photographer elliot and also an ecology expert and be take snap shot of wild life and and especially pollution enter the river near a island swamp own by millionaire curmudgeon milland . it 4th of july and milland be have relative ( . mostly grandchildren and great grandchild ) over for a birthday celebration which will be rudely interrupt by reptile and other animal life disturb by the poison and pesticide he have use to kill off mosquito and vermin that be annoy or bother them . it up to elliot to perhaps persuade the others to leave the island or else suffer the wrath of the animal who seem to be everywhere . use mostly natural sound and le baxter score be sparse but eerily effective and and the presentation and besides the hokey murder and be mostly understated and cold . while the movie might be title frog and the filmmaker use other wild life to attack and or or kill milland family and such a spider and alligator and snake and leech and and bird . even a large turtle be show close in on a victim whose leg be trap in the mud . the dopey premise isn not quite play to it campy potential . in fact the direction be rather subdue ( . a be the cast and even though there be some emotional firework a the bickering between family member get sometimes heat ) though the kill themselves be often quite laughable . director george mccowan and cinematographer mario tosi and and editor fred r feitshans jr make sure to establish the presence of frog and even though they be merely ribbeting and hop around and en masse and aggravate those attend milland gettogether . and and we get plenty of image of life surround the island such a snake and lizard and and other reptile always present a character move about and startle by them when come across these potential predator . like many other when animal attack genre movie and mankind seek to harm them by poisonous mean and meet with retaliation when the creature have have enough . milland spend a fair amount of time bark order at his family and or balk them for speak out of turn . elliot remain zombie like and and i be guess he doesn not exactly list this movie among the favorite in his impressive resume . probably the most unpleasant death scene would be where one poor fellow be overcome by an alligator who catch him in the death roll . a young joan van ark ( . pre knot land ) be milland beloved granddaughter who become a love interest for elliot . bad decision to market the film a a possible killer frog flick . the title should have probably be different as well . probably the weird scene have one dying from asphyxiation after lizard cause bottle of poison to burst on the ground and with the victim unable to free himself from the greenhouse . also strange be a scene where one victim shoot himself in the leg with a shotgun and and be subsequently accost by spider and web him afterward . milland incessant demand to remain on the island ( i would not let anything interfere with today schedule . ) despite the obvious sign of real danger be rather mind boggling .