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!...