God of Frogs (2026)

 

When the history of 2020s cinematic horror is written, there's going to need to be a fairly big section labelled 'ambitious and interesting ideas that lacked the budget and skill to really make them work'. GOD OF FROGS, which is getting a digital release from Miracle Media, is a case in point, offering an almost Lovecraftian concept of a frog worshipping community living among us but throwing a number of other interesting ideas and concepts into the mix as well.

The film is in four parts, each written and directed by different people, which is always a bit of a worrying sign suggesting a cobbling together of short films rather than a coherently thought through feature, although there are credits suggesting the project did have overall supervisors. The first part, 'Mother of All Frogs' is set in 1969 and introduces us to a hippy frog-worshipping cult, the frog in question being a large anthropoid amphibian that has to reproduce its kind with a willing human female.

Part 2, 'God of the Bog' is set in 1994 and tells the tale of a documentary film crew who set off into then swamps of Florida where they encounter normal frogs galore as well as something more monstrous. Part 3, 'Beelzebufo' is set in 2019 and suggests that big business is now planning to isolate the frog chemical hallucinogen introduced in the previous part and arrange for its mass manufacture. Unfortunately the man they go to for funding suffers a helicopter crash in Florida and ingests a bit too much froggy swamp water. Part 4 'Farm to Table' is set in 2044 with the mass industrial exploitation of frogs (I think) for their drug properties and involves a baby frog monster being saved by an industrial spy.

There's a lot going on in GOD OF FROGS but the underlying story of what's happening isn't always clear, so much so that you might need to watch it twice to work it out. Technical skills across the board are of the 'ultra low budget but in some cases promising' variety. The photography, especially in the first two stories, could have done with being more vivid rather than the horribly washed out palate we get, but the frog monster suit (and the baby frog monster in part four) are very well rendered. Even so it's a shame we get to see so much of them under bright lighting as a little subtlety here would have gone a long way to making things more effective. Still, if you're interested in modern ultra low-budget horror cinema you're definitely going to want to give GOD OF FROGS a look.

GOD OF FROGS is out on digital from Miracle Media on Monday 2nd March 2026