THE FOOD OF THE GODS

The "food" mysteriously bubbles up from the ground on a remote island somewhere in British Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Skinner consider it a gift from God, and feed it to their chickens, which grow larger than humans as a result. Rats, wasps, and grubs also consume the substance, and the island becomes infested with giant vermin. One night, a swarm of giant rats kill Mr. Skinner after his car tire is punctured in the forest.

A professional football player named Morgan is on the island for a hunting trip with his buddies when one of them is stung to death by giant wasps. After ferrying his friends back to the mainland, Morgan returns to investigate. Also thrown into the mix are Thomas and Rita, an expecting couple; Jack Bensington, the owner of a dog food company, who hopes to market the substance; and Bensington's assistant Lorna Scott, a bacteriologist. After Morgan locates and dynamites the giant wasps' enormous nest, he and the others become trapped in the Skinners' farmhouse, surrounded by giant rats. Morgan's friend Brian, Bensington, and Mrs. Skinner are killed by the rats.

Morgan blows up a nearby dam, flooding the area and drowning the rats, whose size and weight render them unable to swim. After the waters clear, the survivors pile up the bodies of the rats, spilling the jars of "F.O.T.G." and gasoline on them before burning them. However, several of Mrs. Skinner's jars of "F.O.T.G." are swept away, drifting to a mainland farm. The substance is consumed by dairy cows, and in the film's closing scene, schoolchildren are shown unwittingly drinking the tainted milk, implying that they will also experience abnormal growth.

Morgan floods the area to drown the giant rats, and the survivors burn the bodies, but jars of the growth substance drift to the mainland, where dairy cows consume it and schoolchildren drink the tainted milk.

The ending delivers a classic cautionary sting: while the immediate threat of giant rats is resolved through resourceful action, the film hints that the menace will spread as the growth substance contaminates the food chain beyond the island. It's a final twist that suggests humanity’s troubles with tampering in nature are only beginning.