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Summary: Quirky Vintage Weller
Review: An urban "Moby Dick"! Suspenseful yet humorous with some purposely overblown rat scenes. (ONE rat, not "hordes.") The film is not a scary rat flick, (though it has some fright moments)--it's a psychological thriller about a man being drawn into obsession.
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Summary: LOVED IT!
Review: BEING A PETER WELLER FAN, NOTWITHSTANDING, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS FILM. HOWEVER, I DID NOT SEE IT AS A "HORROR" FILM. TO ME, IT WAS MORE COMEDY-SUSPENSE, ESPECIALLY WHEN MR. FASTIDIOUS TRASHED HIS HOUSE DURING THE WAR WITH THE RAT. GREAT STUFF!!
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Summary: LOVED IT!
Review: BEING A PETER WELLER FAN, NOTWITHSTANDING, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS FILM. HOWEVER, I DID NOT SEE IT AS A "HORROR" FILM. TO ME, IT WAS MORE COMEDY-SUSPENSE, ESPECIALLY WHEN MR. FASTIDIOUS TRASHED HIS HOUSE DURING THE WAR WITH THE RAT. GREAT STUFF!!
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Summary: LOVED IT!
Review: BEING A PETER WELLER FAN, NOTWITHSTANDING, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS FILM. HOWEVER, I DID NOT SEE IT AS A "HORROR" FILM. TO ME, IT WAS MORE COMEDY-SUSPENSE, ESPECIALLY WHEN MR. FASTIDIOUS TRASHED HIS HOUSE DURING THE WAR WITH THE RAT. GREAT STUFF!!
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Summary: TALK ABOUT BEING " RATTED OUT" !!!
Review: I AM A TRUE FAN OF HORROR MOVIES. THIS MOVIE TAKES AN UNWANTED PEST TO A NEW LEVEL. EVERYONE WHO HAS WATCH THIS MOVIE WITH ME REALLY ENJOYED IT. NO ONE COULD SIT WITH THEIR FEET ON THE FLOOR!! THERE WAS YELLING AND SCREAMING THROUGH OUT THE MOVIE. THIS IS A FILM THAT SHOULD BE IN ANYONE'S COLLECTION THAT IS SERIOUS ABOUT BEING REAL HORROR MOVIES.GET IT AND " SCARE " IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS.
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Summary: Not worth the time - worst movie ever seen
Review: I saw this movie when it first came out in the early/mid 80's. It is by far the worst movie I've ever seen and the only reason I watched it to the end was to see how much more ridiculous the story line would get. Basically, the movie depicts a man who goes on a hunt in his house trying to catch and kill a rat, and in the process the man destroys his house. My husband and I were talking about the worst movies we'd ever seen and I told him about this one bringing him to Amazon's site to show him. I've no clue how this incredibly bad move could have a 4 star review. Don't waste your time on this one.
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Summary: The all time king of rat movies?
Review: I saw this on video back in the 80's, mostly because Peter Weller was in it, and he was (and still is) one of my favorite actors. He plays an NYC businessman who becomes obsessed with a really big and mean rat that's invaded the dreamhouse/brownstone he's personally restored. The filmmakers definitely had aspirations beyond just making a rat movie (at one point, Weller pounds on the ceiling with a copy of "Moby Dick"), but just as a rat movie, it succeeds beautifully: Increasingly scary and gory rat action, something the new version of "Willard" pretty much forgot to include. There's also a rat expert onhand, without which no good rat movie can do without - really two, if you count Weller's character, who starts spewing rat facts at inappropriate times at the movie goes on. (One of the great bits of dialogue goes something like this: "You're thinking of [the rat] maybe 10% of the time...but he's thinking of you 100% of the time..." Because he's a RAT, and rats is rats.) What really puts the movie over, aside from some pretty effective direction, is Weller's great performance as the businessman, who slowly starts to lose his grip the more he becomes obsessed with evicting the rat from his home. I'd rank it as one of the best performances in a horror film, up there with Jeff Goldblum in "The Fly." So, if you're into rat movies, it'd be hard to top this one for your viewing pleasure.
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Summary: Wow! Nice little surprise!
Review: I'm a big horror buff. Now i have known about this one since it's theatrical release, but this little gem has managed to evade me for a viewing all these years! Thanks to DVD. I finally got to peep it out. I wasn't expecting much. But when the credits rolled I felt all warm and fuzzy for laying out the dough on this title!Most the other reviewers here applaud Weller's performance. And I must say it's maybe even the strongest one I've seen from him. He plays the family guy, whose wife (Shannon Tweed in her screen debut) takes the kid and goes off to vacation at her parent's. Weller's character can not go because he's trying to get a deal through at work that could give him a big promotion. Soon after his wife and kid leave, a pretty big damned rat infiltrates Weller's brownstone abode which he has obsessively renovated painstakingly by hand. Basically Weller is a neat freak! And when the rat begins to vandalize the house as rodent's do... He begins to go nutty and obsessive on how to get rid of it... And soon it's a battle of life and death over which one will be king of the castle! While others associate this film to the likes of Ben and mayhaps even Food of the Gods. I found this film to be rather original! Probably mostly in part to superior characterizations which make the tale work damn good. The ladies will most likely freak out on this one though. Let's just say the big rat get's quite brazen at times trying to take over the house as his territory! If you think you get it bad enough to keep the seat down! Well then... Don't let 'em see this one! I think it's a pretty safe bet that well rounded horror afficandos will be pleased with purchasing this one. All others should try to give it the ole' rental first.
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Summary: a moronic mess from start to finnish
Review: Peter Weller is not a great actor and proves it in this shameful and rather stupid horror film i saw on late night t.v. When i went back to bed though i could not sleep i was too busy lauging at the insane script this film had about an executive who has a monstorus problem when hordes of hungrey rats entrap him in his happy home. Weller is an idiot yuppie trapped in an idiot's movie even the ending is idiotic! Nothing worth remebering so bad is this film television exces put it on late at night so no one will watch it. Acadmey award winning material its not. A film like this should stay unknown.
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Summary: Great movie ,dont listen to the others
Review: the movie had some week points , but the man's obsession with the rat, was very real. a must see ,i am looking to buy it on dvd ,thanks chris
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