Legion of Fire: Killer Ants!
Legion of Fire Killer Ants alternatively titled Marabunta is a 1998 made for TV horror movie, made for the Fox TV channel.
Dr. Jim Conrad is visiting the small town of Burly Pines to fish. While out with a friend, they discover a moose that has been stripped clean of meat. They presume it was left by hunters for scavengers, but then the hunters arrive and say they had shot it two hours earlier and had been tracking it since. They wonder what could have stripped a moose bare so quickly. A shopkeeper is found in the same condition in his home. The authorities think it may have been a predator, but Jim isnt so sure. During the autopsy, Jim finds something on the mans body and quietly takes it to study. When he looks at it under a microscope, he discovers that it is the jaws of a marabunta, a South American ant that is known for traveling in waves, killing everything in their path. After questioning Sheriff Jeff Croy and his men, Jim figures out that the ants must have arrived on a boat that had crashed a few years ago, leaving logs of South American wood behind. The ants had hibernated in the wood until recent seismic activity had made it warm enough to support them.Jim teams up with Croy and school teacher Karen to try to find a way to stop the ants. Jim and Karen go to the beach where most of the wood from the ship washed up to try to find and kill the queen. While they are searching the area, Jims friend, who is piloting the helicopter, is attacked by the ants. While trying to fight them off, his actions cause the helicopter to lift off and crash into the mountain. Jim and Karen find themselves surrounded by the ants. They hold them off using a flame thrower and shotgun until they can reach a nearby canoe, which they take downstream until they reach a waterfall and go over it. Having survived the falls, they find an old cabin with a motorcycle. They get it started just as the ants reach them and ride it safely back to town. They convince Croy to evacuate the town. Croy has local Native American Gray Wolf handle the evacuation, and tell his son Chad to go with them. When everyone is out
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