Word: hellstrom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Homo sapiens but also making new advances. Aided by Government restrictions on pesticides as well as their own growing immunity to the chemicals, and benefiting further from the miscalculations and complacency of their human enemies, insects seem well on their way to fulfilling the chilling prophecy of The Hellstrom Chronicle: "If any living species is to inherit the earth, it will...
They do, in fact. Says Mrs. John Hellstrom, a stock analyst's wife and mother of two who lives in Morristown, N.J., "I shop much more carefully for food, but my husband and I don't care if it's not fancy. Recreation is more important, particularly because my husband works so hard...
...Hellstrom Chronicle (1971). An often fascinating, sometimes dumb documentary about insects--and how they might inherit the earth. Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m. Color, 1 1/2 hours...
...essay on human fallibility and insect adaptability, The Hellstrom Chronicle seems just a little too facile. The pseudo-documentary framework of the film becomes rickety in places, as Hellstrom (Lawrence Pressman) intones a narration more inflated than informative ("The world was created not with the sweetness of love but the violence of rape"). It is rather as a visual experience that the film succeeds so supremely well...
...bodies to form a carriage for their obese queen, and defend her by hurling themselves against attackers with suicidal ferocity. The viewer is brought so deeply into all this that after a few minutes the film begins to take on a surprising immediacy. Like all good science fiction, The Hellstrom Chronicle suggests an alternate reality, then surrounds you with it, inducing a weird sense of disorientation. Despite the melodramatic Dr. Hellstrom, it is a trip much worth taking...