Selfish pitfalls of her own family, projecting an innocence and sweetness thatĮarns her a place as one of the film’s survivors. Other men in his family, and pathetically longing for the glory days of his Irving’s husband, David Gillam, encourages his own son to engage inĪ fist fight Milland’s grandson, Adam Roarke, is the most arrogant and aggressiveĬharacter in the film, driving his speedboat while drunk, picking fights with Slightly diminished because of costly environmental regulations forced on theirįactories. Milland’s daughter, Holly Irving, complains that the family fortune has been His relatives are similarly reptilian in their disregard for ethics Has reacted by increasing the use of poison until all the local wildlife hasīeen affected. To control the blooming frog population on his small private island, Milland Milland's family of the “ugly rich” seem to take pride in their roles as exploiters and destroyers of both people and the environment. The humans in “Frogs” make it easy to root for the animals. That open-eyed death mask that his face becomes is probably the first image of a dead person that I ever saw in a horror movie, and it remains one of the most gruesome. How horrible to end your life paralyzed by snake venom, lying there with them while they bite you and slither over you possessively. The "bad" cuts, however, lend a hallucinatory quality to the scene, and suggest something even more horrifying: although we saw him lying face down in a wet marsh and covered by reptiles, it seems as if he was still barely alive, languishing from the snake venom, and Smith arrived just in time to see the moment of his death. In a series of cuts that most likely represent bad continuity, his eyes go from tightly shut to a hideous, wide-open death stare. Then Smith rolls him over to face the camera, and we get a look at his face, horribly bloated and off-color. The actor playing the victim is moving ever so slightly, although we're not sure if he's breathing or if the snakes slithering around his neck are making it move. There is a moment when Smith finds one of Crockett's employees dead, lying face-down in a marsh in an unnatural position, with snakes crawling over him. There's a disjointed feel to "Frogs" that the film's low budget and glaring continuity errors help to emphasize. To me, this is one of the most horrifying deaths in horror movie history, even if it's also one of the most stupid-check out the stand-in mannequin arm that the rattler really bites! We see the moment of her death, and her corpse turns color to a deathly oxygen-deprived bluish hue right before our eyes. Finally, completely demoralized, terrified, and drenched in silt and bloodied by the leeches, she is bitten by a rattler and very quickly dies. Her clothing becomes filthy, and in the most excruciating moment, she trips and falls into a marshy pit of filthy water and emerges covered in leeches. Her hairstyle falls, ratted out by the vegetation she crawls through, making her look like a madwoman. Rather, what's unsettling is how she gradually disintegrates, her fear causing her to lapse into animalistic appearance and behavior. The horror is not expected to come from the fact that a group of unintelligent animals could somehow work in unison to murder a human being. The director isn't concerned with what is killing her, or how realistic her motivations are for wandering into the swamp alone with a butterfly net. Especially effective is the protracted stalking of Iris, a daffy lady who chases after a butterfly into the marshes, then gets cornered by a bunch of snakes and lizards.
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