Invicta (Video 2009)

Invicta: Directed by Carolyn Banks. With Matt Tramel, Jessica Gardner, Sam Damon, Dawn Erin. Love, greed and fire ants mix it up in rural Texas.

“KILLER ANTS (aka: INVICTA) opens with a young couple having their picnic ruined by the tiny, titular terrors. They also just happen to be warned about fire ants by a peculiar hillbilly.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLater, at a dinner party, the pair encounters more odd rustic types, who are having an ant problem of their own. Miraculously, a fire ant expert is on hand to talk about it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe couple winds up at a diner, where another ant specialist happens to be dining! My God! Is there nothing else in this town, aside from ants and those who study them?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAbsurd, inept, and so dull, as to cause our brains to dribble into our shoes, this movie goes out of its way to include fire ants in nearly every sentence of dialogue! Thereu0026#39;s even a crazy old lady who rants about fire ants like a religious nut!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhether itu0026#39;s viewed as a seriously unfunny comedy, or as an idiot horror movie, the result is the same: the desire to self-immolate.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhen the characters start -finally, blessedly!- dying, even thatu0026#39;s unbelievably boring! Watching this is like being staked to a fire ant mound, naked, while they sting and chew!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePerhaps thatu0026#39;s the effect the filmmakers were aiming at. If so… Bravo!…”