The Hive

The Hive introduces us to Team Thorax - a professional extermination crew charged with taking care of ant swarms in what a "news feature" at the start of the movie describes as a "S.E. Asian island." The blurb on the DVD cover art states this takes place in Brazil - I'm not sure how whoever wrote that came up with Brazil. This film was clearly made in Thailand, as was a similar feature included in the Maneater Series called Croc. In any case, Team Thorax walk around in containment suits with the company's logo and shoot pulse weapons at swarms of ants, incinerating them with some kind of incorporated pesticide. Oh yes, the team leader also drives around in a monstrous-sized SUV with the company's logo emblazoned on it. They look like a cross between a Hazmat team and the Ghostbusters.
In conjunction with the local army, Team Thorax tries to save the local villages from one of the largest swarms of ants they've ever encountered. These ants are intelligent and deadly, and apparently governed by some kind of glowing thing that fell from the sky. They eat the flesh off of people in a flash, but they also take hostages and negotiate with humans (yes, you read that correctly). Such an uncanny foe leads Team Thorax's leader Len (Kal Weber) to call up help from his ex-girlfriend and ex-hiking partner Claire (Elizabeth Healey), who happens to also be an ant expert. And, as often happens in the middle of killer creature movies, Len and Claire find the opportunity to rekindle their romantic affections for one another.
Whoo boy. Even by Sci Fi Channel standards, this one's really far-fetched. The acting is atrocious. The dialogue stilted. The special effects laughable. The director's usage of the zoom repetitive. The Hive offers up flame throwers, fleeing villagers, and fake tech left and right. The local army runs around a lot, and Team Thorax gets to shoot their cannons quite a bit. It's all really bad, but it somehow works. Most of these Sci Fi Channel productions get bogged down with unconvincing character interactions and routine scripts. The Hive, on the other hand, goes all out on the ridiculous scale and keeps things moving along with a lot of action.
Director: Peter Manus Writer: T.S. Cook (writer) Release Date: 17 February 2008 (USA) Genre: Sci-Fi Starring: Elizabeth Healey, Mark Ramsey, Jessica Reavis, Kal Weber, Tom Wopat Directed by: Peter Manus
Comments:
This was B-rate movie, just as I had suspected. I took a gamble watching it and what can I say ... "I LOST". Throughout the entire movie I was longing for the end credits to roll. LOL! No one could act in this movie, although Elizabeth Healey was pleasant to look at, but her looks could not rescue this film. I was hoping to see a film that would rival Joan Collins' "Empire of the Ants", yet instead, I saw a film that failed to use today's modern special effects to make the killer ants look real. Tedricol

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[magikmalick]

00:33 OK, all right, I'm dead...

[Hetcaeson12]

holy crap the lady that trip and die by 900 ants or more!

[rhinomantis88]

Im still going there on vacation!

[jasontrail]

she was too tired to even move.  byt the way i dont understand how they invest money in shit shitty movies :(

[CRAZYKING38]

aall we need here is the honey badger

[NIGELP520]

LMAO @ 0:30 the lady is gettign eaten by ants yet theres people still running over them

[mcsilentsun]

WHAT IS THIS SHIT????

[silverclawedwolf]

@joefren21 yes

[atracaelo]

bad special effects and a physical imposibility: ant cannot run so fast

[joefren21]

Hey! what's the title of that movie? is it really "The Hive?"

[KinectArt]

Lol no ants got on her arm yet it still turned to bone.