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ADDITION: Kino Blu-ray (July 2022): Kino have transferred Lee H. Katzin's Terror Out of the Sky to Blu-ray. It is cited as being from a "Brand New 2K Master". Despite TV production limitations and housed with a modest single-layered transfer, it looks consistent and clean - a shade faded - but highly watchable and a notable advancement over SD. The 1080P presentation may exceed anticipation. It's, obviously, no where near the heights of the format but easily passable for 70's TV-movie aficionados. 

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On their Blu-ray, Kino use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel track (24-bit) in the original English language. Terror Out of the Sky has, well... buzzing bees - that can be effectively loud. The, occasionally dramatic, score is by William Goldstein (The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings,) sounding clean with consistent dialogue in the lossless transfer. It's unremarkable but suits the film. Kino offer optional English subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Kino Blu-ray offers a new commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle and Filmmaker David DeCoteau. They talk about Tovah Feldshuh with anecdotal stories, how Terror Out of the Sky was actually a sequel to The Savage Bees with Ben Johnson, the rarity of TV movie sequels, how the African and South American 'killer bees' were in the news, the paranoia factor, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.'s career (The F.B.I. TV Series), Philip Baker Hall's hilarious performance in Seinfeld, his Paul Thomas Anderson roles, director Lee H. Katzin (Le Mans with Steve McQueen, TV work from Mission: Impossible to Space: 1999 etc.). They talk about how Terror Out of the Sky follows the tropes of 'Bee' movies that preceded it, producer Alan Landsburg (Jaws 3-D, Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo, Ants!, Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women etc) and much more. The two Davids work so well together, are fun and fill the commentary with stories, unpublished details and it's very much worth the indulgence. There are trailers for Ritual of Evil and Chosen Survivors but none for this TV movie. The package has an appealing O-card slipcase. 

Lee H. Katzin's Terror Out of the Sky is more of the same for those into this over-baked insect-attacking movie genre. I'd have probably preferred the prequel, The Savage Bees (where Gretchen Corbett played Feldshuh’s role of Jeannie Devereux) but alas we get the fictional 'Center for Bees' in another stinging conflict. They even find space for Grizzly Adams. I'd easily take The Wasp Woman , The Deadly Bees (with delightful Suzanna Leigh), or for an intelligent insect sci-fi, Phase IV or even 1954's Them! with some far more imposing pests. Anywho, Terror Out of the Sky has the 70's creature-feature TV cache. It's bad... but in a nostalgic way. The Kino Blu-ray includes the amusing, educational, commentary. Terror Out of the Sky's not fatally poor to have it on the shelf for rare occasions. Pretty rare.

Gary Tooze