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Killer Rats

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: It was made for cable, but it belongs in the garbage...
Review: Low budget and very poor production highlight yet another story of animals going amok and killing people. Ron Pearlman stars as the guy trying to hide it from the outside world. Too bad he couldn't stop this film from being made, period.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: The name says it all.
Review: Murderous mice threaten to devour hospital patients unless they're taken to their leader Mickey...just kidding.

At a mental health institution, the rats from a forgotten experiment have begun to mutate (of course) and eat the patients (guess the kitchen was out of head cheese) just as an undercover reporter checks in to do an inside story on the clinic (timing is everything, the proverbial hickory clock must not have struck one yet and the mouse is still running up it).

Okay, I have to be honest, this movie was lame. The special effects were horrible. The mother rat looked like some cheesy Halloween house decoration you'd leave out on your porch to wipe your feet on. The rat spawns had such glowing red eyes you'd think they'd be blind (but then again there were way more than three of them and they all had their tails). There was even a "Willard" type character with a telepathic bond with the rodents (all he must have heard was "Brains! Brains! Must have fresh brains!" because the rats decapitated their victims). If you're into B- horror flicks though you'll probably love this movie as it's the Mouse King of the genre.

Ron Perlman plays the head of the institution and the head of the forgotten experiment and he's the reason this has any star at all. It's a bad movie but he at least is, as always, good. Want to know more? Remember the remarks I made earlier about head cheese and decapitations?

Definitely spend no more than a cost of a rental and definitely have a drink.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bad.
Review: This movie is proof that I will watch any [thing]they have at the movie store. But, a one liner ironically describes what you will be thinking while and after you watch this plane crash: "This is definately....not good for my sobriety."

A girl is an undercover reporter that moves into a mental ward trying to see if they hurt the mentally ill people, little does she know that the head Psychiatrist and some....dude? Are performing horrible atrocities on rats.

The guy, which I think is the janitor becomes mentally bonded with the big momma rat, saying she "feeds off his thoughts" ... Well anyway the rats become physcho, yes physco they got red eyes and love blood. When your watching the film you wonder if the producers just went over the film with a red highlighter or something, dotting the eyes of the rats. But watch out kiddies, there is a big huge alpha rat thing, which when he comes on screen looks like a cgi smear as it jumps and attacks ... and old women. This whole movie seems aimless, you dont know if they are trying to appeal to 80's horror movie fans with the minimal blood and gore they show or PETA members when they preach about animal cruelty, which is the main motive for why the rats went nuts. Oh yes and another one liner "Time...for a little 1on1 therapy!", ...

The highlight of this film would have to be the crazy girl chewing her arm off for no reason other than she is nuts. Even though the idea of killer rats is far from cliche, Lets be for real here; I mean honestly, who is scared of someone mutating rats into physco rats? Not me, thus takeing away a scary movies lasting appeal giving it nothing to generate fear off of. The climax is as entertaining and anti-clamtic as Archie Bunker takeing a big joe.

But dont fret because a whole lot of monster rats came out a of trash can at the end, leaveing this horrible movie open for what sees to be a even worse sequel.

A sterling example that rat horror movies can't be any good.


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