Empire of the Ants / Jaws of Satan Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		2.5
Video		3.5
Audio		4.0
Extras		1.5
Overall		2.5

Empire of the Ants / Jaws of Satan Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman June 15, 2015

Note: The scores above are averages for the two films in this double feature together. See individual reviews (linked below) for scores for each film separately.

There must be something in the air, or perhaps the water, for a number of new(ish) Blu-ray releases are featuring one of the hoariest tropes in horror films, namely marauding beasts of one sort or another. Some of these outings actually feature giant beasts, as is the case in another recent Scream Factory double feature which paired The Food of the Gods (giant beasts) with Frogs (good old normal size nasties), but in case more outsized creepy crawly villains are your particular cup o’ tea, there’s also the new VCI Entertainment release The Giant Spider Invasion . This Scream Factory double feature is somewhat similar to The Food of the Gods / Frogs, in that one film features mutated creatures (and is the product of the fervid imagination of Bert I. Gordon), while the second deals with putatively more mundane (if admittedly still kind of large) slithering entities.

Individual reviews of the titles included in this double feature can be accessed by clicking on the following links:

Empire Of The Ants Blu-ray review

Jaws of Satan Blu-ray review

Empire of the Ants / Jaws of Satan Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Assessment of the video quality of each release can be found in the above referenced reviews.

Note: While this disc loaded perfectly well on my PS3, when I tried to play it with PowerDVD on my PC drive to check the resolution of supplements, it kept stopping at a black boot up screen with a 00:25 (second) timing. Only when I manually dragged the slider to the end of the 00:25 timecode did it then boot to the first menu allowing access to either film.

Empire of the Ants / Jaws of Satan Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Assessment of the audio quality of each release can be found in the above referenced reviews.

Empire of the Ants / Jaws of Satan Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Supplementary material included with each release can be found in the above referenced reviews.

Empire of the Ants / Jaws of Satan Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Once again a Scream Factory double feature offers an okay popcorn muncher (Empire of the Ants) and a pretty turgid throwaway (Jaws of Satan). There are some niggling issues with video quality on both of these, but Scream has assembled decent supplements for Empire of the Ants at least, something that may sweeten the pot for fans on the fence.