Review #346: Frogs (1972)
October 2025 Holiday Horror Review #19 - Frogs (1972) Watch it here on YouTube! I remember watching this film back in like 2006, after my wife and I started our weekly Bad Horror Movie Night. This was one of those movies that we'd seen sitting on the shelf at the local Blockbuster, and I thought, "A movie about frogs? That might be fun!" Spoilers: it wasn't. Frogs really has basically nothing to do with frogs (and there certainly is never a point where a person gets eaten by a giant frog, as seen in the poster). In Frogs, Sam Elliott plays Pickett Smith, a photojournalist who is out in a canoe taking photos of the local wildlife when a couple bumbling rich socialites nearly kill him with their speedboat. To apologize, they bring Smith back to their family's private island, where their maids and butlers are getting ready for the elderly patriarch's birthday celebration the next day (July 4th). The patriarch, Jason Crockett, is in a bad mood because he's bee...