Monster-of-the-Week: …our honoree this week is the man-eating frog featured in the poster art for 1972’s Frogs…
…as well as on the cover of Famous Monsters of Filmland #91…
Elliot played the hunky hero, with the very Sam-Elliot-ish
name of “Pickett Smith,” in this silly but nonetheless sort of creepy film. It’s
about a murder spree by various crawly creatures against a family of rich Florida cretins led by
obtuse patriarch Ray Milland. Even though, as in Aristophanes, they’re the
title characters, the amphibians in question (most them actually played by
burly cane toads) just aren’t very threatening—all they really seem able to do
is stare reproachfully at the humans while spiders, snakes, alligators and the
like do the actual killing.
I remember feeling disappointed, as a kid, when I realized
that the frog from the ad, capable of swallowing a human whole, wasn’t in the
film—not, that is, until the very end of the end credits, when he appears in
cartoon form:
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