diminished the value of the original and called it "one of the worst films I've ever seen". [ 85 ] Eventually, the film garnered so much hate that Boorman disowned the film. In an interview with Bob McCabe for the book The Exorcist: Out of the Shadows , he confessed, "The sin I committed was not giving the audience what it wanted in terms of horror." [ 86 ] The Swarm is a horror film about a killer bee invasion of Texas , directed and produced by Irwin Allen . Despite its all-star cast (including Michael Caine and Olivia de Havilland ), it was a box office failure and was excoriated by reviewers. [ 87 ] On its UK release, The Sunday Times described The Swarm as "simply the worst film ever made". [ 88 ] Leslie Halliwell described The Swarm as a "very obvious disaster movie with risible dialogue". [ 87 ] The Guardian article on The Swarm stated "You could pass it all off as a sick joke, except it cost twelve million dollars, twenty-two million bees, and several years of someone's life". [ 87 ] Barry Took , reviewing The Swarm for Punch , stated "the story is of a banality matched only by the woodenness of the acting". [ 87 ] Time Out magazine called The Swarm a "risibly inadequate disaster movie". [ 89 ] The Swarm is included in several "worst movie" books, including the Medved brothers' The Golden Turkey Awards , [ 90 ]