Empire Of The Ants (1977)
Post by: monsterhunter on November 25th, 2008 | File Under All Reviews, Horror, Midnite Movies
Things begin ominously enough when the unseen narrator starts droning on about how cool ants are and how they can do all this great stuff like push aphids around and dig up dirt between the cracks of sidewalks. They also have this super sweet gimmick where they spray pheromones on people to make them do their bidding! Sensing an opportunity to turn this dopey giant bug movie into a learning experience, I hit the world wide web to find out if pheromones could really cause giant ants to take over the world. It looks like they actually use this stuff to communicate with each other about dangers, sex, and the location of the right ant hill. I also made the mistake of looking into our own use of pheromones and found out that it is thought pheromones released from the armpits may cause women living together to have “synchronous menstrual cycles.” Whoa, thanks for sharing! Let see those ants beat that! Read More »
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This is a sturdy entry in that genre of horror film where stuff is either way too big or way too small. In this case, you’ve got a bunch of people shrunk down by a mad doll maker instead of giant puppets running around killing people (like the title tricked me into believing I’d be seeing).
I always wondered why they never made any movies based on those John Carter, Warlord of Mars books that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote back in the middle ages, but after seeing an ancient Doug McClure and even more ancient (who’d have thought it possible?) Peter Cushing mucking around in the center of the Earth at some Burroughs’ created land called Pellucidar, I breathed a pretty big sigh of relief that John Carter and his planet-saving exploits were still relegated to my meager imagination.