When a ship containing radioactive barrels are dumped into the ocean, trouble begins. The barrels wash ashore, and start to leak. The next day a group of tourists arrive to take a tour to see a new land development. Little do they know that this tour is nothing but a rip-off. The land developer is Marilyn Fryser(Joan Collins). She is nothing more than a snake in the grass. She is nothing but a money grabbing sleaze. The land is nothing but empty promises, filled with fake construction work. Once the group arrives they take a tour of the Island. When couple starts to look around, they are attacked by these huge ants. The group wonder where they could have wondered off to, but nobody knows. So, everyone starts to look around for them. That's when people notice these huge ants, and in order to survive they have to get off the Island. Some soon become prey, while others are able to escape. They find the local sheriff and tell him what is going on. Unknown to the others, he is aware of the problem. When the survivors get to the sugar refinery, they realize what all the secrecy is about. I am surprised by the low rating this movie got. I thought it was kind of cool, but I'm a sucker for movies about radiated bugs. This movie also stars Robert Pine( Chips) and Pamela Shoop( Halloween 2).

This is a very scary movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. It is scarier then The Exorcist. And that is not easy to do. This is a great movie. I do not know why people give it a 4. It is not a 4. It is a 10. See it. If you like good horror movies you will like this movie. It is very scary. If this movie does not scary you no movie will. Do not watch this movie alone. It is very scary. Great movie great movie great movie. John David Carson was a great actor. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street and that is not easy to do.

It is absolutely mind blowing to me that this movie is averaging a 4.4 rating. It came out when I was 11 in 1977; it was great and we still lived in an age where we didn't realize how silly the whole thing looked. I showed my son who is 29 and though he laughed, he understands the limitations from that time. If you're going to watch this for the first time, try to watch with all the above in mind. And enjoy!!!!

Oh my, where to begin. You'd think with the passing of almost two decades since 1959's "Them", special effects technology would have made a dramatic improvement in presenting giant insects on the big screen. After all, "Star Wars" came out in 1977 too. Alas, not to be.After all this time this is the first Joan Collins movie I've ever seen and it was a kick watching her try to peddle worthless swamp land to a group of unsuspecting potential buyers. Now I know where the Kardashian look originated, just get a good eyeful of Collins' makeup and hair and you can see how that whole style evolved into the present century. But this wasn't a glam picture, when Collins' character Marilyn Fryser states that the properties at Dreamland Shores are offered on a first come, first serve basis, you had to know that that's exactly what the giant mutant ants were thinking.The movie is a treasure trove of continuity gaffes and editing mistakes that make an already dumb picture even dumber. For example, right after the downpour, all the folks on the real estate tour caught in the rain are miraculously dry again. Then after the march through the swamp, alternating scenes have Marilyn's white skirt going from soiled to completely clean to dirty again. Even better than that though, during the battle with the ants at the sugar refinery, Joan Collins' character is shown outside with the others who have escaped and then she's back in the glass chamber with the queen ant again! After a while it begins to look like this was all done on purpose, and maybe it was - who knows? You know, I couldn't help thinking that this movie could have been a whole lot better, even if nothing else was changed but to make it in glorious black and white. Then it might have ranked right up there with some of the other great mutant flicks of the late Fifties - "Them", "The Killer Shrews", "The Giant Gila Monster" and the granddaddy of them all - "Godzilla".But then, on second thought - Nah!