Horror movies dealing with bugs can make your skin crawl. I've seen a lot of those types of movies. Some like spiders,roaches, and other household pests make you want to buy bug sprays. In "Ants", it makes you want to buy a lifetime supply of it. Here you have a construction crew working near an old hotel making an expansion to the place, and they get visited by an unscrupulous real estate magnate (Gerald Gordon) to buy the land so he can build a casino. However, unknown to the proprietor(Myrna Loy), they have a bigger problem. It's not the magnate, it's a pest problem that is nightmarish from the start. Earlier, two workers are in the pit, one gets bitten by the ants, and are accidentally buried by the loader. Normally, ant bites are not dangerous, but the ants here have became immune to pesticides due to years of exposure. After the deaths of the workers and the hotel chef, immediate action is taken. Since ants are smart enough to build bridges, everyone build a trench and fill it with gasoline, because they can't go through fire. Other non flying bugs could ever get over water. "Kingdom of the Spiders" was scary, "Bug" was scary, "Ants" was a little subtle. It can happen to anyone, and it might make someone to become an exterminator. All you need is research. 3.5 out of 5 stars.
