
Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!... (Full plot summary below)
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Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!
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| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumTeaming Collins with ants is pure Bert I. Gordon. |
| Portland OregonianTed MaharEvery bit as contrived as the leading lady's hairstyles, and rather less technically impressive, this is still trashy fun. |
| VarietyVariety StaffPeriodic moments of good special effects are separated by reels of dramatic banality as players flounder in flimsy dialog and under sluggish direction. |
| New York TimesA.H. WeilerThe human's fright is seen as play acting, and the account of their progress over a gory trail is slow and repetitive. And, aside from some multifaceted ant's-eye views of humans, the special effects are artificial and unexciting. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsFrank WilkinsCheap special effects and nonexistent horror in a 'horror' flick make for one boring waste of celluloid. |
| Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)Bob BloomBring on the DDT. A silly giant-bug opus with cheap special effects. |
| User ReviewAngie H"I just get you there and get you back." |
| User ReviewWayne ZShlocky and shockingly awful but very enjoyable nontheless. I think Joan Cokllins looks great in this, though she doesn't really get to do a helluva lot. Some of the effects contain large mechanical ants, others are ants filmed against a blue screen and super-imposed, other are regular ants just filmed in close up. It's pretty obvious which are which. Has the look of a TV movie from this era, which this reviewer happens to like. Best to leave your brain behind while watching! |
| User ReviewSideshow BJoan Collins in 1977? Nothing less than 4 stars |
| User ReviewChristopher TWatch it in a post-modern, ironic way if you must, but there's no denying it's about a million times better than 'The Swarm'... |