The main female lead in this movie has a pouch... Yep... That pretty much summs it up... Glorious!

That was one of the most glorious B movies I've ever seen. Featuring such “stars” as Annie McEnroe, Reb Brown, Marsha A. Hunt, and Sybil Danning this movie is a must see... assuming you like B movies. As far as I am concerned it’s almost as good as Shark Attack III.

It has everything B movie fans are looking for – wooden acting, bizarre plot twists, cutting-edge horror concepts (some werewolves cannot be killed with silver – only titanium), eastern-European locations, exploding dwarves, gratuitous nudity (including one shot that was repeated 17(!) times in a roll during the end credits), werewolf mating scenes and even a werewolf orgy, swipe-cuts between loosely related scenes, multiple flashbacks to the beginning of the movie, and of course Christopher Lee.

Most importantly – the movie is unintentionally funny enough to keep you awake, unlike many other movies made on a shoe-string budget…

P.S.
The soundtrack was actually quite good; I wish the theme song wasn’t repeated 10 times during the movie, but other than that – good job. I also think that the movie was photographed quite well it was just edited in a really bizarre manner.

A very good B Movie with very decent actors (many recognizable faces) and surprisingly decent special effects. Really it’s one of my recent favorites. My only complain is that it is could have been just a little bit more campy and just a little more gory. Basically if it was just a little bit more like the Evil Dead – it would only be more awesome… But I guess they wanted a PG-13 rating… I also liked the alternative ending more…

 

Overall - it’s a must see for any B Movie lover… Here is a little taste of the movie for you, courtesy of YouTube:

Not anything special, but not so bad either. It’s clearly a B movie, with OK special effects, OK and only slightly stretched storyline, typically bad dialogue and underdeveloped characters, and lots of female nudity. Natasha Henstridge’s breasts were pretty much the main character of the movie. Tired of simply showing the plain old boobs, the director (screenplay writer? special effects supervisor?) invented “boobtacles”, the boob tentacles, which the alien used to choke its victims. I have to admit that this trick turned out to be pretty funny.
In my opinion, one of the main problems with the majority of exploitation sci-fi movies is not the presence of female nudity, but complete absence of male nudity. It just doesn’t seem fair... The idea that only straight teenage male nerds like sci-fi is ridiculous, but that seems to be the general misconception. I think all B movie directors should learn from “Alien.” The movie doesn’t need a bad-ass male protagonist to be appealing to males. And if the movie actually does feature an ass-kicking female protagonist, she doesn’t need to have oversized secondary sexual characteristics to be worshipped by millions of sci-fi fans (both male and female).
Conclusion: Either show less boobs – it’s distracting and unnecessary, or show more penises, that would at least make it less sexist.

Cheesy special effects – $10,000
Ridiculous dialogue – Free
B movie actors - $50,000
DVD copy of “Jaws” - $19.99
Roundtrip Tickets to Bulgaria for the whole crew - $10,000
Excellent B movie – PRICELESS!

This post has been long overdue...
To say that this is the best B movie ever created is to say nothing. Movies simply don’t get any more B than this. It is so over the top it beats Scarface. Where is MST3K when you need them..?

Here are some of my favorite lines:
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Chuck Rampart: Always carry a spare. It's the NAVY way!
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Esai 'Sy': You're going to get us into trouble. Again!
Ben Carpenter: Look, don't worry about it.
Esai 'Sy': Again!
Ben Carpenter: I said don't worry about it.
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Ben Carpenter: Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha! That cable is history!
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And of course the unforgettable pick-up line that works like magic every single time:
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Cataline Stone: [sigh] I'm exhausted.
Ben Carpenter: Yeah, me too. But you know I'm really wired. What do you say I... take you home and eat your pussy.
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Now go here and buy this movie. Do it now!!!

I’ve mentioned before that I really like B movies. However I like them for different reasons. Some good B movies are nothing more than blunt rip-offs of the main stream Hollywood movies, in which case they might be cheesy, funny, bizarre, and most importantly entertaining. Shark Attack 2 and 3 are good examples of this type.

Another type of good B movies includes the ones that are simply more creative and ballsy than your typical cliché Hollywood big budget production. The directors of this type of B movies movies do not have giant-super-studio executives breathing down their necks, downgrading their movies to PG-13, leaving the most interesting stuff on the cutting room floor, and turning the movies into little more than sound monetary investments. This type of B movies is what moves the cinematography forward, one little step at a time... “King of the Ants” is a wonderful example of that.

It’s hard to categorize this movie. It’s part film noir, part action thriller, part (pitch) black comedy, part horror movie of the “Wolf Creek” or “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” type. Sure, like many B movies it has its fair share of T&A, however it never turned into a fully fledged exploitation movie, and Kari Wuhrer’s boobs never disrupted the overall existentialist mood of the film. The acting was above par, and I was extremely happy with everyone's performance. Dialogue was a little uneven - not always perfect and even a little cheesy at times, but at other times it was truly excellent, realistic, and even bizarre, in the very best meaning of this word.

I don’t want to spoil it for anybody and not going to recap the plot of this movie, but I do want to mention a few things that really made this movie to become one of my all time favorites:

Murder is excellently portrayed in all of its banality. The murder scene is simply stunning. The ease with which the murder is often portrayed in the movies nowadays might contribute to the ease with which adults and teenagers pick up a weapon and kill someone nowadays. In “King of Ants,” on the other hand, the murder is portrayed not as something evil, or horrifying, but extremely prosaic, absurd, and yet extremely WRONG.
The protagonist was not pictured in simple black and white, and I couldn’t help but sympathize with him and hate him at the same time...
Hallucinations of the protagonist were also extremely realistic. I was unfortunate enough to experience hallucinations of my own a few years ago, and I must tell you that “King of Ants” made them look so natural they could have easily been the products of my own delirium tremens.

Overall, the existentialist message and amazing realism are the two main reasons why this movie has become one of my favorites. And I highly recommend this movie to everyone. A word of warning – the movie is extremely graphic and at times gory. If you think you can stomach it – watch it. Otherwise, you might be better off reading the book instead.

I love B movies. And I think that everybody should see this quintessential example thereof.

Here are a few reasons why:

1) When the shark was escaping from the aquarium it was obviously a plastic toy (!) shark shot from above. I think it was a bold move on behalf of the director. I mean – c’mon – it was really, really obvious.

2) There was a tribute shot with zoom-in-track-back virtually identical to the famous shot in Jaws. In this version of the famous shot, a muscular stud replaced Roy Scheider, and (after the zoom-in-track-back action) instead of helping people out of the water he seemingly pointlessly (!) rode a water bike among the sharks for a few minutes and even rammed the water bike into the shark for no apparent reason. It was glorious.

3) At one point the town mayor asks the hero if he knows what to do about the shark. The hero answers that he has a plan. Next shot – the hero is drinking with his buddies (mixing liquor and beer!) Now that’s a great plan. Now that’s my type of action hero!

4) The sharks in this movie growl. Yes, you heard me – they growl like rabid dogs. And if this fact alone is not a good enough reason to see this movie then my name isn’t Ash and I am not a slave.