Sean Crowley is your everyday, run of the mill, working class Joe just trying to make an honest living. One sunny California day while painting a vacant house he meets Duke (George Wendt). After shooting the shit, they part ways with a polite exchange of phone numbers with a possible work relationship in the future. Little did Sean know that acquaintance he made would change his life forever in an unspeakable way.

Duke introduces Sean to his boss Ray who is played by Daniel Baldwin. In a drunken state, Ray offers Sean $13,000 to kill a local government official in an effort to keep Rays profitable “business” up and running. This is were Stuart Gordon takes this interesting little tale down a trippy and brutal spiral of terror.

I first heard of this movie in Fangoria roughly a year before it's release. It sounded very promising and I was very much looking forward to it. I was not at all disappointed when I finally got a chance to catch this flick.

This movie takes little time to really get going and once it does, it is absolutely nonstop brutal imagery and unbridled horror till the credits roll. Sean is a very relatable character and Gordon really does a great job of making the viewer truly feel for the pain he's being put through during the movie. Truly disturbing stuff.

Not a whole lot of gore here, but I think the people behind the makeup effects of King of the Ants deserve a great deal of credit. Each day Sean's face turns more and more gruesome and it is very realistic.

No little story twist, no real horror clichés, no bullshit side-storylines. King of the Ants is very refreshing in today's horror scene. Also has one of the coolest box covers I’ve ever seen.

I highly recommend this film to any horror fan. Very little downtime, a great story, decent acting with very good dialog, a couple jaw dropping "what the fuck did I just see" moments make this one of my favorites.

9 out of 10 par 5's.