Empire of the Ants (1977) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - June 12, 1977

While I may not have been the most studious of biblical readers, I do know that it is supposed to be the meek who are supposed to inherit the Earth. After everyone else kills each other off, or the Rapture, or... you know what, never mind. Forget about it.

The ad campaign image for Bert I Gordon's The Food of the Gods, which was released the previous year, scared the snot out of me. This one, not so much.

While I would have liked to have been able to see it on the big screen, that was not to be. I did not see either The Food of the Gods or Empire of the Ants until they 'premiered' on Channel 7's The 3:30 Movie program. Something that necessitated the film's being trimmed down to a brisk 75 minutes, so that 15 minutes of commercials could also be broadcast in that 90-minute weekday afternoon time slot.

While I was gobsmacked at how silly they turned out to be, I also have never, ever been bored while watching them. They are tasty slices of the silliest kind of cinematic cheese.