Robert Foxworth plays construction crew foreman Mike Carr, who discovers a horde of poisonous killer ants after two of his men are attacked while working in a pit being dug near an old-fashioned hotel, the Lakewood Manor, which soon thereafter becomes the last refuge of him and a few other people trapped there as the ant army advances upward and onwards....how can they be stopped before they reach the top floor, where they will be trapped? Brian Dennehy and Suzanne Somers costar in this TV movie that remains watchable, with some suspense, but a story that is still quite clichéd and predictable; at least the ants were normal-sized for a change!
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A lakeside resort comes under attack by a seemingly infinite hoard of flesh-eating ants.
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Ants From A Pit
Ants in their pants
A lot of familiar faces show up in this made for television film about a colony of
ants who get mighty upset with humankind around Myrna Loy's resort hotel
where there's some construction going on under the stewardship of foreman
Robert Foxworth. This films teaches us that when Ants get disturbed they can
really cause havoc.
I remember back in good old Fort Polk almost 50 years ago I put my hand on a
nest of Ants and got some bites for my trouble. With what Foxworth and Lynda Day George go through in the end I hope their paychecks cleared before
filming that last rescue scene.
You have to be an insect lover or a stargazer to appreciate this film. What was
Myrna Loy thinking? I guess she saw a lot of her contemporaries go the horror
and science fiction route. But this is definitely no Whatever Happened To Baby Jane. Louis B. Mayer never gave her a film like this.
A pretty creepy & effective 70's made-for-TV killer animal fright flick
This nicely creepy and enjoyable 70's made-for-TV killer animal horror item centers on a nest of lethal and poisonous ants which are unearthed by a construction crew working on a posh lakeside resort. The ants proceed to attack a few folks and trap a handful of others inside. Among those trapped in the resort are feisty elderly owner Myrna Loy, her comely daughter Lynda Day George (who also dealt with a larger array of deadly critters in "Day of the Animals"), rugged construction foreman Robert Foxworth (who later faced off with a murderous misshapen mutant bear in "Prophecy"), jerky sleazeball businessman Gerald Gordon and his lovely partner Suzanne Sommers of "Three's Company" sitcom fame, health inspector Steve Franken, and sexy drifter Karen Lamm. Trying to rescue the people trapped inside are construction worker Bernie Casey and fire chief Brian Dennehy. Capably directed by Robert Scheerer, with a tight script by Guerdon Trueblood (who wrote "Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo" the same year), several truly skin-crawling ant attack scenes (the sequence where Sommers gets munched is a definite highlight, plus a little boy has a close call with the ants as well), a nice snappy pace, and uniformly sound acting from a fine cast, this baby makes for a most satisfying and occasionally harrowing little scarefest.