Love, greed and fire ants mix it up in rural Texas.Love, greed and fire ants mix it up in rural Texas.Love, greed and fire ants mix it up in rural Texas.
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- TriviaRed imported fire ants, though they are plentiful in Texas, were not used in this movie. Instead, whenever live ants are used, Harvester ants stood in. "It's hard to procure fire ants," director Carolyn Banks explains, "but Harvester ants, which are often fed to pet lizards, are available online." She adds that Harvester ants have a powerful sting, "but unlike fire ants, they don't all sting you at the same time."
- ConnectionsReferences Deliverance (1972)
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Written and performed by Adyel Silva & Renato Consorte
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KILLER ANTS (aka: INVICTA) opens with a young couple having their picnic ruined by the tiny, titular terrors. They also just happen to be warned about fire ants by a peculiar hillbilly.
Later, at a dinner party, the pair encounters more odd rustic types, who are having an ant problem of their own. Miraculously, a fire ant expert is on hand to talk about it.
The couple winds up at a diner, where another ant specialist happens to be dining! My God! Is there nothing else in this town, aside from ants and those who study them?
Absurd, inept, and so dull, as to cause our brains to dribble into our shoes, this movie goes out of its way to include fire ants in nearly every sentence of dialogue! There's even a crazy old lady who rants about fire ants like a religious nut!
Whether it's viewed as a seriously unfunny comedy, or as an idiot horror movie, the result is the same: the desire to self-immolate.
When the characters start -finally, blessedly!- dying, even that's unbelievably boring! Watching this is like being staked to a fire ant mound, naked, while they sting and chew!
Perhaps that's the effect the filmmakers were aiming at. If so... Bravo!...
Later, at a dinner party, the pair encounters more odd rustic types, who are having an ant problem of their own. Miraculously, a fire ant expert is on hand to talk about it.
The couple winds up at a diner, where another ant specialist happens to be dining! My God! Is there nothing else in this town, aside from ants and those who study them?
Absurd, inept, and so dull, as to cause our brains to dribble into our shoes, this movie goes out of its way to include fire ants in nearly every sentence of dialogue! There's even a crazy old lady who rants about fire ants like a religious nut!
Whether it's viewed as a seriously unfunny comedy, or as an idiot horror movie, the result is the same: the desire to self-immolate.
When the characters start -finally, blessedly!- dying, even that's unbelievably boring! Watching this is like being staked to a fire ant mound, naked, while they sting and chew!
Perhaps that's the effect the filmmakers were aiming at. If so... Bravo!...
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