此片改编自1979年出版的畅销恐怖小说『Ghost Story』, 作者是彼德. 史特劳博, 当时被誉为极具古典风的爱伦坡歌德文体, 书中描述的古典风格, 以及复古的'30年代场景, 让读者为之神往。而在1981年上映这部电影, 场景皆已完美呈现。此片也是好莱坞传奇的舞王: 佛雷亚斯坦（Fred Astaire）之遗作四个从小一起长大的老头子, 在年轻时便组了「海鲜浓汤协会」，溺水在冬天的夜晚聚在一起喝白兰地、溺水四人轮流讲鬼故事，多年来不曾改变。但在某个冬夜，自从一件意外发生後, 四个老人便开始面临如同无底深渊似的恐惧。艾德华的儿子大卫身亡後，双胞胎弟弟唐尼返家安慰老父，当他回到这个冰天雪地的新英格兰小镇时，却面临了父亲也意外丧命的惨剧，重重疑云油然而起....唐尼认为这个四人团体, 并不是单纯说鬼故事而已，为了找出答案, 便代替父亲加入,他认为父兄的死, 及三位叔伯莫名的恐惧，跟他的前女友爱玛极其相关，他加入海鲜浓汤协会後, 必须付出什麽惨痛的代价？在这个阴风阵阵的冰天雪地小镇里,究竟藏着什麽秘密？
回复 :"四百多年后，地球人口超载，科学家制造了""南国之子""号宇宙飞船将过剩人口送往其它星球。但是，一连串的死亡事件打乱了人们平淡的旅途生活。首先是飞船的鱼蛇战队成员工执行任务的归途中除队长戴维外全部遇难。不久，监报员史蒂夫和莱蒙德上尉也相继死亡。尺船司令官丹尼尔委派戴维去调查，丹尼尔的女儿丽爱慕英勇机智的戴维，一同前往。他们查到飞船的第一执法官卡尔干与总工程师马克秘密勾结，..
回复 :Martijn visits, after several years without contact, his sister Daantje. Daantje, just started to live on her own in Amsterdam. He tells her he is going to make a documentary from Daantje's live. Martijn enters her live with a videocamera. This creates a tension between Daantje and her brother, because he want to recall something which happend between them in the past. To keep Martijn at a distance Daantje starts a relation with Ramon. Then Martijn gets between them. He manage to talk her over to remember and talk over the things happend when they were kids. This helps him to overcome his obsession for his sister and after playing over the history he finally is able to see her without the videocamera like he did during the whole movie.
回复 :Stuart Gordon, considered a master of the horror genre thanks to classics like Re-Animator and Dagon, decides to do a different move in this strange trip to human morals."King of the Ants" is about a regular guy, Sean Crawley(newcomer Chris McKenna), a man without any aspiration who just live in his apartment doing the necessary job to live to the next day. In one of his jobs he meets Duke(Gearge Wendt), who introduces Sean to his boss, Ray Matthews(played by Daniel Baldwin). Ray hires Sean as a spy, and orders him to follow Eric Gatlin(Roy Livingstone), an accountant who has been investigating Ray's company. Problems start when Ray, while drunk, orders Sean to kill Eric. And he does it. Things go wrong when Ray decides to make Sean disappear destroying his mind with violent punishment and humiliation.From the point where Sean kills Eric, we go in the same boat with him, as he goes through a downward spiral of human degradation, traveling from guilt, to confusion and finally to his rebirth, in a state where humanity, morals and values are not important anymore. Chris McKenna acting is very important because he manages to be likable even when he is part of gruesome acts, both as victim and/or criminal. He has that look of innocence that hides a dark side and he manages to carry the film.The support cast also includes Kari Wuhrer, as Eric's widow who also becomes a central part of Sean's trip to hell. She gives a fine performance, although it's obvious that Sean is the main character. He is the most developed of all and McKenna's performance is up to the challenge.The film has very disturbing images of violence, and while it may not be as graphic as "Kill Bill" for example, the strength of the violence is in the lack of humanity that the character manifest. He is more than an ant in this world. He is the king.Stuart Gordon has managed to create a film that, while maybe it's not one of his best efforts; it's very well done, has a VERY interesting story to tell, and manages to capture the attention every second of it.
