Few horror movies scream summer quite like FROGS (1972). Released in the spring of 1972, the film was poised midway between Alfred Hitchcock’s proto-revenge-of-nature thriller THE BIRDS (1963) and JAWS (1975) but took its direct inspiration from WILLARD (1971), in which rats wrecked havoc at the behest of a societal malcontent. WILLARD beget its own [...]
