The Hive (2008)

When ants, displaying never-before-seen behavior, seize an island, the controversial Thorax Team is called to stop the massive threat only to discover that the ants are controlled by something beyond this world.

Director:

Peter Manus

Writer:

T.S. Cook (screenplay)

Stars:

Tom Wopat, Kal Weber, Elizabeth Healey

Cast

Credited cast:
Tom Wopat	...	Bill
Kal Weber	...	Len
Elizabeth Healey	...	Claire
Jessica Reavis	...	Debs
Mark Ramsey	...	Cortez
Pisek Intrakanchit	...	Chang
Kittiphit Tamrongweenijchai	...	Minister Zhing
Elizabeth Bodner	...	Ying
Chalad Na Songkhla	...	Army Officer
Sujinthara Phumjan	...	Young Mother
Dorrie Salmon	...	Baby
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Matthew Boylan	...	Scott

Storyline

When ants, displaying never-before-seen behavior, seize an island, the controversial Thorax Team is called to stop the massive threat only to discover that the ants are controlled by something beyond this world.

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Plot Keywords:

ant | alien

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 February 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Anazitoun ti sarka sas...

Filming Locations:

Krabi, Thailand

Company Credits

Production Co:

Thai Occidental Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

One of the team Thoax members yells about going to melt some endoskeletons, ants like most other insects have exoskeletons.

User Reviews

Ants in the Brain!

After watching a movie, I always like to take a moment to contemplate about what I've learned from my viewing. "The Hive" taught me that if ants would ever grow self-aware of their capacities and become more organized, the human race wouldn't stand a chance for survival. That is of course the case for every insect species on this planet, if you think about it. Well, except maybe for ladybugs, because what are they going to do? Cute us to death? "The Hive" is an almost entirely computer engineered and made-for-TV creature feature about killer ants, so you know to keep your expectations rather low. On a slightly more positive note, the plot here is most similar to the underrated 70's Sci-Fi/horror gem "Phase IV", and that just happens to be the best killer ant movie ever accomplished. That particular gem also presented the hypothesis that ants, suddenly and without apparent reason, began to control and develop their intelligence with disastrous consequences for mankind. In sheer contrast to "Phase IV", however, "The Hive" lacks any sense of subtlety and plausibility. There were the 70's movie was thought-provoking and genuinely disturbing, the development of the ants in this movie is just ludicrous and exaggeratedly blown out of proportions. Set in rural Thailand, an entire region is suddenly overrun by an enormous and aggressive colony of millions and millions of ants – even different subspecies are combining their forces – that in a very short time span devour harvests, cattle and even poor villagers. The ants structure their mobility, plan their attacks, learn to set death traps and even send a spy into the brain of a hired exterminator. Later on, they even build some sort of central computer entirely out of ants and generate their own electricity. How brilliant is that? The government hires the world famous Thorax extermination team. They wear cool outfits, drive in macho hummers and use highly advanced bazookas that disintegrate a couple of hundred ants at once. This still isn't efficient enough, though, so the team leader has to go to the ants' headquarters in an island cave and "negotiate" with them. Yes, that's exactly how retarded this movie is. But hey, no further complaints from my side regarding the film's entertainment factor. Any dumb horror movie that opens with a sequence in which a mother and her three-month old infant are savagely eaten by insects is guaranteed to enjoy my full attention. "The Hive" suffers from too many boring sequences and an overload of wannabe intellectual dialogs, but the ants attacks are campy good fun. Additional warning: don't sit around and wait to see the seemingly cute girl with the impressive rack that is illustrated on the DVD cover. She doesn't appear and the film and, in fact, it doesn't contain any sleaze or nudity whatsoever. Bummer!