Dead Ant

Sometimes you need a movie that entertains you. Are you going to learn anything from this? No. But you will be entertained. How many so called great actors make a movie with Millions of dollars worth of special effects and at the end you thought it sucked. Well they spent some thousand on special effects and I thought it was good. I would recommend this movie.

This horror comedy spoof has its moments with some laughs and chuckles along the way. But, to me, the positives were not consistent enough to rate any higher.

There's a good cast here, as the nearing has-been status metal band Sonic Grave and their manager (Tom Arnold) are traveling to Coachella---oops! make that the Nochella Festival (as they couldn't get booked into the big one). Stopping to buy some hallucinatory peyote from a local Native American with the hopes of creating some new songs, they're warned to not even slightly desecrate the land or living things in the area or there will be terrible consequences for them. Well, I don't have to tell you that soon they'll be battling and running from giant killer ants as the consequences.

All in all, this film, written and directed by Ron Carlson, offers some eroticism from young lithesome bodies, some gruesome horror scenes, and, as mentioned, some shock value laughs but I would say the 5.0 rating on this site is about right.

Watched this with a friend and both we really enjoyed it - yes, Dead Ant is for certain no masterpiece but nevertheless entertaining - if you like horror + comedy + trash movie style. Alone the rock 'n' roll cliches are well played and here and there you get even a sip of gore. Not to forget the hot chicks provided, and last but not least, the acting and cam work are rock solid.

To sum it up: Dead Ant is a good one if you like trashy horror-comedies which you can watch "braindead" ;)

Bottom line: If you're looking for a cheesy B-Horror, Dead Ant is fun enough, but they didn't do a great job with most of it. It's worth a watch, but don't expect it to be more than it advertises.

Dead Ant is a mediocre B-horror movie with a pretty decent cast. You'll recognize a lot of the actors and it's fun to see them all in a movie that doesn't take itself seriously. It's not a hidden gem or an amazing comedy, but it delivers what it promises.

After the setup, it gets a little rough for a bit and was shaping up to be a 4/10, but by the end they do a lot of the rock & roll jokes you wanted to see the whole time and they save it. Ironically the logic gets worse and worse, but the quality of the jokes do get better as it gets closer to the conclusion. If they were able to do the whole film like the ending scenes then I would have loved it.

Jake Busey is great as always, Tom Arnold has some pretty funny lines, and I really enjoyed Danny Woodburn until the end when they made him kind of lame.

No pun intended - especially because there is a lot of it in the movie. But it is a comedy horror movie - so there is that. And we see that right from the beginning, when one character runs away ... and undresses herself until she is completely naked ... did it help her come out of her ordeal alive? You'll have to see for yourself. But do not be expecting too much or do not be too afraid when it comes to nudity. That is going to be the bulk of it. The rest of the movie is going to be horror, comedy and Rock (not necessarily in that order).

Tom Arnold being Tom Arnold, but also everyone else involved giving it their best. It is not always easy to find the right mixture when it comes to horror and comedy. I would argue the movie hits the spot. So if you don't mind the subgenre, you could do a lot worse than this. And I know I may be a bit too forgiving when it comes to my rating - but it only happens ... well a quite few times actually. Still this is fun and entertaining and ends on quite the right note (no pun intended).