Empire of the Ants #178 (C-)

A-hahaha!!  The ants seemed like they were projected into the shot via overhead projector or something similar.  I don't know what they did, but it was funny.  Almost like the ants were a macro shot from a tank and the screen was split, half ant tank/half people in the woods.  Hell, the ants often were climbing up nothing (seemingly the air) when really it was the tank walls.

In all actuality, it was done pretty well considering the release date was in the late 1970's.  Then when the ants would get close, it seemed like a shot straight out of Troll 2.  Super close up and you could only see their fuzzy heads.  Also, some of the action shots consisted of the cameramen just shaking the camera back and forth to add to the "excitement".  Man, this was funny.

And, we have yet another movie which had some form of insect attack where they dub-in cicada and loud screeching as the killer's sound (although this one was old, so this could have been the original movie to do this...haha).  Point being, that is not the noise of a giant killer ant, it's a cicada and other ear piercing shrills.  I guess I can't talk however, because I've never seen a giant ant, so maybe they do sound like that?

The movie actually reminded me a lot of Shock Waves, although instead of being trapped on an island full of surrounding water and getting attacked by nazi water zombies, they were getting attacked by humongous leaf cutter ants.

Best part for me was watching my first Joan Collins movie (that I can recall) and watching her get eaten by the queen ant.  YES!