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Summary: revenge of the rats
Review: didn't expect much when watching this movie and it turned out to be really good, a great low budget movie! there's so many bad creature movies out there now days but this one definitely sticks out among the crowd. body count is plenty high with plenty of blood and guts and the giant rat is pretty cool. plenty of non stop action and the acting is all well done. have to recommend this film for the fans of the nature amok category for sure, check her out
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Summary: revenge of the rats
Review: didn't expect much when watching this movie and it turned out to be really good, a great low budget movie! there's so many bad creature movies out there now days but this one definitely sticks out among the crowd. body count is plenty high with plenty of blood and guts and the giant rat is pretty cool. plenty of non stop action and the acting is all well done. have to recommend this film for the fans of the nature amok category for sure, check her out
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Summary: A soso film
Review: I first saw this on the Scifi channel.It was an ok film.It has some flaws,but the acting was decent.The special effects were good,not great.Almost all the actors we no die,except the 2 main ones of course.When a teen reporter goes under cover at a building were they help teens with there problems,she finds out that there are killer rats everywere and they are starting to kill some of the patients.The momma rat is about the size of a large T.V.Anyway,now the reporter has to escape and get the patients to safety.The rats killed all of the falcuty and only 5 of the teenaged patients.In the end the reporter and her boyfriend escape along with the survivers.A good movie to rent and watch on a Friday night.There are some really creepy moments and gory scenes,like when the momma rat is dragging the girls head across the floor leaving a trail of blood.I would recomend you to rent this not buy.
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Summary: Tacaks Goes Back To Basics
Review: I've been a fan of Tibor Tacaks since I was a little kid and "The Gate" made me afraid to get off the bed during the night, and at the same time launched the career of Steve Dorff. He went on to direct such classics as "Gate 2" and "I, Madman". Even now, as I reminisce, the ice in my glass popped and I nearly had a heart attack. I can thank Tibor for that scare as well. He even directed the original Sabrina, the Teenage Witch movie and a few (the better and darker) episodes of the show.On to "Killer Rats"... The title says it all. I had only to see it on the shelf ("Oh, heavens, another killer rat tale.") and then see the director ("All, right! Finally a killer rat tale we can enjoy.") Not since Peter Weller donned a catcher's uniform and demolished his Brownstone with a baseball bat with bear traps attached in "Of Unknown Origin" have I been treated to such a screen masterpiece. I've seen and read them all, guys, I have no shame. "Deadly Eyes" and "The Rats," both loosely based on the James Herbert book (to which he penned two sequels, I know from experience). "The Junkyard" by Barry Porter (The best book of them all, a middle school nightmare factory of rats killing kids in a junkyard. King wishes he dreamed this one up, my twelve-year-old hands shook for an hour after finishing this one.) and "The Visitor" by Chauncey G. Parker, III, the basis for the best rat movie of them all, "Of Unknown Origin," also of interest to Shannon Tweed fans. Disregard Mario Bava's schlockfest "Rats," which contained one good scene that was given away by the VHS box cover. Disregard "Willard" and "Ben" and that horrible Michael Jackson song. Disregard Bert I. Gordon's "Food of the Gods" and its cheap dollhouse sets and gerbils passing for rats, or the inferior sequel "...Part 2" about mutant rats in a lab, wherein the cutest rat dies in a heartwrenching finale... (yeah, right) but I digress. "Killer Rats", if made in the late '80's or early '90's, would have passed the special effects margin. Remember the great claymation Takacs treated us to in the "Gate" movies and "Madman"? He uses something similar here, in '03, to create the rats. They are cartoonish and clean against a dirty background. The story is about a girl reporter who sneaks (?) into a mental institution and discovers a rat problem that is out of control. She tries to break out with her boyfriend's help, but there are many unforeseen difficulties. Could the experiment be controlled by a doctor who has a telepathic link with a great big cheesy looking mama rat with a taste for blood and a lack of compassion for human life? Could it BE?!! Ron Perlman has a typically over the top role as the director of the hospital, the only name in the whole flick, but we don't care do we, my brothers? How could we? Tacaks gave us a killer rat film with a title that didn't try to be artsy, a film that took us back to the dark corners of our childhood for 90 minutes. We can allow cheesy effects and we can allow intentionally (benefit of the doubt) bad acting. We can allow these things because Tacaks is the man who gave the world Steve Dorff and Christa Denton and the Sun Volt rocket that saved the world. Pretend you're young Douglas in a warped Ray Bradbury tale and take the mental trip back to the eighties and slide "Killer Rats" in the DVD player (that we wish we had back then) and think, "If I was in the seventh grade this would have scared my pants off." It would have. Buy it and see. Thanks again Tibor.
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Summary: Tacaks Goes Back To Basics
Review: I've been a fan of Tibor Tacaks since I was a little kid and "The Gate" made me afraid to get off the bed during the night, and at the same time launched the career of Steve Dorff. He went on to direct such classics as "Gate 2" and "I, Madman". Even now, as I reminisce, the ice in my glass popped and I nearly had a heart attack. I can thank Tibor for that scare as well. He even directed the original Sabrina, the Teenage Witch movie and a few (the better and darker) episodes of the show. On to "Killer Rats"... The title says it all. I had only to see it on the shelf ("Oh, heavens, another killer rat tale.") and then see the director ("All, right! Finally a killer rat tale we can enjoy.") Not since Peter Weller donned a catcher's uniform and demolished his Brownstone with a baseball bat with bear traps attached in "Of Unknown Origin" have I been treated to such a screen masterpiece. I've seen and read them all, guys, I have no shame. "Deadly Eyes" and "The Rats," both loosely based on the James Herbert book (to which he penned two sequels, I know from experience). "The Junkyard" by Barry Porter (The best book of them all, a middle school nightmare factory of rats killing kids in a junkyard. King wishes he dreamed this one up, my twelve-year-old hands shook for an hour after finishing this one.) and "The Visitor" by Chauncey G. Parker, III, the basis for the best rat movie of them all, "Of Unknown Origin," also of interest to Shannon Tweed fans. Disregard Mario Bava's schlockfest "Rats," which contained one good scene that was given away by the VHS box cover. Disregard "Willard" and "Ben" and that horrible Michael Jackson song. Disregard Bert I. Gordon's "Food of the Gods" and its cheap dollhouse sets and gerbils passing for rats, or the inferior sequel "...Part 2" about mutant rats in a lab, wherein the cutest rat dies in a heartwrenching finale... (yeah, right) but I digress. "Killer Rats", if made in the late '80's or early '90's, would have passed the special effects margin. Remember the great claymation Takacs treated us to in the "Gate" movies and "Madman"? He uses something similar here, in '03, to create the rats. They are cartoonish and clean against a dirty background. The story is about a girl reporter who sneaks (?) into a mental institution and discovers a rat problem that is out of control. She tries to break out with her boyfriend's help, but there are many unforeseen difficulties. Could the experiment be controlled by a doctor who has a telepathic link with a great big cheesy looking mama rat with a taste for blood and a lack of compassion for human life? Could it BE?!! Ron Perlman has a typically over the top role as the director of the hospital, the only name in the whole flick, but we don't care do we, my brothers? How could we? Tacaks gave us a killer rat film with a title that didn't try to be artsy, a film that took us back to the dark corners of our childhood for 90 minutes. We can allow cheesy effects and we can allow intentionally (benefit of the doubt) bad acting. We can allow these things because Tacaks is the man who gave the world Steve Dorff and Christa Denton and the Sun Volt rocket that saved the world. Pretend you're young Douglas in a warped Ray Bradbury tale and take the mental trip back to the eighties and slide "Killer Rats" in the DVD player (that we wish we had back then) and think, "If I was in the seventh grade this would have scared my pants off." It would have. Buy it and see. Thanks again Tibor.
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Summary: It was made for cable, but it belongs in the garbage...
Review: Killer Rats has more substance than most killer beastie movies although it leaves me a little confused as to the set layout.
Sewer workers find a blocked-off doorway. One leaves to find a new way around while the other breaks open the seal. He pokes his head in the wall and is promptly yanked in. The other worker returns. She gets a look at something in the hole and runs. She gets caught.
We then see a troubled blond woman, Samantha, get delivered to a private sanitarium. There she is forced to fit in. We meet some of the other characters, including the ruthless head doctor, and discover that the rats are free in the building.
All is not quite as it seems. Samantha is actually an undercover reporter trying to report of possibly deteriorating conditions after privatization. People start disappearing and Samantha may have seen something but she was medicated at the time.
The movie gets pretty intense as the rats get bolder and we learn more about their relationship with some of the facility's staff. There is one scene of a disturbed girl who had seen her lover killed by the rats. She knows they are after her and that she has no way of escaping the padded room where she is on suicide watch. As the rats arrive, she manages to bite a wrist sufficiently to commit suicide.
The movie's effect vary somewhat throughout the film. One scene shows rats scurrying toward a door and they look like toys being pulled on strings. the big main rat sometimes looks very real and at other times it looks two-dimensional. But one thing is constant, the rats have glowing red eyes that emit malevolence in every scene.
I will not spoil the twists and surprises but I was somewhat confused during some of the action scenes as to what was basement and what was sewer. I was not sure why the characters could not find a way out. But it's a good film with plenty of atmosphere and some good solid framework.
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Summary: Killer Rats pulls no punches
Review: Killer Rats has more substance than most killer beastie movies although it leaves me a little confused as to the set layout.
Sewer workers find a blocked-off doorway. One leaves to find a new way around while the other breaks open the seal. He pokes his head in the wall and is promptly yanked in. The other worker returns. She gets a look at something in the hole and runs. She gets caught.
We then see a troubled blond woman, Samantha, get delivered to a private sanitarium. There she is forced to fit in. We meet some of the other characters, including the ruthless head doctor, and discover that the rats are free in the building.
All is not quite as it seems. Samantha is actually an undercover reporter trying to report of possibly deteriorating conditions after privatization. People start disappearing and Samantha may have seen something but she was medicated at the time.
The movie gets pretty intense as the rats get bolder and we learn more about their relationship with some of the facility's staff. There is one scene of a disturbed girl who had seen her lover killed by the rats. She knows they are after her and that she has no way of escaping the padded room where she is on suicide watch. As the rats arrive, she manages to bite a wrist sufficiently to commit suicide.
The movie's effect vary somewhat throughout the film. One scene shows rats scurrying toward a door and they look like toys being pulled on strings. the big main rat sometimes looks very real and at other times it looks two-dimensional. But one thing is constant, the rats have glowing red eyes that emit malevolence in every scene.
I will not spoil the twists and surprises but I was somewhat confused during some of the action scenes as to what was basement and what was sewer. I was not sure why the characters could not find a way out. But it's a good film with plenty of atmosphere and some good solid framework.
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Summary: RATS!!!!!
Review: KILLER RATS is one of those rare modern movies that captures much of the essence of the fifties and sixties "killer monster" movies. Director Tibor Takacs manages to instill some real creepy moments as we are engrossed in this tale of mutant rats. Sara Downing plays a reporter who goes "undercover" to investigate the goings on a HMO type facility. She meets the esteemed doctor (Ron Perlman) and the obedient staff and soon senses something amiss. Meanwhile, her boyfriend reporter (Michael Hagerty) tries to convince her to get out after a series of mysterious disappearances. Michael Zelniker plays the maintenance man who has a mysterious connection with the rats; Bailey Chase plays a drug addict who is a handsome action movie star; and Denise Dowse plays Rose, the bitchy roommate of Sara. The CGI generated rats of course don't look real, but they are scary nonetheless. The movie has an eerie atmospheric pacing and I forgive the numerous plot loopholes because it's a scary movie! If you like this kind of thriller, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: A soso film
Review: KILLER RATS is one of those rare modern movies that captures much of the essence of the fifties and sixties "killer monster" movies. Director Tibor Takacs manages to instill some real creepy moments as we are engrossed in this tale of mutant rats. Sara Downing plays a reporter who goes "undercover" to investigate the goings on a HMO type facility. She meets the esteemed doctor (Ron Perlman) and the obedient staff and soon senses something amiss. Meanwhile, her boyfriend reporter (Michael Hagerty) tries to convince her to get out after a series of mysterious disappearances. Michael Zelniker plays the maintenance man who has a mysterious connection with the rats; Bailey Chase plays a drug addict who is a handsome action movie star; and Denise Dowse plays Rose, the bitchy roommate of Sara. The CGI generated rats of course don't look real, but they are scary nonetheless. The movie has an eerie atmospheric pacing and I forgive the numerous plot loopholes because it's a scary movie! If you like this kind of thriller, you won't be disappointed.
Rating:
Summary: RATS!!!!!
Review: KILLER RATS is one of those rare modern movies that captures much of the essence of the fifties and sixties "killer monster" movies. Director Tibor Takacs manages to instill some real creepy moments as we are engrossed in this tale of mutant rats. Sara Downing plays a reporter who goes "undercover" to investigate the goings on a HMO type facility. She meets the esteemed doctor (Ron Perlman) and the obedient staff and soon senses something amiss. Meanwhile, her boyfriend reporter (Michael Hagerty) tries to convince her to get out after a series of mysterious disappearances. Michael Zelniker plays the maintenance man who has a mysterious connection with the rats; Bailey Chase plays a drug addict who is a handsome action movie star; and Denise Dowse plays Rose, the bitchy roommate of Sara. The CGI generated rats of course don't look real, but they are scary nonetheless. The movie has an eerie atmospheric pacing and I forgive the numerous plot loopholes because it's a scary movie! If you like this kind of thriller, you won't be disappointed.
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