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It's not enough to be a skyscraper in danger movie or an ants go berserk movie.
This is radioactive ants gone mad inside a skyscraper movie.
Fred Olen Ray has somehow talked C. Thomas Howell, Andrew Prine, Stella Stevens and Martin Kove, as well as several of his regulars and some newcomers to be in a movie where they crawl through air ducts and avoid ants the size of my chihuahua.
So yes, it's also Die Hard with some Empire of the Ants.
Is it a coincidence that Huff's character is a tech thief with a teenage daughter, which is pretty much Ant-Man, in a movie about ants?
The ants were made this way thanks to smuggled Iraqui plutonium and I wonder if some of that same radioactive material once sent a boy thirty years back in time. Are all movies in the same universe?
I wonder how badly Ray wanted to make the rooftop lingerie photoshoot somewhat sleazier.
I just wonder, are people looking for giant ant or disaster movies? Or was this shot in the office building that Ray once had that also may or may not have had entire families living apartment style in some of the offices? If you have the location, you're already saving money.
I wonder if Stella Stevens said anything like, "You know, when I did The Poseidon Adventure…"
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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dustin d
Glass Trap is a throwback to the old radioactive monster B-movies of the '50s. For the most part it does suspense right, and it balances humor with horror. The skeletons and ant-mangled bodies were cool, along with some of the other practical effects. Other times it looked too cartoony. The jokes were similarly unbalanced, with some genuine laughs, but many scoffs.
My main complaint about the movie is that it promised larger ants than it delivered. The ants are a few feet long, larger than the typical ant, for sure, but the radiation supposedly made the ants bigger with each generation, which were sped up as well. There is a giant nest of ant eggs in the basement of the building where most of the action is set, implying there would be exponentially larger ants in the final act. I was let down when the building just gets fumigated and the eggs never hatch.
I typically rate movies on a curve relative to other movies of its genre, but also considering overall quality. Glass Trap is entertaining enough for a "bad" movie, so I recommend it to anyone who is inebriated late at night and looking for something to watch and laugh at while shutting down the brain.
Side note, I didn't appreciate the depiction of ants in this movie. Most ants are good people. When I was a kid my dad, who is a kooky inventor, accidentally shrunk me and my siblings along with the neighbor kids with his experimental ray gun, and we got lost in the yard. We befriended a gigantic ant, which carried us back to the house. I wrote a screenplay about the experience, but it ended up infringing on a movie from 1989.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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Audience Member
Makes EMPIRE OF THE ANTS look like genius
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/20/23
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Unfortunately for the victims in the ''Glass Trap,'' C. Thomas Howell was fresh out of cans of rubber raid.
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02/23/23
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Delightfully preposterous, thank goodness the filmmakers had the sense to make it tongue in cheek. Stella Stevens is a hoot, she and the rest of the cast seem to have a good time making it. The plot is ridiculous, the special effects are poor but it is all done in such a fun, good natured way, it has some entertainment value.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
02/18/23
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41/100. Delightfully preposterous, thank goodness the filmmakers had the sense to make it tongue in cheek. Stella Stevens is a hoot, she and the rest of the cast seem to have a good time making it. The plot is ridiculous, the special effects are poor but it is all done in such a fun, good natured way, it has some entertainment value.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/30/23
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