 
A group of tourists
visit the Florida everglades as they are
considering buying lands there to build
their own houses while a sleazy scam
artist named Marilyn Fraser (Joan
Collins) shows them around with fake
setups.
However, the area is invaded by giant
ants that kills anyone there caused by
radioactive waste that people at sea
dumped into the water and one of the
barrels landed on shore for the ants to
get to.
They also find out that the local county
sherrif department lead by Art Kinkade
(Albert Salmi) is supporting these giant
ants.
These tourists must try to escape this
madness and battle these creatures as
well since one by one they are being
killed and eaten.
Ahh yes a 70's
movie that dedicates to those old
fashioned giant insect horror films and
they use the same chemistry for it too. A
perfect movie to watch at a drive in
without a doubt.
Cheesily well done with some interesting
horror and sci-fi value by War of
the Worlds creator H.G.
Wells but there needed to be more
stuff happening to keep your eyes to the
set as the story goes around in circles a
bit.
The acting is in
fair taste and have a well known cast to
participate in this film.
Joan Collins is wonderful in her
role trying to be a deceiving host at the
party convincing people to buy the land
and also shows great energy at being
scared when she has to escape from the
giant ants.
Co-starring character actor Robert
Lansing is great as a courageous
type in the film and stands out very well
in this film.
Supporting actor Robert Pine is
a believeable scumbag in the film with
his actions towards others.
Albert Salmi also does great as
an evil county sheriff as you'd really
want to fear from him for what he is
doing to his town.
There is some
bloodshed when the ants claw and bite
their victims but nothing that anyone
can't handle.
The directing by Bert
I. Gordon is slightly cheesy but
enjoyable nonetheless.
He directed lead actress Joan Collins
quite well as a tourist host making
her look very good no matter what.
There is a strong scene between Robert
Pine and Brooke Palance
when Pine's character forces to
make out with Palance's character
and Gordon makes you convinced that
there's going to be some physical
violence between one of them.
There's a cool cheesy shot of the giant
ants walking on a pier although it's just
a special effect Gordon made
sure this film looked very old fashioned
horror like.
It's also cool showing the giant ants
attacking it's victims too as I sometimes
laughed it looked so cheesy seeing those
gigantic ants cause they look totally
fake..
There's especially a great intense
reaction to Brooke Palance when
she is swarmed with giant ants all around
her.
There are two supporting actors named
Jack Kosslyn and Florance McGee as
elderly couples in a swampy area. At
first they show no emotions in their
small scene as if they were zombies which
has good timing making you think they are
a strange couple residing in the area
where the giant ants are.
He directs Salmi very well with
forcing the locals to be with the giant
ants making you not wanting to be there
at all.
Dana Kaproff does
fine with his music in the film but there
are some violin sequences that sounds
similar to the Jaws
theme song.
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