The greatest movie ever!

Let's be realistic.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

I should give this move a "10" simply based on the fact that I remembered watching it when it first came out at the age of 7. This was one of those movies that my mom watched after my brother and I "Went to bed". Little did she know we would often sneak out of bed and peer into the living room where we could clearly see the television. At the point that this movie first showed it's ENORMOUS SIZED animals we were glued to the screen and so enthralled that we couldn't look away. It was only in our dreams that the horrifying scene of the gigantic rats haunted us both again and again. Over the years the nightmares came less and less but the title never left my head...when I just happened to come across this movie that has been tucked away in my mind since I was a little girl I just had to tell you what kind of impact it had on a little 7 year old girls and her 5 year old baby brother. Although the movie is a far stretch from realistic by today's standards back then it was terrifying! Way to go Food of the Gods!!

Bert I. Gordon, veteran director of many such "giant" films of the 1950's returns to the genre with this loose adaptation of the H.G. Wells story, though this focuses on the consequences of the titular food, which has inexplicably oozed from the ground of a remote Canadian island, where an unfortunate group of people(including Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Belinda Balaski, Ida Lupino, and John McLiam) find themselves besieged by giant worms, wasps, and especially rats, who ate the food and now are after everyone... Idiotic film has variable F/X, but killed by plot holes, dumb decision making, and an overall air of ugliness and brutality. Utterly pointless and contrived as well, though a cult favorite of some. Consumers best beware...

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.

I was quite shocked after watching this movie, to be honest. In a good and bad way, mind you.First, let me tell you the story of Food of the Gods in a nutshell. On an island, a strange goo (I guess) mixed with animal food changes some of the animals into giant monsters. Wasps, chickens, worms and especially the rats turn out to be a real menace. When several people get involved and end up being locked inside a farm, it all comes down to a struggle to survive...Why was I shocked, you may ask? For one thing, there is a lot more gore or at least nasty scenes then I thought there would be in this film. I guess I either underestimated the movie or classified it as the wrong type from the beginning.People get attacked by a lot of critters, but the main enemies are the rats though. People get ripped to shreds. Even though you do not see everything, it still was rather unpleasant to look at sometimes. By today standards, it would probably be nothing to the average gore-hound, but back then I'm sure it would be very scary or even gruesome.But the thing that got me most is the violence the other way; towards the rats. They get shot, punched, chopped and even drown in the end. In particular the final scene was actually very sad. I really hope the film makers didn't use real rats for this footage. Me questioning about this topic does prove that the guys in the visual effect department did a fairly good job.In overall, this is a pretty good movie for it's time. Go check it out if you like movies about (giant) animals attacking people.7 out of 10 stars.