf

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moneyman74@reddit

I think there is more than one Killer Bees movie...it was shown in the afternoon in my area yearly in the 80s

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autochthonous@reddit

The ere like five or six. Way more than there should’ve been.

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V1per73@reddit

It was an abc movie of the week, made for TV... Usually they aired on Saturday afternoons.

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AZPeakBagger@reddit

Don’t remember the movie but I lived it. We have Killer Bees here in Arizona and I survived an attack about a dozen years ago. Little SOB’s chased me for over a half mile and I’m not a slow runner. Ended up with about 30 stings all over by head and neck.

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RunAwayBeerTruk@reddit

The kids shooting the nest with the shotgun, oh yes I remember still laugh about that scene once in awhile still

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No_Subject_343@reddit

I remember it on TV. Still scared….

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Starbbhp@reddit

I vaguely remember the end of a movie on tv with people trapped in a bee pop/ slug bug/ VW beetle on a football field.

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worstpartyever@reddit

In the Astrodome! And they turned the air conditioning down to make the bees sleep.

Hilarious because it was always hot in the Dome

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chimpyjnuts@reddit

I remember 2 things from that movie: The effected hallucinating giant bees, and the a/c in the astrodome at the end.

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East_Escape254@reddit

There only 2 movies I can think of from that time: The Swarm and Terror out of the Sky(?).

Both were bee movies.

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