The Food of the Gods (film)

H.G. Wells' The Food of the Gods
Theatrical release poster by Drew Struzan
Directed byBert I. Gordon
Written byBert I. Gordon
Produced bySamuel Z. Arkoff
Bert I. Gordon
StarringMarjoe Gortner
Pamela Franklin
Ralph Meeker
Jon Cypher
Ida Lupino
CinematographyReginald H. Morris
Edited byCorky Ehlers
Music byElliot Kaplan
Distributed byAmerican International Pictures
Release date
  • June 18, 1976 (1976-06-18)
Running time
88 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Canada
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1 million[1][2]

H.G. Wells' The Food of the Gods, also billed as just The Food of the Gods, is a 1976 American-Canadian science fiction thriller film released by American International Pictures and was written, produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon. Starring Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher, and Ida Lupino, 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.

Michael Medved gave it the Golden Turkey Award for "Worst Rodent Movie of All Time".

  1. ^ Richard Nowell, Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle Continuum, 2011 p 257
  2. ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-8357-1776-2. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada