The Deadly Bees (1966) - Movie Review

Official Score = 3 Devils

Ok, so I have to be honest and say that it has been a while since I have seen a truly great 'B' horror movie, and then went on to review about it for the site... And so I scoured my movie library, netflix, and all the other streamable sites (Amazon and the like,) and there is one that I thought would work well... And well, I found one that was not great, but I will be honest, was pretty good!

That movie being, The Deadly Bees (1966).

The movie poster for: The Deadly Bee (1966).

Written by: Robert Bloch (Psycho), Anthony Marriott (Public Eye) & Directed by: Freddie Francis (Dune). Starring: Suzanna Leigh (Lust For A Vampire), Frank Finlay (Lifeforce), Guy Doleman (On The Beach), Catherine Finn (Torture Garden) & Tim Barrett (The Mummy's Shroud.)

"Well, he didn't want to destroy my bees. He wanted to destroy me!"

- H.W. Manfred (A quote from: The Deadly Bees (1966).)

The Deadly Bees tells the story of how an exhausted lead singer for a British pop band, by the name of, 'Vicki Robbins' (Suzanna Leigh) decides after fainting while in the middle of a set, to take some time off and spend it in the country with some friends of her Doctor...

Vicki Robbins is about to embark on an adventure that she will never forget... And to think... She went in for a rest!

Now at first everything seems to be all good at the farm... I mean the wife is a little neurotic, and the husband has a temper, but they seem like nice enough folks... And she truly does seem to be getting better all of the time... That is until she met H.W. Manfred (Frank Finaly) of course!

You see, both Finlay and the husband of the family she is staying with are both in to, 'Bee Farming'... But one of them has a deadly secret about there, 'killer bees', and in this movie, the bees maybe the killer... But you will never guess who the murderer is!

I know... I know, I make this sound like a, 'mystery', but in all truth, this movie truly is a fun British, B, 'horror' movie, and despite the fact that the first 10 or 15 minutes are kind of useless, the rest of the movie explodes, and the deeper in to it you get, the better it is!