L'Empire des fourmis géantes

Original title: Empire of the Ants

1977
12
1h 29m

IMDb RATING

4.3/10

5.8K

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Adventure Horror Sci-Fi

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.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

4.3/10

5.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations total

Trivia
According 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.

Goofs
After the survivors emerge from the swamp, there are alternating scenes in which Marilyn Fryser's (Joan Collins) white skirt is dirty, then completely clean, and then dirty again.

Quotes
Coreen Bradford: Oh my God! They're herding us like cattle!

Alternate versions
The 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".

Connections
Featured in A Century of Science Fiction (1996)

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Featured review

4/10

Good and bad. Mostly bad.

First the good. The special effects were actually not bad. Much better than this movie deserved. The bad. It was like watching a Hanna Barbera cartoon with humans. Just like in cartoons, they do not see what's right in front of them until the camera pulls back to a wide shot. Then, suddenly, the characters can now see the ants! Wow. If they only used a wide angle lens the whole time, then maybe the humans could be saved. But it's a lousy movie so who cares.