May 19 2012
TONIGHT at 10: EMPIRE OF THE ANTS
Filmreakter’s Cinélunatique presents “EMPIRE OF THE ANTS”
Saturday 19.05.2012 / 22h00
USA 1977 / Original version with french subtitles / 89’ / color / Directed by Bert I. Gordon / Starring: Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson / Based on H.G. Wells short story
Our trash offering of the month! « It’s no picnic » wrote The New York Times about this über-schlock extravaganza from Nature’s revenge specialist Bert I. Gordon. The story is highly complex, but we will try to summarize it for you nevertheless: ants eat radioactive waste on a Florida beach, they grow into huge ant-beasts and attack Joan Collins and a bunch of other people. The effects are a stroke of genius, like just about any other element of this mastercheese of a film. If you have a taste for trash, you’ll find this very nourishing indeed.
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Filmreakter’s Cinélunatique presents “EMPIRE OF THE ANTS”
Saturday 19.05.2012 / 22h00
USA 1977 / Original version with french subtitles / 89’ / color / Directed by Bert I. Gordon / Starring: Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson / Based on H.G. Wells short story
Our trash offering of the month! « It’s no picnic » wrote The New York Times about this über-schlock extravaganza from Nature’s revenge specialist Bert I. Gordon. The story is highly complex, but we will try to summarize it for you nevertheless: ants eat radioactive waste on a Florida beach, they grow into huge ant-beasts and attack Joan Collins and a bunch of other people. The effects are a stroke of genius, like just about any other element of this mastercheese of a film. If you have a taste for trash, you’ll find this very nourishing indeed.
