Did you ever kill someone for money and then not get paid for the job?  Oh sure, it's only me who's willing to admit it out loud, but you all know you've been there!  Well, that's sort of the story for this time's movie, King Of The Ants.

     It's the tale of a small time handy man who runs into a union guy who offers him a job following a local attorney.  Now, one thing leads to another and a Baldwin, Daniel, Stephen, Alec, whichever, they all look the same to me, offers him money to kill this attorney.  Now being a contract worker, he does what any working guy would do.  He takes the money and kills the attorney, but things don't go as planned from there.  You see, as they say, never trust a Sicilian when it comes to death and never trust a Baldwin to pay you after you've killed someone for him, because a Baldwin will stiff you every time, trust me people, you don't want to go there!

     Now, since they're not going to pay him, our handy man decides to do a little blackmail for his money, but that doesn't work out like he thought either, because a Baldwin doesn't kill, he only maims, and they decide that if he can't remember anything, he'd be safe to be free.  So, our union guys, with a little help from the Baldwins, come to the decision that the best way to make a man forget is many blows to the head over a prolonged period of time.  Now, speaking from experience, this doesn't really work.  I've taken many a head blow and I haven't become a drooling husk of a man.  I was that way a long time before the blows anyway!!!

     This movie is your basic revenge movie with a little twist.  There's a love angle that plays out really well and the beating scenes are extremely realistic.  This is well worth your rental money, and you'd never really know it.  The only reason I took a second look at it was the 'from the director of Re-Animator' banner on the cover, but I was very pleasantly surprised.  And you will be too.  So until the next time, remember, you can always email me if you've seen a bad movie that you thinks deserves my attention and also remember that a blow to the head is worth two in the bush...or was it a blow to the head is like a dog that won't hunt...or maybe those blows did cause me to lose the cliche part of my memory!  And, also, as always, the best movies are bad movies!