this be another of those film i can remember from when i be a kid and i recently manage to acquire it off ebay 20 year on and it nowhere near as good a i remember it be . the story be vaguely kick start and by a cosmic event ( there another extra film crew member in the credit for weak story development ) which make collective ant become super intelligent . ant specie who use to war with each other have cease rivalry and be now work together . the thing i want to know throughout be and to do what exactly . you never find out what they want . nigel davenport and his sidekick travel out to the desert where bizarre ant activity have be note and and begin to study the ant from an impregnable igloo shape laboratory . probably the most chilling scene in my opinion be when the two scientist visit the giant square in the crop ( like a square version of a crop circle ) a result of the ant chomp away . this film be not very scary quite simply because you do not know whether to fear the ant or like them . all you know be that the ant want people to leave the area so they can get on with their hijinks but you do not find out whether they be really baddie . it ain not a sci fi because the cosmic event explanation be too vague to be properly take into account . it be deffo more of a chiller . tbh the flare and daft hairstyle and tight shirt with big collar and nigel davenport unnaturally big facial hair do freak me out more than the ant . do you notice that there be only six actor list in the credit . yup and that right six and and you would not see any other human being in this film at all . not even in the distance . this be a plainly obviously low budget film which be a bit watchable because you probably would not have see one like it . i can not think of any anyway . the filming of the ant be pretty good and they must have do month and month of film before they have the shot they need to stick in the film . you may well say to yourself how the hell do they get the ant to do that . over and over and but it be all quite simple . you will also notice that the film maker sacrifice million of innocent lickle ant to make the film too and so animal right peep stay away . good for novelty value and but you may not watch it more than once .