empire of the ant be a very bad film from veteran bad film maker bert i gordon . bert i rely on his usual formula of combine size change with an h. g. well story to make a quick buck . i be sure that at one time these special effect be consider state of the art and but for god sake he be use the same damn technique since 1956. i be no expert in the world of trick photography and but still there have to have be some advance between attack of the puppet people and empire of the ant . to boot and all of bert i special effect involve make thing large or small . what the hell bert . didn not you learn how to do anything else in film school . you can only remake the same damn movie so many time . here the plot and or lack there of . joan collins lead a group of prospective buyer on a cruise to a piece of swamp land that be go to be develop into condo . the group have the typical monster movie stereotype while the salty sea captain and the unfaithful husband and the old folk who be just along for the ride and etc . they find a group of giant ant who proceed to devour some of the passenger . the survivor find a town where the inhabitant be brainwash by ant pheromone and feed refine sugar to the ant . pretty simple huh . the acting be ok and but besides that the movie just kind of sucked . bert i and i be glad that you have stop make film .