GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) Horror movies dealing with bugs can make your skin crawl. I've seen a lot of those types of movies. Some like spiders,roaches, and other household pests make you want to buy bug sprays. In "Ants", it makes you want to buy a lifetime supply of it. Here you have a construction crew working near an old hotel making an expansion to the place, and they get visited by an unscrupulous real estate magnate (Gerald Gordon) to buy the land so he can build a casino. However, unknown to the proprietor(Myrna Loy), they have a bigger problem. It's not the magnate, it's a pest problem that is nightmarish from the start. Earlier, two workers are in the pit, one gets bitten by the ants, and are accidentally buried by the loader. Normally, ant bites are not dangerous, but the ants here have became immune to pesticides due to years of exposure. After the deaths of the workers and the hotel chef, immediate action is taken. Since ants are smart enough to build bridges, everyone build a trench and fill it with gasoline, because they can't go through fire. Other non flying bugs could ever get over water. "Kingdom of the Spiders" was scary, "Bug" was scary, "Ants" was a little subtle. It can happen to anyone, and it might make someone to become an exterminator. All you need is research. 3.5 out of 5 stars.

Aaron1375 I remember watching this movie when I was young, but could not recall the title to it then going through horror movies I find it and think to myself "that is the title?" This movie is a kind of combination disaster film/insect attack film with fewer notable stars in it. It is also somewhat boring too, as it has that television vibe to it where you can see the movie fade out for commercials and such. The plot has this sort of resort being invaded by ants. I think they were a bit disturbed by construction or something going on nearby, but do not quote me on that. The most memorable ant attack for me in the whole flick was the first one involving the kid who falls into the swimming pool after being swarmed and of course Summers attack scene too. What else stands out in this one is the very goofy ending where the survivors use cardboard tubes to breath through. In the end though like most television movies this movie is very tame and not very scary in the least unless you panic at the sight of ants.

whiteb Just want to comment on this movie that I know as "Ants". I think I really only like to watch it and more than once because I grew up near this hotel. Despite the fact that IMDb lists the filming location as Vancouver, British Columbia, this movie was actually filmed in the small town of Qualicum Beach, about 60 miles west of Vancouver. Lakewood Manor is in reality the old Qualicum College, a private residential boys's school, converted around the time of this movie to a hotel called the Qualicum College Inn. The water overlooked by the building is not a lake at all, but rather the Strait of Georgia which separates Vancouver Island from the mainland of British Columbia.When I was a kid my friends and I would dig in the hard sandy clay just across the street from the college and make quite substantial caves. We were very foolhardy as these could have collapsed at any time, and of course we never realized that there were killer ants down in the ground!

Poseidon-3 For a while in the mid-70's, "animals on the rampage" films cluttered the cinematic landscape, most due to the success of "Jaws" and most ending up being far inferior product. Not to be outdone, TV movie producers started getting in on the action, utilizing some of the less impressive (and also less expensive) members of nature to do the evil bidding. Here ants, which have been embedded in contaminated soil for decades, get riled up and begin to bite the unlucky humans who are in their way. Foxworth plays a construction manager who's working on a site next to his girlfriend Day George's family-owned resort hotel. The entire area is being reinvigorated as a new tourist spot. However, a couple of his men have the misfortune of incurring the wrath of the killer ants and, before long, the ants have made their way into the old hotel, run by Day George's mother Loy. Gordon plays a hard-hitting developer attempting to buy the place, accompanied by his curvy, blonde girlfriend and partner Somers. Also hanging about are Van Dyke as a lifeguard and Lamm as a nomadic hitchhiker who coaxes him into letting her stay with him for a night. As the body count begins to tally up, authorities are called in, though no one can be sure what exactly is causing the deaths. Foxworth begins to test his theory that it's the ants by endlessly (and ridiculously) stirring them up, causing a major assault by them that traps several folks in the increasingly dangerous hotel. It would be difficult to imagine a cheesier, more ludicrous plot line than this one, though surely worse exists in the world. Characters act with so little sense or realistic motivation that it's hard to care what happens to any of them. The authority figures are amusingly inept as well. A fireman extends a ladder to just near a victim up on a high floor instead of right to her and then barely holds his hand out to get her. A helicopter blows the deadly ants all over a passel of extras posing as rubbernecking bystanders and then the firemen hose them all down with water! The rescuers take forever to do anything while the trapped people must fend for themselves inside the building, then they build a ring of fire around the building, ensuring that the ants will remain inside it! Foxworth was in an awkward career stage at this time, playing small roles as jerks in such films as "Damian: The Omen II" and "Airport '77." Fortunately, "Falcon Crest" would be along soon to rescue him. Day George rarely acted in anything of substance and can always be counted on for a few deranged expressions and overstated reactions. Kudos to both of these actors, however, for agreeing to be covered in real ants at the climax of the movie! Loy plays her role in a wheelchair and seems resigned to the fact that she's stuck in a piece of garbage. Gordon is appropriately jerky. Somers is reasonably appealing in her smallish role (the telefilm would later be repackaged as "Ants" and pretend to feature her as the star!) Van Dyke is nice to look at, if nothing else. Lamm was married to Beach Boy Dennis Wilson (twice!) Other notable names dotting the cast include Gillette in an annoying performance as a health official and Franken as a fellow associate, Casey as one of Foxworth's workers, Dennehy as the fire chief, Keach as a local doctor and "Hill Street Blues'" Enriquez as the world most oblivious (and sandal-clad!) cook. It's quite an idiotic movie, but audiences were far less demanding at the time it was made and often settled for claptrap like this if it contained a few popular names as this one does. Despite the endless idiocy, choppy editing, horrid special effects (consisting of terrible matte painting and plenty of chocolate jimmies!) and simplistic storytelling, it remains entertaining on a campy, kitchy level.