God Of Frogs — God Of Frogs( DVD)
God Of Frogs is a 2026 anthology with a rather distinctive/ original focus. The stories featured are told over a near eighty-year period, with the interlocking theme of frog & human hybrids. It’s certainly a curious and original venture- blending elements of horror, sci-fi, and dark comedy. Here from Miracle Media/MVD is a bare-bones release of the film.
The film has seemingly four directors- though I’m not clear who did what on the one hour forty/ four story film. So, there’s Adrian Bobb, Ali Chappell, Richard Lee, and Natalie Metcalfe. Bobb has seven other director credits- taking in shorts & one TV credit; he got a fair bit of praise for his 2025 sci-fi short Drifters. Chappell has six other director credits to her name, being a mix of shorts, another anthology Mother Goose's ScaryTales (2024), and another feature, Malediction (2025), a horror film regarding detoxing. This was Lee’s one & only director's credit to date- though he has thirty-four acting credits to his name. Metcalfe has only one other director's credit, a TV episode- though she’s got thirteen acting credits, and she's a stand-up comedian.
So the four stories are set in 1969, 1994, 2019 and 2044. The first story regards a hippie camp set near a marsh, where the bearded and headband guru has his eye on one of his followers to give birth to a fog/ human hybrid. This story takes a bit of time to get going, and the acting is not great. Though we do get a trippy frog /man female encounter & one moment of bloody knife action.
The second story finds one of the female relations of the cult now all grown-up, heading out to the marshes to make a film. This story features an actor who has a young Jeff Goldblum-like presence; we have a chuckling/ often saying the wrong thing guide, some neat SOV shots, and a few moments of body-slicing gore. With some neat nods towards the first Texas Chain Saw Massacre & the first Blair Witch. This is my Favorite story of the four.
The third story focuses in on a tubby/ bulbous eyed business executive who gets involved in setting up a chemical firm near the marshes/ connected to the frog/ human hybrids. This is the most confusion/ jarring of all of the stories- though there are some nice tense to atmospheric moments in it, as well as again one moment of decent kind-of-eerie gore.
The final story is the most sci-fi focused of the lot- it focuses on a woman who works in a processing plant for the human/ frog hybrid. This story ok I guess, maybe a little underwhelming- though it ends the film well enough.
Throughout the stories, we get a mix of CGI gore and practical effects- all of which are well enough executed. The most impressive thing is when we get to see frog/ human hybrids- they have neat split-in-four mouths, and a genreally great sinister presence.
As mentioned at the start of my review, this is a bare-bones release, with nothing except the film. It would have be nice to have maybe a feature about how the project came about, or even a commentary track featuring some/ all of the directors.
God of Frogs is certainly one of the better anthology films in recent memory, as it has such a distinctive focus, the flowing-through-time structure, and a decent blend of horror, sci-fi, and black comedy elements.