# The Swarm (1978)

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**Runtime**: 116 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Horror
**Directed by**: Irwin Allen
**Written by**: Stirling Silliphant
**Starring**: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson

> *Monsters by the millions - and they're all for real!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Desert highway summer dusk a humming noise. 
Killer bees attack without reason. 
Irwin Allen directs this disaster horror film.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult

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