Saturday, April 19, 2014

Empire of the Ants (1977)

How bad is it? It has some of the worst effects ever.
Should you see it? Not really. It's too slow.

Joan Collins, in one of her worst roles, and there are many to choose from, plays a real estate developer who shows people property on an island that has giant ants. The ants are obviously back-projected and usually out of focus from being behind smudged glass you can clearly see impede them. Based on a H.G.Wells story, it doesn't follow the book at all, but does follow the same storylines Bert I. Gordon used in films decades earlier, but to better effect.

See also the next post.

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