Phase IV (1974)

Ants. Super-intelligent ants.
But this isn’t your average killer-bug movie — it’s a hypnotic, eerie study of evolution and control. Two scientists in the desert try to understand the ants’ new hive-mind intelligence, only to realize nature might be updating its operating system — without us.
The film’s tone is 70s-strange, its visuals stunningly geometric, and its final montage? Pure, unsettling genius. You’ll never look at an ant colony the same way again.

Rating: 4 / 5