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Release Date: 1977

Cast: Robert Pine, Brooke Palance, Tom Fadden, Albert Salmi, John David Carson, Robert Lansing, Jacqueline Scott, Joan Collins, Edward Power, Pamela Susan Shoop

Categories: Movies, Horror, Natural Horror Films, Monster, Cult, Creature Film, B-Movie, Science Fiction

Empire of the Ants is a 1977 science fiction horror film by Bert I. Gordon. Based very loosely on Empire of the Ants by H.G. Wells, the film involves a group of prospective land buyers led by a land developer, pitted against giant, mutated ants. A heavenly paradise becomes a hellish nightmare when a toxic spill turns harmless ants into gigantic rampaging monster insects. Stumbling into their creepy lair, land developer Marilyn Fryser (Joan Collins) and her clients are horrified to realize the ants are devouring humans. Fleeing for their lives, they discover the giant ants are determined to... MORE

Empire of the Ants is a 1977 science fiction horror film by Bert I. Gordon. Based very loosely on Empire of the Ants by H.G. Wells, the film involves a group of prospective land buyers led by a land developer, pitted against giant, mutated ants. A heavenly paradise becomes a hellish nightmare when a toxic spill turns harmless ants into gigantic rampaging monster insects. Stumbling into their creepy lair, land developer Marilyn Fryser (Joan Collins) and her clients are horrified to realize the ants are devouring humans. Fleeing for their lives, they discover the giant ants are determined to exterminate humankind and build an evil empire. As with most Bert I. Gordon films, the giant ants are rendered by way of photographically enlarged animal footage and rear projection. The size of the ants varies from scene to scene. They often appear to suddenly crawl off the ground and walk vertically upwards in thin air. This is due to real ants being placed in a set lined with photographs of the locations where the scenes were shot. When an ant walked onto the rear photograph it appeared to walk on the sky. Where the film calls for actors to interact with the ants, large mock-up props are LESS