Frogs
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I remember watching this with my cousin at 3:00 in the morning many years ago, and we just left our heads off. The conceit of this movie is that nature has had enough and is going to start to murder everyone. They start on an island where there is a southern family and the southern family are having a birthday weekend that happens to coincide with the 4th of July. A freelance photographer who works for some kind of ecological magazine gets involved with a boating accident with one of them, and they invite him to stay for lunch. There are shots of scary looking frogs and snakes and geckos and alligators and some other kinds of lizards. Slowly, very slowly, the plot unfolds. There is lots of tension in the family between the older patriarch and the younger members of the family for various reasons. This is a family that has African American servants, so I think there is some kind of metaphor that's being grasped at here. Every single member of the family and servants are probably mur...