🐜 Empire of the Ants (1977): Nature Strikes Back… On a Budget

In the grand cinematic pantheon of “giant animal attacks coastal real estate scam,” films—a surprisingly robust genre in the 1970s— Empire of the Ants scurries in as neither the worst nor the best, but certainly among the most radioactive. Directed, written, and special-effected (for better or worse) by B-movie monarch Bert I. Gordon, this 1977 offering hurls Joan Collins into the Everglades with…