The Food of the Gods

The Food of the Gods (1976) is Bert I. Gordon's creature-feature horror, and you can watch online on iFILM for a pure shot of B-movie lunacy. On a remote Canadian island, a white goo seeps up through the soil — and everything that tastes it balloons to monstrous size.

Footballer Morgan and his buddies arrive to hunt, then become the hunted. First a swarm of giant wasps. Then a chicken the size of a man. By the finale the island belongs to dog-sized rats, ravenous and closing in. Farm owner Mrs. Skinner knows what started it all and won't say. Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin and Hollywood veteran Ida Lupino lead the cast.

Gordon loosely strip-mined H.G. Wells' novel for a drive-in crowd: split-screen tricks, real rats swarming miniatures, zero shame about any of it. It's the textbook so-bad-it's-glorious ride, aimed squarely at fans of vintage creepy trash and giant-animal mayhem. Stream The Food of the Gods (1976) online on iFILM.