The Food of the Gods (1976) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/100001417/the-food-of-the-gods
- uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
- dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9o8e1w
- archive: https://archive.org/details/bert-i-gordon-complete-collection/1976.+The+Food+of+the+Gods.mp4
- someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time.
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-food-of-the-gods
... the film was loosely based on a portion of the 1904 H. G. Wells novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth. The film reduced Wells' tale to a "nature revenge" plot, common in science fiction films of the time.
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The movie was AIP's most successful release of the year, causing them to make a series of films based on H. G. Wells novels.[7]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one star out of four.[8] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "a stunningly ridiculous mixture of science-fiction and horror-film clichés."[9] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film half of one star out of four and wrote, "The heavy television ad campaign promises six-foot roosters and panther-sized rats. What it should promise, if truth-in-labeling applied to film ads, is rotten special effects and a laughable script."[10] Arthur D. Murphy of Variety wrote, "Too much emphasis by Gordon on his good special visual effects combines with too little attention to his writing chores ... Every player has done better before; this script is atrocious."[11] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "the entire picture is a joke—unintentionally."[12] Tom Milne of The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "A truly appalling piece of s-f horror in which the cretinous dialogue, hopefully illuminating the follies of human greed and tampering with nature, poses more of a hazard to the cast than the crudely animated giant wasps or the monster rat and cockerel heads stiffly manipulated from the wings."[13]
