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Empire of the Ants 1977 123movies

Empire of the Ants 1977 123movies

For they shall inherit the earth... sooner than you think!Jun. 29, 197789 Min.
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Watch: Empire of the Ants 1977 123movies, Full Movie Online – Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don’t know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!.
Plot: A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.
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4.2/10 Votes: 4,970
5% | RottenTomatoes
26/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 83 Popularity: 9.912 | TMDB

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_**Despondent strangers are thrust into a life-or-death fight near the Everglades**_

A vixen selling questionable swamp land by the ocean in southeastern Florida (Joan Collins) leads a tour of potential buyers suddenly assaulted by colossal ants, evidently altered due to (what else?) radioactive waste.

“Empire of the Ants” (1977) may have been inspired by HG Wells’ short story, but it wasn’t based on it at all. It’s basically “Them!” (1954) set in the Everglades in living color two decades later and therefore more akin to “Frogs” (1972). The milieu of cynical people struggling to survive in the Florida bog fighting sci-fi jungle creatures reminded me of Steve Gerber’s Man-Thing comics from 1973-1975.

To give an idea of what to expect, it was made by the director of “The Food of the Gods” (1976), “Earth vs the Spider” (1958) and “Village of the Giants” (1965), although it lacks the goofiness of the latter.

Pamela Susan Shoop is a highlight on the female front, along with Brooke Palance (Jack’s daughter).
Meanwhile stalwart Robert Lansing’s acting range consists of grim and slightly less grim. John David Carson and Robert Pine are also on hand (Robert is, incidentally, Chris Pine’s father).

The seriousness is appreciated, but I found the first hour relatively dull, maybe because the melancholy characters are lifeless (initially, at least). Thankfully, everything perks up in the last act for some unexpected happenings. I’m not going to give anything away.

Shooting in remote swampland naturally proved challenging. Proper restrooms were half an hour away by speedboat, which meant an hour delay if the women simply had to go to the bathroom. Joan complained about having to do the boat capsize scene in alligator-infested waters due to a delay in the arrival of their stunt doubles (who would lose the work). But she agreed to do it because the director was starting to describe her as “difficult” and she didn’t want to lose future work being pigeonholed as a prima donna. Despite being a bit of a mess, Pamela stressed that it was a fun shoot.

The film runs 1 hour, 29 minutes, and was shot in Belle Glade, Florida, just south of Lake Okeechobee, with the coastal scenes done at Jensen Beach, an hour’s drive northeast, which is just south of Fort Pierce. So we’re talking about the general region north of the Fort Lauderdale/Miami area.

GRADE: B-/C+

Review By: Wuchak

The audio in _Empire of the Ants_ is infuriating to the point of being nigh unwatchable. But on mute? By jingo you might just be onto something there.

_Final rating:★★ – Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._

Review By: Gimly
Joan Collins gets attacked by giant ants!
…is just one of the many silly scenes featured in this laughable ‘sci-fi’ entry in the notorious late 1970’s where Joan Collins squares off against a gigantic queen ant positioned inside a master control station inside a sugar warehouse.

Robert Lansing and John David Carson also star in “EMPIRE OF THE ANTS”, a remarkable production financed by the now-defunct Orion Pictures (responsible for releasing many blaxploitation films in the 1970’s) that features giant mutated ants attacking a boatload of prospective real estate buyers and a township of residents who become hypnotized by none other than the queen ant herself.

The high-light of “EMPIRE OF THE ANTS” are not the ants themselves, but Joan Collins and the notorious performance given by her in this hilarious movie where she successfully gives true meaning to the words, ‘camp classic’. She portrays a sleazy real estate saleswoman who leads a group of misfits on a sale junket to a remote island that is unknowingly to her controlled by mutated ants that have been exposed to a drum of toxic waste.

Once the group reach the island, it doesn’t take long before the cliche’s kick in, such as the strange rustling in the bushes where a curious victim will investigate the noise, or the mysterious aspect of the missing ‘helping hands’ who have disappeared from the job. Furthermore, none of the film’s characters have been developed so that you will sympathize or care for their outcome.

When the ants make their appearance, hilarity and laughter will ensue as you witness some unique special effects that will most certainly take their place in cinematic history. Of the ants that you get to see from far away, it is basically stock footage of ants within an ‘ant farm’ that has been spliced onto the film of the movie. Of the ants that you get to see close up, they are basically huge papier mache puppets that could be mistaken as extras from an episode of “DOCTOR WHO” that ensure nothing less than unintentional laughter.

Seeing victims meeting their demise, such as the old couple who take shelter inside a remote out-house, only to venture back outside to discover lots of giant ants swarming the place is nothing short of hysterical. Especially the looks on their faces as they witness the horror, I got the impression that the old man just wanted to say to his wife, “Oh… well hmmm… looks like this is it my dear!” My favorite ‘death scene’ was the woman in the green pants suit who just stood there as the ant with a hundred eyes inches towards her and she repeatedly screams, “MA-MA!” like some sort of big baby.

Seeing Joan Collins doing her best ‘bitch’ impression as she snaps catty one-liners and runs around screaming with her hands in the air as she sees footage of an ant standing completely still and doing nothing will make you laugh hysterically. The ending of the film that shows her demise is misunderstood. She doesn’t actually get ‘eaten’ by the ants. From what I saw, she was dealt a few blows by the queen ant that thrashed at her a few times as it died, but it appeared to me that she died from nothing more than inhaling the ‘smoke’ or pheromes released by the queen ant and she suffered asphyxiation.

Furthermore, why would these ants actually eat people when they’ve gone to the trouble of hypnotizing a whole town just so they can get them to process a sugar refinery for them? The answer is really no big deal. No one watching this movie is actually looking for facts and truth. It’s an hour and a half of non-stop hilarity and that is exactly what I got. Besides, “EMPIRE OF THE ANTS” is so notoriously bad, MGM (responsible for releasing the movie on DVD) even marketed this movie as being Joan Collins’ career foible!

My Rating – 6 out of 10.

Review By: Aussie Stud

Other Information:

Original Title Empire of the Ants
Release Date 1977-06-29
Release Year 1977

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director Bert I. Gordon
Writer H.G. Wells, Jack Turley, Bert I. Gordon
Actors Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson
Country United States
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Ryder Sound Services)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Movielab, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 2,450 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Empire of the Ants 1977 123movies
Empire of the Ants 1977 123movies
Original title Empire of the Ants
TMDb Rating 4.729 83 votes

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