一座风景秀美的小镇被一场突如其来的浓雾瞬间淹没。雾中传来阵阵惨叫，人们惊慌失措地四处逃散。戴维和他的儿子与众多镇上的人被困在小镇超市里，等待雾的消散。浓雾并没有如期望的散开，而走进浓雾的人一去不返。浓雾逐渐露出了它狰狞的面目。恐惧、惊慌、挣扎、悲伤、绝望……人们的精神濒临崩溃。如何才能活着走出迷雾？面对超市里几近癫狂的人们和超市外吞噬一切、不可知的迷雾，戴维紧紧搂着儿子，开始了艰难的求生之路……
约翰·福特导演早期作品，此时还在使用杰克·福特作为导演名，尽管福特曾拍摄过六十多部默片，但如今大多数都已遗失，本片是少数存留下来的几部之一，讲述了一个非常简单的西部小镇故事，故事主角比姆（Buck Jones）是一个流浪汉，某天他偶然认识了同样是流浪汉的男孩比尔（Georgie Stone），两人成为了亲密无间的好朋友。比姆一直暗恋着学校老师玛丽·布鲁斯（Helen Ferguson），然而她已经有男友哈维·卡希尔（William Buckley），再加上自己流浪汉的身份，他平常只敢远远地望着她。为了更好地照顾比尔，比姆打算寻找工作，却被雇主出了一个十分刁难的要求，比尔为了帮助比姆不幸摔伤，比姆在伤心之余又发现自己暗恋的玛丽也陷入了大麻烦。
小美和阿雄在一起很久了，到了快结婚的时间，可是当小美和阿雄的两家人在一起见面的时候，父母双方不同意，各自有自己的原因，阿雄家里是农村的，小美家是城里人，两种不同思想的长辈让两个年轻人左右为难。
科学家艾迪.杰森普一直想象存在着意识的异度空间，而且这个空间和我们 的真实生活并无区别。除了科学传感器之外，艾迪不惜使用强效这魂药，让自己去体验那令人惊异的神秘世界。他没有想到，一旦失控，后果不堪设想...
Stuart Gordon, considered a master of the horror genre thanks to classics like Re-Animator and Dagon, decides to do a different move in this strange trip to human morals. "King of the Ants" is about a regular guy, Sean Crawley(newcomer Chris McKenna), a man without any aspiration who just live in his apartment doing the necessary job to live to the next day. In one of his jobs he meets Duke(Gearge Wendt), who introduces Sean to his boss, Ray Matthews(played by Daniel Baldwin). Ray hires Sean as a spy, and orders him to follow Eric Gatlin(Roy Livingstone), an accountant who has been investigating Ray's company. Problems start when Ray, while drunk, orders Sean to kill Eric. And he does it. Things go wrong when Ray decides to make Sean disappear destroying his mind with violent punishment and humiliation. From the point where Sean kills Eric, we go in the same boat with him, as he goes through a downward spiral of human degradation, traveling from guilt, to confusion and finally to his rebirth, in a state where humanity, morals and values are not important anymore. Chris McKenna acting is very important because he manages to be likable even when he is part of gruesome acts, both as victim and/or criminal. He has that look of innocence that hides a dark side and he manages to carry the film. The support cast also includes Kari Wuhrer, as Eric's widow who also becomes a central part of Sean's trip to hell. She gives a fine performance, although it's obvious that Sean is the main character. He is the most developed of all and McKenna's performance is up to the challenge. The film has very disturbing images of violence, and while it may not be as graphic as "Kill Bill" for example, the strength of the violence is in the lack of humanity that the character manifest. He is more than an ant in this world. He is the king. Stuart Gordon has managed to create a film that, while maybe it's not one of his best efforts; it's very well done, has a VERY interesting story to tell, and manages to capture the attention every second of it.
