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]