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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]] - The Los Angeles storm drains are the setting for the climax.

* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]] - Well, ship out in the middle of the ocean with the ants, but the humans get to pull it off too with their nests.

* [[Kill It With Fire]] - This film had flamethrower-toting heroes stalking monsters through dark tunnels decades before ''[[Alien (Film)|Alien]]''.

* [[Noisy Nature]] - The ants display good lung-power.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] - Every layer of government behaves as rationally as it can, under the circumstances.

* [[Screaming Woman]] - Used effectively (e.g. with restraint) for once. Pat Metford screams the first time she (and the audience) catch sight of a giant killer ant at close quarters, but is calm and professional the rest of the movie. And of course there's the catatonic girl who suddenly breaks into a [[Title Drop]] when she smells a vial of formic acid.

* [[Splash of Color]]: The entire movie is gray scale with the exception of the title at the start.

* [[Stay in The Kitchen]] - Impressively averted, considering the era it was made. The military gasses the nest of giant killer ants, and the next stage is for someone to go down into the nest and confirm they're all dead. This is universally recognized as a [[Darkness Equals Death|very bad idea]], yet [[Hot Scientist]] Dr. Pat Medford argues firmly and convincingly that she ''has'' to go down into the nest as her father is too old and she can't give the two male leads "a crash course in entomology".

* [[Stock Scream]] - Several uses of the Wilhelm Scream. (Although this was long before it became an example of this trope.)