Black Swarm

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Black Swarm
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Written byTodd Samovitz
Ethlie Ann Vare
Directed by David Winning
Starring Sebastien Roberts
Sarah Allen
Robert Englund
Rebecca Windheim
Theme music composerMario Sévigny
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersIrene Litinsky
Ric Nish
CinematographyDaniel Vincelette
EditorSimon Webb
Running time90 minutes
Production companies RHI Entertainment
Muse Entertainment
Original release
Release7 December 2007 (2007-12-07)

Black Swarm is a 2007 Canadian suspense film directed by David Winning. Actor Robert Englund plays a mysterious beekeeper who has a secret to hide in the small town of Black Stone. [1] It is the 9th film of the Maneater Series .

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Plot

A widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her nine-year-old daughter Kelsey Kozik. There, she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a homeless man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's blind friend Beverly Rowe. Devin Hall and the entomologist Katherine Randell are summoned to help with the investigation. Devin is Jane's brother-in-law and former boyfriend, and Jane still has a crush on him. Meanwhile, Kelsey befriends the scientist Eli Giles, who has developed genetically modified wasps for the army as a weapon, and now he is trying to revert the process. When the wasps attack Black Stone, Jane, Devin and Eli team-up to attempt to destroy the swarm.

Cast

Production

The movie was filmed in Montreal and surrounding small towns in July and August 2007.[ citation needed ] It is the 9th film of the Maneater Series .

Release

It was released on DVD by Genius Entertainment on February 3, 2009. [2]

Reception

Scott Foy of DreadCentral rated it 3.5/5 and called it "an above average effort from the Sci-Fi Channel that never insults your intelligence even though it does have its fair share of logic gaps." [3] Laura Burrows of IGN rated it 4/10 and called it "an awful film" with "terrible CGI". [4] Patrick Bromley of DVD Verdict describes it as having "terrible CGI effects" and "cheesy plotting and non-existent acting". [5] Justin Felix of DVD Talk called it a "celluloid atrocity", though he stated that it has a "certain Ed Wood B-movie charm to it.". [6]

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