GLASS TRAP (2005)

GLASS TRAP (2005)

Tagline: There’s No Escape

(Adventure, Action, Giant Ants Will Eat Your Face) [PG-13] 

In this one, an army of radioactively enlarged ants gets brought into a skyscraper. It’s the weekend so relatively few people are there, but they are in for one crazy day as the ants start picking them off one by one. Can an x-con and a few office workers take on this unlikely menace and survive? 

First off there is some stuff in this movie that cracked me up, but not because it’s trying at least in some ways to be a comedy. Stella Stevens (whose last movie had a giant snake “Megaconda”) for instance plays a bossy magazine editor who comes across as completely mean, but also manages to be hilariously resourceful at times and almost duplicitous when it comes to her temperament towards her assistant Sharon (played by Siri Baruc who seems to have stopped acting in 2013, but was also in a movie with a giant snake “Mega Snake”). Sharon is a likable character as is Curtis (played by C. Thomas Howell who is one of those actors that has been in everything but you just didn’t know it). This chemistry pushes the story forward when the focus isn’t on the ridiculously terrible-looking CGI or prop ants. I’m sorry out of all the giant ant movies I’ve reviewed, these damn things look like they took the least amount of effort when you get to the close-ups. 

Anyway, Whitney Sloan is also in this as Carly, and her father plays a big role in the side plot of this movie. Whitney is probably most famous for being in the Disney movie GO FIGURE but only has 2 more acting credits after this movie. We also get a pretty funny or at least intriguing Martin Kove sighting. Kove’s role in this movie isn’t that huge, but most people probably know him as John Kreese from the KARATE KID series and the corresponding COBRA KAI TV show.   

Plot-wise it feels like at least the origin of these ants was almost directly ripped from BLUE MONKEY, but oddly neither film really does a decent job at all, of explaining the biology or origin of these giant ants. You know what, I really don’t give a crap. I love this kind of stuff and GLASS TRAP as poorly acted and as nuts as it is at times, finds a way to be pretty freakin fun. 

Overall GLASS TRAP is NOT a masterpiece by any means but it deserves its spot among the great giant ant films. Wait…. you say there are only like 6 or 7 of them… 

Well… hmmm. Now that statement sounds dumb. Come into this expecting low budget SyFy channel from the early 2000’s type stuff and this is going to be a fairly good time.  For most this will be a 3 or 4 out of 7, but for me personally, I am bumping it up to a 5. It’s really entertaining if you walk in with b-movie expectations. 

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