Empire of the Ants
For they shall inherit the earth... sooner than you think!
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$500 000
Box office
$2 500 000
Director
Actors
Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott, Pamela Susan Shoop, Robert Pine, Edward Power, Brooke Palance, Tom Fadden
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Bert I. Gordon, Samuel Z. Arkoff
Camera operator
Reginald H. Morris
Composer
Dana Kaproff
Artist
Charles Rosen
Audition
Betty Martin
Editing
Michael Luciano
Whole Team (39)
Whole Team (39)
Short description
A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.
What's left behind the scenes
- Director, screenwriter, and producer Burt A. Gordon inserted enlarged images of the Paraponera clavata, or bullet ant – a common insect in Central and South America – into the film.
- As a promotional stunt, cinemas displayed ant farms in their lobbies.
- According to actress Pamela Susan Shoup, a fight broke out between the director and the sound engineer near the end of filming, and the latter was so angry that he threw all the audio recordings into a swamp. Everything was irrevocably lost. The sound had to be re-recorded, which is why the image and sound are not always perfectly synchronized.
- According to actress Joan Collins, the stunt doubles were late for the filming of the scene with the capsizing canoe, forcing the actors to perform the scene themselves. She was reluctant, but director Bert A. Gordon pressured her, and the actress had to comply. She was afraid that refusing would mean no further offers to appear in films.
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