TERROR OUT OF THE SKY is the 1978 sequel to the TV movie THE SAVAGE BEES. None of the cast members from that film return, but the story follows directly onwards and pulls the old trick of re-staging the climax of the prior movie with a new actress, Tovah Feldshuh, replacing the actress in the original. A new investigator in the form of Efrem Zimbalist Jr. shows up and discovers that some of the bees have survived and spread to some hives at a local research institute; even worse, they've been shipped off around the country, so he goes on a road trip to New Mexico to retrieve them before they get out into the wild. 'Grizzly Adams' himself, Dan Haggerty is also along for the ride and comes between the May to December pairing of Zimbalist and Feldshuh. Truth be told this is a lesser movie all round, more of a sappy drama than an against-the-clock thriller, and Feldshuh's simpering character is a poor inclusion indeed. It re-stages events from the original movie, swapping out a Volkswagen for a school bus in one instance, but it's only moderately convincing, with just a few scenes in which people get coated in a raging swarm of bees. The downbeat climax is a nice touch but overall this one's strictly average.
Review of Terror Out of the Sky
