Joan Collins is Marilyn Fraser, an aggresive land developer trying to turn a swampy island into an exclusive residential community, her builders rupture a can of atomic waste (ooh, that can't be good!) that has washed ashore. A colony of ants feasts on the substance, and before you know it they have grown into voracious monsters with heightened intelligence and cunning. The night of Marilyn's gala opening arrives, and the ants are ready. With a vicious persistence, the monsters attack the guests, cutting off their only means of escape. From here on it gets very bizarre, it seems that these ants are not your ordinary overgrown flesh-eating kind of ants, they have the ability to control human minds. Confused?, you see it's obvious: the queen ant sprays chemicals that forces people to submit to her will. Well, to make a long story short, one of the humans kills of the queen ant and burns down the refinery where the ants hang out. The end.

Empire of the ants is an ecological disaster flick where everyone is annoying and actually deserves to be eaten by giant ants, but if you like crappy not-so special effects it has lotsa cheap laughs.

Investigation finished: 2001-11-05

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Story: 2/10 - Nothing really adds up here, and there's too little mayhem.

Acting: 0/10 - The acting is of the best forgotten sort.

Violence: 1/10 - Violence means that you have to have special effects, and the used up the budget on rubber ants.

Nudity: 0/10 - Nooooo, it's Joan Collins for christ sakes!

Coolness: 4/10 - Anyone who releases a movie this bad with a straight face is cool in my book!

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