This movie is worthy of a bottom 100 place
Ok its a telemovie or direct to video, but it is one of the worst movies of all time. An absolute piece of trash.
I am sure you all agree....it has no redeeming features at all.
I haven't seen this movie, nor do I intend to, but it might be worth pointing out that "marabunta" is a word for army ants that seems to have originated in the George Pal movie THE NAKED JUNGLE (1954). "Marabunta" does not occur in the Carl Stephenson story, "Leiningen Versus the Ants," that was the source for Pal's movie. "Marabunta" is a word for a small, brown wasp of no harm to anyone. So the makers of this movie not only didn't have an original idea in the first place, they even lifted the (alternate) title from another movie.
shareI actually liked the film, and thought that it was intentionally funny as well as a quality horror/suspense film.
"Marabunta" is a real word that originated in the late 19th Century in Guyana, and it was originally for a type wasp, yes. Here's the MSN dictionary listing: http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_561538879/marabunta.html
Whether anyone used "marabunta" in real life for ants I don't know, although it is irrelevant to the value of the film. It's conceivable as a nickname for fire-ants, though, as they "sting".