List of films featuring insects

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This is a list of films which prominently feature insects, either as anthropomorphic protagonists, [1] [2] antagonists or mutations such as in horror films, [3] [4] or as subjects in a documentary capacity. [5]

Contents

Fictional narrative films

Animated

Animated films with anthropomorphized insects include: [6]

Non-animated

Both

Horror films featuring insects

This section is an excerpt from List of natural horror films § Insects.[ edit ]

Ants

Honey bees

Cockroaches

  • Creepshow (1982, killer cockroaches) [17]
  • Mimic (1997, evolved human-sized genetically engineered cockroaches) [18]

Locusts

Wasps

Documentaries

This section includes both educational and scientific films about insects, [21] [22] [23] [24] as well as notable documentary television programs about insects. [25]

Films

The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) is a quasi-documentary film about the struggle between man and insects. [26] [27] Andrea Shaw called it a faux documentary, [28] although it won the 1971 Academy Award for the best documentary. [29]

Television and video

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Berenbaum, May R. & Levkosky, Richard J. (2003). "Movies, Insects in". In Resh, Vincent H. & Cardé, Ring T. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Insects. Amsterdam: Academic Press. pp. 756–762. ISBN   978-0-08-054605-6.
  2. ↑ Armstrong, Richard B.; Armstrong, Mary Willems, eds. (2010). "Insects". Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series (reprint of second edition (2001) ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p.  107. ISBN   978-1-4766-1230-0.
  3. ↑ Hickman, Matt (15 May 2014). "Bugging out: 12 creepy-crawly movies that will have you reaching for the Raid". Mother Nature Network. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014.
  4. ↑ Glassy, Mark C. (2001). The Biology of Science Fiction Cinema . Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p.  211. ISBN   978-0-7864-0998-3.
  5. ↑ Agriculture Research Service (1954). Motion Picture Films about Insects. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture. OCLC   71024544.
  6. ↑ Berenbaum & Levkosky 2003 , pp. 757–758
  7. 1 2 Puckett, Terek (27 October 2013). "Revolt of Nature Horror Films: The Must-Sees". PopOptiq. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  8. ↑ Gambin, Lee (8 October 2012). Massacred by Mother Nature: Exploring the Natural Horror Film. Midnight Marquee Press, Inc. ISBN   978-1936168309.
  9. ↑ "Empire of the Ants (1977)". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  10. ↑ "It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977)". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 15 November 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  11. ↑ "The Deadly Bees (1967)". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  12. ↑ "Killer Bees (1974)". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 8 October 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  13. ↑ "The Savage Bees (1976)". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 29 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  14. ↑ "The Bees (1978)". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  15. ↑ Hickman, Matt (28 October 2014). "12 horror films that reveal Mother Nature's evil side". Mother Nature Network. Archived from the original on 27 March 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  16. ↑ "Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare (1995)". AllMovie . Archived from the original on 11 June 2024. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  17. ↑ "Creepshow (1982)". Allmovie . Archived from the original on 16 May 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  18. ↑ "Mimic (1997)". AllMovie . Archived from the original on 19 April 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  19. ↑ "Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)". AllMovie . Archived from the original on 11 June 2024. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  20. ↑ "Stung (2015)". AllMovie . Archived from the original on 12 November 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  21. 1 2 Bouse, Derek (2011). Wildlife Films. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 118–119. ISBN   978-0-8122-0584-8.
  22. ↑ Agriculture Research Service (1954). Motion Picture Films about Insects. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture. OCLC   71024544.
  23. ↑ Berenbaum, May R. & Levkosky, Richard J. (2003). "Movies, Insects in". In Resh, Vincent H. & Cardé, Ring T. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Insects. Amsterdam: Academic Press. pp. 756–762. ISBN   978-0-08-054605-6.
  24. ↑ Armstrong, Richard B.; Armstrong, Mary Willems, eds. (2010). "Insects". Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series (reprint of second edition (2001) ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 107]. ISBN   978-1-4766-1230-0.
  25. ↑ Acorn, John H. & Sperling, Felix A. H. (2003). "Teaching Resources: Television and Video". In Resh, Vincent H. & Cardé, Ring T. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Insects. Amsterdam: Academic Press. pp. 989–990. ISBN   978-0-08-054605-6.
  26. ↑ Tompkins, Dave (27 February 2012). "Swarming the Field: Bugs, Nazis, and The Hellstrom Chronicle". Grantland. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  27. ↑ Chapman, James & Cull, Nicholas J. (2013). Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema. London: I.B.Tauris. pp. 141–143. ISBN   978-1-78076-410-8.
  28. ↑ Shaw, Andrea (1996). "The Hellstrom Chronicle". Seen That, Now What?: The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Video You Really Want to Watch. New York: Simon and Schuster. p.  271. ISBN   978-0-684-80011-0.
  29. ↑ Murphy, Bernice M. (2013). "Chapter 5. 'Why Wouldn't the Wilderness Fight Us?' American Eco-Horro and the Apocalypse". The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness. Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 217–218. ISBN   978-1-137-35373-3.
  30. ↑ Kaye, Evelyn (1979). The ACT Guide to Children's Television: Or how to Treat TV with T.L.C. (second ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press. p.  70. ISBN   978-0-8070-2366-2.
  31. ↑ "Weevils". PBS.
  32. ↑ "Butterfly Wings". PBS.
  33. ↑ Shardlow, Matt (2013). "The institutionalization of insect welfare: the cultural aspects of establishing a new organization dedicated to concerving invertebrates". In Lemein, Raynald Harvey (ed.). The Management of Insects in Recreation and Tourism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p.  285. ISBN   978-1-107-01288-2.
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