Aging businessman and southern patriarch Jason Crockett invites friends and family to his estate to celebrate Independence Day (and his birthday). After an accident, a photographer also arrives and documents the environmental pollution in the region. That these members of the upper crust are not decimated as much by the titular frogs as by various other critters is beside the point. Because George McCowan’s underrated horror thriller is an effortless, witty ecofantasy in which those who get rich off the environment and destroy it in the process are devoured by selfsame environment. Three cheers to the healing power of nature! (mk)

With the kind support of and in cooperation with Filmarchiv Austria.