We’ve spoiled their picnic for the last time. Nature strikes back hard, leaving a trail of death and destruction when THE HIVE debuts on DVD August 5 from Genius Products and RHI Entertainment. When a mass of flesh-eating army ants — 200 million strong — make their way through the jungles of Brazil devouring every living thing in their path, a scientist and his entomologist girlfriend are called in to stave off the deadly attack. But when they discover the bizarre intention and origins of the crawling creatures, they fear for the future of the planet. When these ants come crawling, classic horror gets a contemporary twist and an unearthly invasion gets the upper hand. The action-packed ninth installment in the “Maneater” series stars Kal Weber (Mile High), Tom Wopat (TV’s “The Dukes of Hazzard”), and Elizabeth Healey (Croc). The DVD will be available for $14.95 SRP, read on for a synopsis.
Dr. Horace “Len” Lennart (Weber), a young scientist who runs Thorax Industries extermination service in Los Angeles, is dispatched with his colleague Bill (Wopat) to wipe out a threat in the jungles of Ban Tao. Days earlier, a mass of flesh-eating army ants attacked and killed hundreds of workers in a mine. Len’s ex-girlfriend Claire Dubois (Healy), a highly ethical entomologist and activist vegan who strongly opposes the annihilation of any species, is against the mission. But even she becomes concerned when Len fears that the ants have developed a kind of “hive mind” as witnessed by the perfect O-shaped crop circles the creatures created. Their mass intelligence makes them far more formidable than anyone previously believed. It’s a scheme that not only changes Len’s position on an ultimate extermination plan developed by the U.S. Army, but rocks the very future of the planet as well.