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Glass Trap is set in Los Angeles where Curtis (C. Thomas Howell) works as a cleaner in the posh upmarket Waldman Building where various offices are housed, it's a Saturday & the building is almost empty except for a few workers & security guards. A delivery of plants is made but it turns out that the plants are hiding an unexpected secret, they were exposed to plutonium & the Ants that were on the plants have grown to a huge size & their appetite for flesh has also increased. The Ants breed quickly & soon decide to turn the Waldman Building into their very own Ant hill, it's up to Curtis the Janitor to save the day...Directed by Fred Olen Ray under the pseudonym Ed Raymond this is the sort of rubbish that turns up on the Sci-Fi Channel regularly that features some sort of giant insect or animal, a few Hollywood has-beens & lots of bad CGI computer work. The plot is full of holes & character's you don't care about who make the most stupid decisions that they deserve to die. There's this odd sub-plot about some guy who has to copy a disk for some reason but we never find out why even though he knocks the cleaner out so he isn't seen & it seems to be quite important to him, the disk or it's contents are never followed up or even mentioned again. It's never explained how giant radioactive Ants manage to stay hidden in what are basically houseplants or how they breed so quickly. The whole film is full of ridiculous moments like survivors sliding across from one building to another on a telephone wire (one guy shoots a gun at an Ant while on the wire & guess what? He shoots the wire & falls to his death, that's how stupid this film is). At 90 odd minutes it goes on for ages & even a couple of embarrassing cameos can't save it.This being a PG rated film there's virtually no gore, there's a couple of bloody skeletons but nothing else. The whole thing has a pedestrian pace & it fails to generate any excitement or tension or scares. The Ants themselves look poor, the CGI work is terrible while the actual on-set models are so stiff & lifeless the poor actors have to jump around & roll around on the floor while holding a plastic Ant to try & create the illusion that it's attacking them, they don't & it doesn't.With a supposed budget of about $475,000 this was low budget & it shows with pretty bad production values. C. Thomas Howell & Martin Kove are better then this while Stella Stevens seems to be having fun & puts in a reasonable performance.Glass Trap is a really bad creature feature like the ones that turn up on the Sci-Fi Channel all the time but without any gore & an even lamer plot & killer giant creature than usual. There are much better creature features out there, you have been warned.

"The Glass Trap" is an okay creature feature.**SPOILERS**The Waldman Apartment Building is getting ready for the holidays, and the newest client, Joan Hightower, (Stella Stevens) and her assistant Sharon, (Siri Baruc) are checking in, making everyone on their toes. When it's discovered that there's been some illegally transported into the apartment. Weird occurrences start happening all over the building, prompting janitor Curtis, (C. Thomas Howell) decides to investigate. He finds most of the tenants missing and no one knows why, even though he knows something is wrong. Rounding up the guests and trying to find what is going on in the building, they find that giant ants have invaded and slowly picking them off one by one.The Good News: This had some parts that weren't all that bad. There are some moments of actual suspense in the film. The car attack in the garage is the main one, and is one of the main scenes in the film. A high-top escape over city streets is perhaps the highlight, as it actually goes for some spectacle to add to the suspense. The final resolution is one of the best parts of the movie, and it really makes you care about what happens to what happens. The fact is, the film has one of the best throwback films ever. There is a spirit and tone evident in the film that captures the giant monster films of the part. The film starts off fast, with the invasion coming in quite quickly and it never really has time to slow down for much of anything. The rapid pace is mostly the film's greatest strength, as everything pretty much happens right after something else, so it can become a continuous rush as it goes along.The Bad News: The fact is, most of the film's weakness is it's over-abundant and totally unnecessary CGI work. The ants look totally cheesy and fake, and when they use puppets, they fare little better. You can at least tell that there's a physical object there, but it still looks really fake and at all convincing in either format. They look accurate, but not realistic. It's not really the budget's fault, but it's still a problem to get over. Also, there are a few parts that don't really make much sense. It's well known that ants are one of the strongest creatures on the planet, yet they are routinely kept out of places by doors or other blocking devices that they should easily pull out, considering that their size would give them even more strength. A slowly closing door is able to keep them out, and they can't yank the door open at all. A creature that size would be able to rip the door off it's hinges and part of the wall as well, and a couple characters are able to fend off the ants inside a locked car. Another perfect example is using a stereo to keep the ants at bay. The fact that they don't hear is mentioned several times in the scene, an yet it's not laid down on the ground but held up in the air. It's just a small collection of scenes that show the stupidity of the scenes in the film.The Final Verdict: Not all that bad, but still needs a lot of work to really be of upper-tier of monster flicks. It's got an old-school quality to it, but might lack in appealing to newer creature feature fans. Worthy of a look, at the least, but keep expectations low.Rated PG-13: Violence and brief Language

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* A bunch of people end up in a big skyscraper with a lot of giant ants. It's a Glass Trap. The ants are highly radioactive. This makes them cranky. They decide to attack anything that moves. The Dept. of Agriculture attempts to solve the bug problem by whipping out some SWAT team action on them. Swat? Get it? Swat the bugs? Pretty clever eh? I didn't even know the Dept of Agriculture had armed personnel. They're so secret "even the president doesn't know about them". They will attempt to kill the infestation as the people inside try to hold on and escape."Glass Trap" is a bad title for a pretty entertaining B-movie. I had no idea what this movie was about until I read the back of the video box. Deciding whether to rent a B-movie shouldn't have taken that long. You should know whether you want to see the movie the second you hear the title. I would have named the flick "Giant Rampaging Ants". It has a good ring to it.Anyway, I enjoyed "Glass Trap". Saying this movie is low budget is an understatement. Rubber ants, the size of a pug dog, charge after people and I was cheering. I'm glad this flick relied more on creature effects than CGI. It was fun watching the actors get pounced on by the rubber beasties. My favorite scene had a guy alone in an elevator getting into a wrestling match with the rubber ant. The ant sneaks up on him and pounces on his back. They're clever that way. The radioactivity made them more devious and stealth-like. How else to explain how a giant ant can sneak up on somebody in a tiny elevator?If you like creature features and low budget wackiness, you'll get into "Glass Trap". Ants attack, women scream, and blood splatters. I had a good time.

Be warned, the acting in this movie is HORRIBLE. I don't think anyone really wanted to do this film, and I'm wondering what kind of financial trouble C. Thomas Howell is in to have to do this ...He, along with Martin Kove are the only "stars" you'll recognize, the rest of the players are unknowns and are likely to go down in history as the most unemotional "horror" movie actors of all time.Not only were the "special effects" laughable (the ants were made of paper mache' it looked like), but even the DVD effects weren't on par! The ants used as selecting tools weren't lined up properly so on certain options all you got were legs.There are some serious plot malfunctions with "Glass Trap." Let's consider the following: * We don't find out how the ants became mutated until halfway through the film, and then this information comes from a "super secret" federal agency, and yet podunk sheriff is apparently special enough to get the scoop.* There is no mention of how Paolo and Curtis get off the roof.* Where did Uncle Hank's body go? * Why did Carley not call the cops when she first saw the ants? Or even use the phone when she and the security guard were trapped together? These are just some of the MANY indiscretions with this film. Regardless, it still gave me one of the best laughs I've had in a while. Highly recommended for a night in with a big group of friends!