There are a minimum of 5 films and two TV sequence that proportion the name “Marabunta,” or military ant, a moniker given to masses of various species of ant. For the needs of this text, the “Marabunta” in query is the 1998 TV-movie, additionally identified via a number of alternative names together with “Legion of Hearth,” “Killer Ants,” and “Terror in Burly Pines.”
Why such a lot of name adjustments? The entire higher to repackage a complete turkey. “Marabunta” targets for territory someplace in the community of the 1954 action-adventure “The Bare Jungle” (which is ALSO referred to as “Marabunta”), with South American ants laying waste to a small fishing village in Alaska. Sadly, its objectives are a long way loftier than its funds will permit: the ants’ trail of destruction is relegated to a few gooey skeletons, together with that of pre-fame Patrick Fugit as the city bully, whilst the overall answer to the ant drawback — the city is flooded when the native dam is destroyed — is performed with shoddy fashions.
The solid, which incorporates TV vets Eric Lutes and Mitch Pileggi, has little to do however does what it might with the restricted subject matter and plothole-ridden script. They do set up to stay a instantly face when informed how the ants were given from South The usa to Alaska — on a cruise send, like vacationers.