Phase IV

1974

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 65% · 18 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 10681 10.7K

insect ant murder scientist desert based on short story

Director

Saul Bass Photo
Saul Bass

Top cast

Michael Murphy Photo
Michael Murphy as James R. Lesko
Helen Horton Photo
Helen Horton as Mildred Eldridge
Robert Henderson Photo
Robert Henderson as Clete
Lynne Frederick Photo
Lynne Frederick as Kendra Eldridge
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705.05 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 8
1.33 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 31

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MCMCMLXX 7 / 10

David Attenborough goes berserk!

Comment not review-More than anything, Phase IV is a masterpiece in cinematography. The small scaled shots of ants is amazing. The colours and and surroundings with different types of filming - from time lapse to micro - is fascinating. It is carefully manufactured to showcase the talents of the technical aspects of film making - and the characters are secondary but fun.Fun because they just do what they are just plonked in the picture to do. No fuss. Someone gets bitten and goes crazy. The formulae is familiar but the photography wins the day.Just watch the positioning of the camera from the car pulling up, the desert landscapes, the isolation, the horror of carcasses being destroyed by ants. ...Hooray for the ants. Hooray for this film. Hooray it ain't on anyone's top ten but mine...
Reviewed by AaronCapenBanner 7 / 10

Strikingly Weird Film.

Michael Murphy and Nigel Davenport play two scientists studying the recent peculiar behavior of ants after a strange outer space phenomenon has occurred. They rescue a young woman(played by Lynne Frederick) who has survived an ant attack that destroyed her family and farm. Seems the(normal) sized ants have evolved into a collective intelligence, and are studying them as well, in the next step of mutual evolution...Weird(to say the least)film is nonetheless quite original and intelligent; seems to be partially inspired by "2001: A Space Odyssey", and though not a masterpiece, still contains some quite striking visual imagination and ambition(courtesy of director Saul Bass) and a mind-bending ending that gives much to ponder. A thought-provoking Sci-Fi film that deserves to be better known.
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