''Black Swarm'' is a 2007 Canadian

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directed by

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. Actor

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plays a mysterious beekeeper who has a secret to hide in the small town of Black Stone. It is the ninth film in the ''Maneater'' film series.

Plot

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, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from

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to Black Stone,

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, with her nine-year-old daughter Kelsey Kozik. There, she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a

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man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's blind friend Beverly Rowe. Devin Hall and the

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Katherine Randell are summoned to help with the investigation. Devin is Jane's brother-in-law and former boyfriend, and Jane still has a crush on him. Meanwhile, Kelsey befriends the scientist Eli Giles, who has developed

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for the army as a weapon, and now he is trying to revert the process. When the wasps attack Black Stone, Jane, Devin and Eli team-up to attempt to destroy the swarm.

Cast

* Sebastien Roberts as Devin Hall *

as Eli Giles * Sarah Allen as Jane Kozik * Rebecca Windheim as Kelsey Kozik *

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as Katherine Randell

Production

The movie was filmed in Montreal and surrounding small towns in July and August 2007. It is the 9th film of the '' Maneater Series''.

Release

It was released on DVD by Genius Entertainment on February 3, 2009.

Reception

Scott Foy of DreadCentral rated it 3.5 out of 5 and called it "an above average effort from the Sci-Fi Channel that never insults your intelligence even though it does have its fair share of logic gaps". Laura Burrows of

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rated it 4 out of 10 and called it "an awful film" with "terrible CGI". Patrick Bromley of

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describes it as having "terrible CGI effects" and "cheesy plotting and non-existent acting". Justin Felix of

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called it a "celluloid atrocity", though he stated that it has a "certain Ed Wood B-movie charm to it".

References

External links

* {{Maneater 2007 television films 2007 horror films 2007 films 2000s English-language films Films directed by David Winning Maneater (film series) Sonar Entertainment films Syfy original films Canadian horror television films English-language Canadian films Canadian natural horror films Films shot in Montreal Films set in New York (state) 2000s American films 2000s Canadian films English-language horror films