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Phase IV is a 1974 science-fiction horror film directed by graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass, and written by Mayo Simon, inspired by H. G. Wells's 1905 short story "Empire of the Ants".
The ants begin to emerge, attacking a boy, then killing a hotel cook, and nearly killing Vince as he and Mike investigate the pit in which their men were buried. Peggy Kenter ( Anita Gillette ), a Board of Health (BOH) inspector and an acquaintance of Carr's, decides to quarantine the hotel, thinking a virus is at work.
The Ant Bully (2006) - ants; Maya The Bee Movie (2014) - bees and others; Ants in the Plants (1940) - ants in a Fleischer Color Classics short; Antz (1998) - ants and others; Bee Movie (2007) - bees and others; James and the Giant Peach (1996) - grasshopper, centipede, spider, others; Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen (2007) - spiders
The unique "sound" of the ants devouring everything in their path was created by swirling a straw in a glass of water with crushed ice, which was then amplified. Much of the Rio Negro (Amazon) jungle riverscape, as well as the bridge dynamiting and sluice scenes, are second-unit stock footage shot in Florahome, Florida .
The Hive is an American 2008 science fiction made-for-television film set in Thailand, directed by Peter Manus and written by T. S. Cook.Starring Tom Wopat, Kal Weber and Mark Ramsey, the film follows a group of scientists who must stop a swarm of man-eating ants feeding on the population, but eventually discover that something was controlling the ants.
"The Empire of the Ants" is a 1905 short story by H. G. Wells about the littleness of humanity and the tenuousness of the dominion Homo sapiens enjoys on Earth. A 1977 film, Empire of the Ants , was loosely based on Wells' story.
It's harmless in its dumbness, painless in its 'gee, get a load of these fake ants we whipped up' presentation. But it's not very entertaining, either." [ 2 ] Chris Hartley from Video Graveyard gave the film 1.5 out of 4 stars, criticizing the film's dialogue, weak special effects, and poor attempts at humor. [ 3 ]
In The Ant and the Grasshopper, a grasshopper squanders the spring and summer months on singing while the ants put food away for the winter; when winter comes, the hungry grasshopper begs the ants for food, but the ants turn him away. [9] Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft hit on the notion that the grasshopper could just take the food.