imdaveysmom In 1976 my parents took us kids to see this movie not realizing what we were about to see. I was only six years old and a particular scene is seared into my memory. There was a woman reaching into a cupboard and when she withdrew her hand she had a large cockroach on her arm. Next thing I know my mom puts her hand over my eyes and tells my dad to drive. Forty years later it's still with me.Just recently I was flipping through the channels and low and behold what do I see listed? You guessed it, FOOD OF THE GODS! I had to see what I missed. It's funny how time and age can change your perception. At six I was terrified of big bugs. At forty-six I found the whole thing laughable. I suppose that in 1976 the special effects were decent enough, in this day and age watching a herd of gigantic rats was hilarious. My teenage son and husband couldn't believe that this movie scared me.So if you're looking for a good fright, you should give this movie a pass. However, if all you're looking for is a good time and not wanting to take anything seriously this is the movie for you.

slick_moon I am glad I've seen this movie in the sense that survivors of disaster are often grateful for the life experience, but I felt the need to warn others who may be considering it.I won't attack the acting as a movie this low budget often has to pull winos off the street, and I do make due allowance for the effects budget too, though there are some effects which are just inexcusable in a movie intended for release.The famously bad giant chicken scene I'll gloss over, not just because it's famous but because the rest is much, much worse.The most unforgivable effect is surely the "giant wasps" which are motionless, brown silhouettes of some sort of crushed insect, possibly a butterfly or moth, certainly not a wasp of any kind. Probably the same brightly coloured lepidoptera to which our hero points, as it perches on a jar of Food Of The Gods, and proclaims "wasps sure seem to love it" To be fair the giant rats are quite realistic, but they're actually too realistic in that they haven't been given exaggeratedly evil features, or even shot from an angle that makes them seem sinister as in The Unknown. The result is that they're just gosh darn cute, like being attacked by giant hamsters or gerbils. So when the head of one comes smashing through a door, the audience isn't inspired to jump, just to go "aaaw, hello!".There's one point where they blow up a dam in an effort to drown the giant rats, even though real rats can swim because "giant rats with that weight won't be able to" this is true but it also unnecessarily raises the point that they wouldn't be able to move at all, and would probably break off their own feet. But what is far worse is that the "dam" they decide to blow up is in fact just a wall, hastily built across a small track which is not low enough to be even a very small river bed. And the wall is made of wooden planks. Yes wooden planks. Held together with nails. As a dam. To hold back water.But the worst thing about this movie by far is the script. Expository dialogue is sadly common enough these days, but this writer attempts expository dialogue, without even actually explaining anything! Our hero: "How did you come to feed it to the livestock?" Farmer's Wife: "well when we realised it wasn't oil, there weren't nothing for it but to feed it to the animals" Audience: "WTF? so anything that isn't oil gets fed to the livestock on your farm? Pebbles? Children? Discos?" And then there's the inevitable attempt to come up with a group plan. Coward:"we can't stay here, I'm leaving, come with me" Girl "but we'll die and get eaten!" Coward: "have you got a better plan?" Girl "I guess not" Audience: "so you're going along with the plan of dying and getting eaten because you haven't got a better plan?" I love low budget cheese, but seriously take my advice and just don't.

FlashCallahan Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps.Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken.After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size.The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilising to do battle with the human intruders....If you want to see a film with a man fighting a giant rubber chicken, look no further.Yes, the film is trite, it has so many problems that you just have to laugh at all the bizarreness of the finished product.Killer wasps that look like they are ghosts, rats superimposed to look like they are huge, Mrs skinner saying 'oh my god' every five minutes, and Morgans mullet.The script is awful, the narration bad, and the acting is what can be expected, when the most recognisable people in this, are the bloke from American Ninja 3, and the one who played 'Man At Arms' in Masters of the Universe.It tries to be serious, but fails miserably, but is good for a once only, laugh in.And to threaten us with a sequel featuring huge cows deserves a round of applause.Crazy stuff, but so worth watching.

Azlan Lewis I give this movie a 7 out of 10 because it is fun to watch. I agree it is a "B" movie thriller, but then so many of the even classic horror movies are "B" thrillers.While this film uses extensive use of rats as the main "Giantized" villain it is still fun to watch.I am not familiar with Bert I. Gordon's older films but this is better then the Empire of the Ants (1977) which was released one year after this film. The acting is better in this film then E.O.T.A. and they didn't even have or need Joan Collins like E.O.T.A. did and even she wasn't needed there.I first saw this movie in a Drive in theater, this was about 4 years after it was released as it was the second feature after Battle Beyond the Stars. This was the best way to see films of this type back then as stadium seating theaters hadn't been created yet. It was fun to watch. Looking back on it now seeing it from an "adult perspective" I was almost 11yo at the time. It's hokey, but I can still enjoy the fun of the film.