so bad its good!


This is one of those movies where it is so bad that it is good....how can you not love the scenes where the ants were beginning to take over the lawn? Or when they are all sitting there with the ants all over them.

The patient's screaming disturbing me, performed removal of vocal chords. ~Zombie Holocaust

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Have to agree...
This film was stinky bad! Such mid '70's Cheese! And fun as hell.
But the one thing g I wish they had on this DVD was a "Making Of" short...
Perhaps a gag reel. THAT would have been REALLY interesting!

Trust me,
Swan

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Ants is suppose to be a cheesy, schlocky animal horror film that didn't take
itself too seriously and I think that adds to the campiness of it. It's stupid
horror fun and it knows it is.

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Hi phelpssue,
you are perfectly right...:-)
especially when one thinks about the method with which they supposed to end the danger coming from the ants (digging a trench around the house, filling it with flammable liquid -gasoline, I suppose- and then "let 'em burn and die"!)
That's a common way to "solve problems" in that kind of B-movies about animals. But - it wouldn't work, at least not in that particular case... considering the fact that ant's tunnels go many feet below the surface, they never could have dug out the trenches deep enough... and fast enough! No way...
But of course that's a movie which is sometimes funny to watch, just for that sort of silly elements of the story - just a gem of the genre ;-O)
I only missed the fat old town mayor shouting to the sheriff - who sees the danger - "How can we close the fair / inhibit the Anniversary Parade / cancel the whatever-it-is-competition (e.g. the sailboat's race on the lake, where the bad, bad fishes are already waiting)? think about the financial losses... etc. etc." - or was something like that in the movie?
There always have to be some Ed Wood types in that wonderful world of movie, at least one for every decade :-)
and here we have a favourite for the 1970ies!
(by the way, it IS possible to make shocking and not schlocky movies in that genre even with not many technical tricks and rather crappy creature models. Top on my list: not "Tarantula", although a classic, but "Formicula". Paper maché-made ants, but oh how frightening is the finale in the canalisation of - I think - Los Angeles. And that sizzling sound whenever they are near but cannot be seen... THAT's pure and not poor horror...)

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The ending is pretty memorable.

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