Ants aka It Happened at Lakewood Manor (Blu-ray) by Kurt Dahlke Ants! AKA It Happened At Lakewood Manor: From the glory days of the made-for-TV movie, 1977 to be exact, comes Ants!, a delightful little time-waster I had the great fortune to catch, maybe on its second go-round on the television, in the late '70s. (It was first telecast on December 2nd, 1977 as It Happened At Lakewood Manor, later re-titled Panic At Lakewood Manor and for its video release again re-titled Ants for those who lack imagination. One can chose to determine on their own whether the exclamation point appendage on the cover is yet a third naming.) Something of a nature-run-amok, ecological-disaster-cum-monster movie, Ants' blend of TV-episodic drama and creepy-crawliness, making its Blu-ray debut here, unless I miss my guess, should go down real easy with a glass of lemonade on a hot Summer night. So, Lakewood Manor is run by the widower Ethel ...Read the entire review »