Phase IV (1974)
Phase IV (1974)
HDTV 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 6737 Kbps | 80 min | 4,19 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller
HDTV 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 6737 Kbps | 80 min | 4,19 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller
Saul Bass had a fascinating career as an animator and as designer of title sequences for a number of notable films, including Psycho, Vertigo, Anatomy Of A Murder and Seconds. However, Phase IV was his only credit as director of a feature film. A visually inventive science-fiction story, Phase IV concerns a group of research scientists working in the Arizona desert who find themselves confronted by an Army of super-intelligent mutant ants. The results are more intelligent than the description would lead you to believe, and Nigel Davenport and Michael Murphy turn in good performances as the embattled men of science.
Despite the dated quality of some elements, particularly the costumes this picture is, in my book, the best killer bug movie of all time. Through the use of an almost nature documentary style of photographing the ants, we really get a new perspective on the film's six-legged antagonists. There's something totally raw about the way these ants act and are shot alongside the inexorable, almost plodding pace of the piece that makes Phase IV seem amazingly, terrifyingly real.
The performances by the human actors are very much in the wooden, gee-whiz style of older sci-fi but here it works. The ants are a silent, almost invisible, killer. Their creeping terror, when cut against the classic characterization of the chisel-chinned hero and the bearded professor, illustrates that the best that humanity has to offer against the threat might not be enough.
A hard-to-find favorite.IMDB Reviewer
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Phase IV (1974)
Phase IV (1974)
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