The Hive

2008 "Death is Their Picnic"
3.2| 1h30m| en
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When ants, displaying never-before-seen behavior, seize an island, the controversial Thorax Team is called in to stop the massive threat, only to discover that the ants are controlled by something beyond this world.

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Thai Occidental Productions

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Also starring Kal Weber

Also starring Elizabeth Healey

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Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
Zoooma This may have been independently financed and then picked up for broadcast on the Syfy Channel or Syfy is totally guilty of paying to produce this dreck. But then what else do you expect from Syfy? The story here is about an elite group of exterminators who are called in to get a pretty serious infestation taken care of. Ants swarm, they kill people and they are smart enough to actually hold people hostage. Ay caramba. Poor Tom Wopat (Luke Duke) -- he must need money or something to have signed on to be in this. Terrible acting, terrible writing, total junk! Out of 96 movies I watched from January 1st to April 12th in 2013, this was the third worst! 2.8 / 10 stars --Zoooma, a Kat Pirate Screener
Boba_Fett1138 This movie is for some part being a good and enjoyable senseless movie, that really isn't half as bad as you beforehand would expect but it takes some seriously wrong turns toward the end.I was really liking this movie went it was being simply a killer animals against humans movie. But the movie must have thought that this wasn't being anything good enough, so they actually decided to throw in a plot, involving the ants getting extraordinarily smart and try to communicate and negotiate with humans to get what they want. As ridicules as the movie already was at its beginning, it at least was still something I could accept. I simply took the movie as some mindless fun but the movie was simply pushing its luck and really going too far with its ridiculousness and story. And it's not like this movie is being a comedy, even though it might sound that way, the way I'm describing things. The movie is really being death serious, which only makes things all the more ridicules.It also certainly doesn't help that the movie is featuring some extremely bad spacial effects. All the more ridicules and bad is the way its getting used. Seriously, this movie really didn't needed much special effects but at times they really try desperately to impress you with it all which, needless to say, just never is the case. Especially the ending was ridiculously bad, when the gloves really seemed to come off.It's also a movie that runs out of steam half way through. It's hard to keep your interest in this movie. Luckily the movie isn't being anything too long to watch.I was willing to let lots of this movie its ridiculousness slip, until things were simply getting too crazy and unconvincing. Still I have to say that as far as these low budget killer animal movies go; there are far worse ones to watch out there.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
atoner69 Bad, bad, bad. And worse! This flimsy piece of Sci-Fi wish-wash is so contemptuously awful, I could not suffer to watch it all. After forty minutes of mind-numbing banality, I was forced to switch it off. So where did it go wrong? My timer indicated 00:00:30. For a start the acting was so lame, in some scenes (notably the party scene,) not even a vet could have saved it. The CGI was quite possibly the worst set of special effects ever to have inflicted itself onto my screen. Perhaps if I'd watched it through a woolly sock after rubbing olbas oil into my eyeballs it might have looked half decent, but I'm not going to give it the satisfaction. The plot I can't really comment on as I was fortunate enough to stop it in its tracks. However, I can say that the first forty minutes that I did see must have been written on the back of a napkin, and then accidentally washed. The script must have been on the other side. It was so jam-packed with pointless rhetoric and hackneyed clichés that the six or seven lines that did try to drive the plot must have had delusions of adequacy. My verdict: Maybe this was meant for the ants to enjoy. That said, though, if I was an ant, I'd rather find a magnifying glass on a sunny day.
kiawa77 Bad acting. Bad voice-overs. Bad cuts to commercial. Bad plot. Totally predictable (I called "the big ant" in the first 5 minutes). I kept watching, as we all do, to see if there will be some kind of redeemable ending. There wasn't. So I guess an alien came here to control the ants to take over an island. OKAY... If the alien had so much power to control ants, then why stop at a third-world country's island? And why use *ants*??? Use PEOPLE... but that's already been done.This movie is among the worst I've seen lately on Sci-Fi. I see no "cult status" in this flick's future. Each step of this movie was almost completely predictable for this genre's fans. Nothing about it is artful, interesting, or even insightful. Even if the spraying-of-the-chemical thing was supposed to be a jab at anti-environmentalists, it was weak. The whole movie was lame and just plain boring.Sorry to say, but don't waste your time. But at the VERY end, the ants were rebuilding their computer, so maybe there will be a stunning sequel...PS: I give this a 2 instead of a 1 because bugs in your ear is indeed the stuff of nightmares, and that will probably stick with most of us!