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4.3/10
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Con artist Marilyn Fryser tries to sell bogus real estate deals in an area overrun by giant ants.Con artist Marilyn Fryser tries to sell bogus real estate deals in an area overrun by giant ants.Con artist Marilyn Fryser tries to sell bogus real estate deals in an area overrun by giant ants.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Pamela Susan Shoop
- Coreen Bradford
- (as Pamela Shoop)
Florance McGee
- Phoebe Russell
- (as Florence McGee)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaAccording to Pamela Susan Shoop, the film's sound man had a fight with director Bert I. Gordon towards the end of the shoot and threw all of its audio tapes into the swamp. They lost everything, so the entire film had to be looped. Because of this, their voices and actions never quite mesh.
- GoofsBefore the captain jumps into the ocean to try and save the boat, he takes off his shoes. After he burns the boat, he jumps into the water and you can clearly see his shoes.
- Quotes
Coreen Bradford: Oh my God! They're herding us like cattle!
- Alternate versionsThe original UK theatrical version of this film was heavily cut to both receive an "A" (PG) certificate and reduce scenes of screaming and violence, including attacks and bloodied bodies. These cuts were restored to it for the 2002 ILC release and the certificate was upgraded to a "15".
- ConnectionsFeatured in A Century of Science Fiction (1996)
Featured review
A fake land-seller : Joan Collins attempts to sell bogus real state to a group of innocent buyers : John David Carson , Robert Lansing , Jacqueline Scott , Pamela Shoop, Robert Pine at a location that is being run over by mutant giant ants contamined by radioactive waste. After ingesting an unknown radioactive substance , ants become huge and threatening the occupants of the remote Everglades in Florida . For they shall inherit the earth..sooner than you think ! . It's no picnic ! ..
Routine and regular monster movie about habitual issue concerning a group of nuclear , enormous , unfriendly ants stalking a real state dealer and prospective buyers of undeveloped oceanfront property. This is a cheap , humdrum version rendition of the H. G. Wells novel by suffering from lousy interpretations and an embarrassing lack of imagination. Fakey special effects might have been decent in the Sixties or Seventies , but they just don't cut it today. This is the follow-up to "Food of the Gods" 1976 also directed by Bert I Gordon with Marjoe Gortner, Ida Lupino, Pamela Franklin , Ralph Meeker . The motion picture was written , produced and directed by Bert I Gordon and he made the special effects effects too, in his usual primitive and traditional style . Bett realized various Sci-Fi , Fantasy and monsters movies , such as: " Cyclops , Food of the gods , Viillage of the Giants, Magic Sword , Picture Mammy Dead , Big Bet , and Witching, the Necromancy" . This is not nice enough even to be deemed a camp movie , as H. G Wells's story is trashed in this ordinary movie , in fact he must somersault in his grave every time somebody sees this below average rendition of one of his more thrilling stories. Rating : 4/10. Below average .
Routine and regular monster movie about habitual issue concerning a group of nuclear , enormous , unfriendly ants stalking a real state dealer and prospective buyers of undeveloped oceanfront property. This is a cheap , humdrum version rendition of the H. G. Wells novel by suffering from lousy interpretations and an embarrassing lack of imagination. Fakey special effects might have been decent in the Sixties or Seventies , but they just don't cut it today. This is the follow-up to "Food of the Gods" 1976 also directed by Bert I Gordon with Marjoe Gortner, Ida Lupino, Pamela Franklin , Ralph Meeker . The motion picture was written , produced and directed by Bert I Gordon and he made the special effects effects too, in his usual primitive and traditional style . Bett realized various Sci-Fi , Fantasy and monsters movies , such as: " Cyclops , Food of the gods , Viillage of the Giants, Magic Sword , Picture Mammy Dead , Big Bet , and Witching, the Necromancy" . This is not nice enough even to be deemed a camp movie , as H. G Wells's story is trashed in this ordinary movie , in fact he must somersault in his grave every time somebody sees this below average rendition of one of his more thrilling stories. Rating : 4/10. Below average .
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- Also known as
- H.G. Wells' Empire of the Ants
- Filming locations
- Belle Glade, Florida, USA(location)
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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