Monster Crap
Inductee: Rats: Night of Terror
No Mouse Trap Can Save You From This
1984
The
summer of my fun continues, even though like in February…my fun is someone
hallow as my sports team once again couldn’t get it done in the finals (Damn
you, Penguins for beating my Sharks). But let’s move on to the year of my birth
and the country of Italy (where I was not born in) and we head to a director
known for B-movie films in Italy in Bruno Mattei.
Bruno
Mattei is a director who believed more in quantity and didn’t care if it was
good or bad. In fact, he was known for shooting two films at the same time with
the same sets and some of the same actors, but they would have somewhat
different plots. And if you looked at IMDB, you would see several times where
there were at least four films released in a year in the 80s. And several
times, he was a person who blatantly lied about his films being sequels to
successful films (like his Terminator 2 and Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws).
But
luckily this is not a film that was shot in conjunction with another of his
films (although they did use the same sets as Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time
In America). As far as the actors go, they are all Italian actors who mostly
were very young and didn’t have much experience. Well, except for Ottaviano
Dell’Acqua as he you might as the guy behind the heavy makeup in Zombi 2 or
Zombie to the American fans.
Yep,
He Was The Zombie From The Film That Is So Well Known That They Put Him On The
Damn Cover Of Posters And Releases.
So
let’s get this induction underway.
We
begin with a shot of a canyon with a narrator talking.
Basically
in 2015 (thank god I didn’t induct this last year or I would be worried),
atomic bombs were dropped all over the seven continents (yeah, even Antarctica
gets blown up)
To
Be Fair, We Needed To Stop The Penguin Revolution Before It Ever Started
With
the devastation caused people to be horrified and those people went
underground. After that moment, every year will be called AB (After the Bomb),
which will also be the period of second human race. A century after that,
several men were dissatisfied by the system imposed on them by the new
humanity, revolted and returned to live on the surface like their ancestors.
They
Are Called Hippies
So
this new race is really called the new primitives and the two communities haven’t had
contact with each other in a long time since the new humanity is sophisticated
and considers the new primitives to be savages. So we are now on the year 225
AB.
We
then get a presentation of how desolate the surface world is.
Don’t
Worry…That Isn’t A Corpse. The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavera Just Had A Bit Too
Much To Drink And Passed Out In A Truck. Unfortunately For Him, That Truck Is A
Piece Of Shit
And
we get to see bikers who are part of the new primitives.
And
We Also Get Our Title Card Out Of The Way As Well
The
new primitives (in their crappy vehicles) go to a deserted city.
Oh
Yeah, I Mention About The Fact That Bruno Mattei Liked To Use Many Pseudonyms
(As A Lot Of International Sleazy Directors Used To Do) And The One That More
People Seem To Associate With Him Is Vincent Dawn, A Name He Only Made To
Satisfy His Distributers In Spain.
Anyway,
we meet some of our new primitive gang.
Kurt
(The Group’s Leader) And His Girlfriend Diana (With A Stupid Headband)
Chocolate
(Who Gets The Name Because She Is Black)
Taurus,
Who Likes To Ride His Motorcycle In The Back Of A Truck Just So He Can Have That
Fun Moment Of Riding Out Of The Truck When It Stops. He Also May Be Kurt’s Best
Friend
Video,
Who Has A Sweet Ass Perm. Just Look At That Thing.
They
find an abandoned bar and try to rummage for some left over liquor (even if it
would be several centuries old). Video sees a rat and tries to catch it for
food, but he fails. They find canned food which makes them happy so they don’t
have to eat the damn rats.
The
Guy Next To Kurt Right There Is Noah
This
Guy Is Duke, Who Likes To Dress Like Napoleon And Is A Complete Douche
That
Guy With The Triangle And Dot On His Head Is Deus
Duke
Is Joined Eating Sugar By Myrna
They
all celebrate the finding of this food (bad rationers), but that all stops when
Myrna finds a dead guy in one of the beds and screams.
The
Rats Eating The Corpse Would Like Myrna To Shut The Hell Up So They Can Enjoy
Their Meal Like The Primitives Are Doing.
The
rest of the crew sees the body.
Could
You Sense By Their Reactions That Bruno Mattei Liked To Do His Films With
Cartoonish Faces? Because He Did
Kurt
tells everyone to stop screaming since this isn’t the first time they have seen
a dead body. I would have also added that they act like there was never an
apocalyptic event. Anyway, Kurt tells everyone that someone was hear who
brought the food supplies and was murdered. Kurt then wants everyone to explore
this shitty place.
Taurus
is an asshole to the rats and Duke tries to act all cool with them as he tries
to grab one and he gets bitten.
Duke’s
response to this.
Shoot
The Fucking Thing With A Shotgun.
Several
members then find a guy in a chair with his back turned and when they turn him
around, guess what they find?
Of
Course They Find Him Dead
Video
decides to be a dick to both Myrna and Chocolate by scaring them.
Video
laughs about this, but Chocolate puts a rifle to his face and threatens to blow
his brains out if he does it again. Diana decides to impress Kurt with her new
headgear as she found a hat, but there is a body also in that closet.
Come
On, Diana…You Are Acting Like That Corpse Decided To Have It A Little Surprise
Butt Sex.
Noah
and Lilith go to check downstairs.
I
Don’t Know Why, But Lilith Seems To Be Okay Dressing Like She Is A Magician’s
Assistant
Kurt
finds an old computer and decides to get Video to try and start up the damn
thing. The girls encourage him with Chocolate implying she will sleep with him
if he gets it to work as Video says it is a video game system. And surprise,
surprise…Video gets the computer to work (to hell with this being a video game
system). We then find out that this is a computer and Video laments about never
being able to get to play a video game.
While
the computer is on, Lilith and Noah find that downstairs houses a greenhouse
with plenty of purified water.
Kurt
doesn’t like all of this as computers and corpses make for a bad mixture. They
find a text that says “Total Elimination Group” and Deus surmises that the
group are now the corpses. Lilith comes in with her terrible dubbing and tells
the group they have found strange and wonderful things, all the while acting
like she just had an orgasm. Apparently, the group before them found a way of
naturally reproducing every known plant, which means they have fruits and
vegetables as food as well. Noah is still curious that with all this knowledge,
how this group got themselves killed.
That
night, the new primitives bring the dead bodies outside and cremate them.
Oh
Come On, It Wasn’t Like Any Of Them Were Going To Becoming Monsters Like In
John Carpenter’s The Thing. You Could Have Just Left Them Outside.
Oh,
I Guess I Should Introduce The Last Of This Group In Lucifer. I Think You All
Know The Reason Why There Isn’t Much To Talk About With Him. *Slit Throat
Motion*
Afterwards,
nothing like roasting some corpses gets some people horny and Video decides he
wants Chocolate to pay up for that promise of sleeping with him if he got the
machine to work. Chocolate decides to renege on the deal because she doesn’t
feel like it. But she makes out with him and says to call that a down payment,
meaning eventually she will do it. The nighttime corpse smell also gets the
rats out onto the streets.
Or
Guinea Pigs Painted And Dressed Like Rats. Hey, Those Were Bruno Mattei’s Words
On A DVD Extra On How They Made Some Of The Rats, Not Mine (Even Though I Think They May Be More Gerbils Than Guinea Pigs. I Guess I Should
Mention That I Have This Strange Allergic Reaction To Guinea Pig Fur So Keep
Those Damn Things Away From Me
Of
course none of the group can get to sleep because Lucifer and Lilith decide to
have sex in a sleeping bag.
Taurus
gets pissed off and tells the two to take their lovemaking outside so everyone
else can get some sleep. The two have problems getting the zipper to the
sleeping bag open, but after a few jokes about the two having these issues,
Taurus helps them out. Taurus also mentions that it is calmness that helped him
get the two out and says that it is a real virtue of the strong. So the two
lovebirds decide to go outside and get down with their bad selves.
Meanwhile,
Noah eats and orange and hears noise, all the while unaware of the rat looking
at him.
You
Bastard, I Was Saving That Orange For Tonight. This Means War.
Oh
and in case you were wondering if this was a real Italian sleaze film that is
still unrated in the United States.
Blatant
Nudity…That I Am Censoring.
Lilith
says that she is too tired after the sex so they can’t go a second round, which
makes Lucifer so upset that he gets dressed and goes outside to be alone.
Lilith decides to go back to sleep in the sleeping bag. As Lucifer is in the
bar area, he finds an unopened bottle of alcohol and remarks that the drink is
still incredible (even if it is several centuries old). While Noah is still in
the greenhouse, he notices that rats are coming down the tubes.
And
The Rats Infect The Water
Noah
starts throwing the rats around for dirtying up the clean water that they have
always wanted. Unfortunately, this pisses off the rats and they decide to fall
onto him by a lot.
Or
Some Jackass Stage Hand Decided To Dump Live Rats All Over This Actor (Which I
Am Sure Is How They Legit Did This Knowing Some Of The Exploitation Cinema
Crews Do Things).
Outside,
Lucifer drinks and in his now drunken stupor, starts taunting the rats about
wanting to have some fun with them and then says that if they are the only
guests, then he wants nothing to do with them. Everyone else is asleep, except
for Myrna who is going to be that person who gets nervous about every freaking
thing. Lucifer loses his bottle of alcohol and decides to go down into the
sewers to get it. And if Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has taught me anything,
the sewer has a lot of rats in them and since you are not the Rat King or
Splinter, then you are normally not going to be welcome down there, especially
if you are drunk.
Death
By Rat Dumping
Another
rat decides that he is going to chew his way into that sleeping bag Lilith is
in because he must be the pervert rat that needs to see Lilith’s bush.
*Singing*
When A Rat…Loves A Wo…man
It
doesn’t go over well for Lilith.
SURPRISE
RAT SEX!!!
In
reality, the rat is eating her inside the bag and Lilith is unable to get that
zipper working so she is dead.
Probably
Not The Best Face To Go Out On
Lilith’s
screams wake everyone else up so they check to see what has happened. They find
Lilith’s body and think that Lucifer did it by strangulation. Well, that is
until a rat comes out of her damn mouth.
I
Would Like To Remind You That There Are No Bite Marks Or Holes In Her And With
The Way She Was Sleeping, That Rat Literally Ate Through Her Vagina And Was
Able To Get Out All The Way Through The Mouth. That Is Why I Made All Those Sex
Jokes With The Rat During Her Death Scene.
“Ooh…Nasty”
Indeed, Tregard
Myrna
freaks out thinking that the rats will eat everyone and everyone calms her down
and assures her that rats don’t eat people. Well, that is until Noah comes to
the room with rats eating him alive.
Sadly
No One Said “Correction: Rats Do Eat People”
And
instead of getting the rats off of Noah, Kurt decides the best action is to set
his compadre on fire with the flamethrower.
You
Saw No Other Option There, Kurt? None, Whatsoever? Okay, I Guess
Noah
runs around while on fire and more concerned with the rats eating him before
falling over dead. They go after him and Kurt decides to Duke shoot an already
dead Noah to “finish him off”.
Oh
Come On!!!
Myrna
is going crazy asking why did they have to die and honestly, I have no idea why
Noah had to die. I mean, I think they could have gotten the rats off of him
easy and even though Noah wouldn’t have much of a face anymore, he would still
be alive. Chocolate of course tells Myrna to get a hold of herself. Duke hears
all the rat noises and calls on the rats to come out in the open by calling
them afraid. Video wonders what happened to Lucifer and all of them decide to
go back inside to look for him. Kurt has Taurus and Chocolate come with him so
he can check the greenhouse. They suspect this is where Noah got attacked.
Myrna goes even crazier and screams about not wanting the rats to eat her as
she falls down the stairs.
Someone
Really Might Need To Call The Wah-mbulence For Her
They
then go back outside to still look for Lucifer. Deus finds him and tells the
other that Lucifer is dead. Kurt gets mad and shoots the rats with his
flamethrower.
Taurus
also gives the group the bad news of them being stuck because the rats chewed
through the tires of their vehicles.
As
they check on the bikes, Kurt overreacts and punches Taurus as he was
apparently supposed to be watching them. Video has to play peacekeeper and
tells Kurt that if they fight amongst themselves, then they will be rat food.
Duke decides this is the perfect moment to blame all of this on Kurt because he
is the leader, basically seeking the position himself. Chocolate plays
peacekeeper this time and gets mad at the two for thinking about their pride
first. So they all ultimately decide to board up everything and keep themselves
inside till mourning.
Myrna
again has a bit of hysterics over a freaking spider and Kurt has to slap some
sense into her.
Video
thinks the rats might be attacking, but Duke just says it is just Myrna going
crazy. He also says that it will be better if he goes on guard duty and
everyone else can do what they want. They get the place boarded up and Taurus
wonders how the rats could have killed them. Myrna then asks why the rats would
do this since they have done nothing to them. Nothing, huh? I guess being an
asshole to them since the minute you got here was nothing.
Deus
says that their instinct to kill has been awakened, although there is no way to
know how. Taurus talks about that back in his childhood when he was living in
the mountains, the rats attacked their cave and they went after the supplies.
He also adds that these rats are different as they don’t seem interested in
food. Myrna agrees and Duke tells everyone to start talking about something
else or you will start to lower morale.
Deus
says that humans always think they are superior, even if there is a higher
intelligence. He says that before the civilized world was destroyed, rats were
made to live in the sewers under the great cities, but since it is destroyed
and since the humans went underground, the rats went above ground and talked
about reading that rats were in communities. If an outside rat showed up, they
would soon kill it. So the idea is the rats are killing because they believe
this group of humans are intruding on their community. The rats can tell an
intruder by the smell of their urine.
Duke
doesn’t believe any of this and thinks that whoever wrote that book that Deus
read was writing it for people as gullible as Deus is. Kurt doesn’t think it is
funny under the current predicament. Taurus then proclaims that even if the
rats think they are intruding, the place is theirs and they are hanging onto
it. Chocolate realizes they forgot to barricade a single window and since Diana
is near that window, she gets attacked.
Way
to ruin my joke there, Joe. Of course unlike what they did with Noah, they
actually decide to actually get the rats off of Diana. Was Kurt out of fuel for
his flamethrower? They barricade the door and have to stop Duke from shooting
at the rats. They lay Diana on the bed because she is covered in bites and may
get sick. Chocolate tells Taurus to go downstairs and get some water so she can
treat the wounds before they get infected. Taurus goes to get some water, but
realizes that he forgot to bring any water before they barricade the place.
Kurt then says that they will get some when dawn comes.
Chocolate
then says that Diana needs the water. Kurt then wants Video to stay behind to
watch the girls and everyone else goes with him to get the water. Duke doesn’t
want to go out there so Kurt makes the decision to have Duke stay with the
girls. Duke tries to have the others stay with him and have Kurt go alone to
get the water, but the rest of the guys side with Kurt on this issue.
While
the guys are out looking for water, Duke talks Myrna into siding with him and
if they come back to help him keep the door closed. The other guys get to the
basement, but realize the water has been contaminated.
They
decide to head back, but Deus tells them that the stairs are now covered with
rats.
Kurt
decides that now is the perfect time to use his flamethrower, but the
flamethrower doesn’t work anymore. Geez…it’s almost as if using the
flamethrower on Noah was fucking stupid. The rats start coming down in a
preparation for an attack and Video tells Kurt that he needs to think of
something. Kurt has Taurus give him his weapon so he can create a makeshift
torch.
Kurt
has everyone follow him in single file as they try to go up the stairs with the
torch to scare the rats off. Most of them make it up, but unfortunately Taurus
is attacked by the rats. Kurt wants to go save Taurus, but the others say there
is nothing they can do so they all run, leaving Taurus to his demise.
The
remaining three try to get back into the entrance, but Duke has convinced Myrna
to help him keep them out and has a shotgun at Chocolate to keep her at bay
while Diana is still weak to do anything. The guys on the outside realize that
Duke has betrayed them as the rats start coming.
Chocolate
gets the idea of lying to Myrna about a rat and Myrna freaks out which causes
Duke to lose his weapon.
Chocolate
takes this moment to point her gun at the two and forces them open the door for
the other guys. Kurt of course immediately doesn’t take Duke’s betrayal well.
Duke
tries to plead for his life, saying he only did what he thought was best for
the girls. Myrna pleads with Kurt not to kill him as Duke promised to save her
from the rats and blames herself for listening to him. This of course works and
Kurt decides to let Duke live.
He
then yells that next time he won’t be so lenient and makes sure to put extra
emphasis on the word “lenient”.
With
the rats all outside just hanging around, Video just can’t stand being stuck in
here and wishes to find Taurus. Kurt tells him that there is no point in going
out there and to just stay cool. Chocolate says that Diana’s temperature is
getting high and wonders how they are going to get it down. Kurt reassures them
that it won’t be long before dawn breaks and maybe the fever will come down
soon so they can make a break for it at daylight. Deus says the rats won’t let
them leave. Duke says that means they will have to stick tight for a while and
everyone needs is some guts. Okay…why is Duke still being allowed to speak
after what he did? If this group was the least bit intelligent, they would have
told Duke that his opinion no longer counts in the matter after what he did.
They
start hearing screams and think that it might be Taurus. Kurt thinks they
should do everything they can to help Taurus if it is him, but Duke snidely
says that the boss is wanting to use everyone else as rats, resulting in Kurt
grabbing at Duke’s throat. Kurt tells Duke that if he utters one more word, he
is dead. They have a flashlight and check outside. Of course, the rats are
still out there so the group goes back inside.
Kurt
wants to call the rats bluff and do it alone, but Video says that would be
suicide. Video says they are coming too so of course because they are not
leaving Duke alone with the girls, everyone is coming with them except Diana so
she can rest and be safer. They think the rats are ignoring the group so Video
decides to go first just in case. After several minutes of careful walking and
the rats mostly ignoring him, Video talks about how everything seems okay. Kurt
has Deus go with the women and Kurt says that he will cover them from behind.
Duke wants to go, but Kurt puts a gun to him and tells him to wait. After a
minute, he finally lets Duke attempt to slowly make it to the other side. Deus,
Chocolate, and Myrna get to the other side with Video. Duke also eventually
makes it to the other side as well. Duke then makes a remark that if he is the
judge, this will be the end of Kurt.
Kurt
slowly goes towards the others through the rats. It is at this point the rats
make huge noises which terrifies every one. Kurt tells them all to run. He is
quickly able to get to the other side and rejoin the others. Duke once again
decides to have Myrna help him betray the others. The rest find Taurus at the
bar and call out to him, but of course…
Yep…everything
Taurus was doing was all the rats inside him moving his body around like a huge
puppet (although I don’t know how they got him to scream). The body explodes
for some reason and rats are all over the group.
Diana
(despite her fever) comes out with the rest of the group and sees that Taurus
is dead. Kurt comforts her, but realizes that both Duke and Myrna are gone and
suspects betrayal again. They find out that Duke is in one of the vehicles
still trying to get it to start (despite the lack of good wheels) so they go to
stop him. But of course, Duke starts shooting at them because this vehicle
seems to have a machine gun mounted on it.
Duke
tells them not to come a step further as he and Myrna are leaving this place
without them. Kurt tells him to leave Myrna, but Duke says he is no longer
taking orders from him. The gun jams and the rest think this is a good chance
to get at them. Kurt tells the two that they better come out and join the rest
of the group, even starting a count to three. Duke then gets desperate as he
has a grenade and Myrna.
Duke
says they better cease firing if they care about her or they go boom. Video
thinks Duke is only bluffing, but Kurt tells him that he isn’t and he is afraid
they are going to have to play along with him. Kurt says they will put down
their guns so Duke can make a run for it, but he asks that Duke leave Myrna with
them. Duke says no to this agreement. The group puts the guns down, but a rat
comes flying at Duke.
This
causes Duke to freak out and throw a grenade at the rats in the vehicle…not
taking into account that he and Myrna may be in the blast radius. They of
course get caught in the explosion, Duke gets launches by it, and Myrna burns
up as the vehicle catches on fire.
As
everyone else ducks, Diana backs away slowly and silently.
Diana
walks groggily slowly in the bar. Chocolate laments that Myrna died for her
fears. Deus says that at least for them, this nightmare is finished. Kurt
realizes that Diana is missing and wonders where she is. They run to find Diana
and split up with Kurt going one way and everyone else going another. The
search ends tragically as Diana goes to the second story to confront the rats
alone. She calls them out and talks about how tired she is of all of this
happening. She then slits her own wrists with broken glass so the rats can have
food and hopefully leave the others alone.
Kurt
discovers her body.
Kurt
is affected emotionally by this loss and in his grief, starts shooting at the
rats eating her. The others hear the gunfire and go to check on Kurt.
Chocolate, Video, and Deus find Kurt in tears as he points them to his late
girlfriend’s body. They are also
saddened by this tragedy as Deus reveals that Diana committed suicide by
slashing her wrists. He also sees that Kurt shot her and wonders why. Kurt in
tears explains that he was only shooting at the rats who were eating her body
and laments that only four of them are left. Kurt finally says what they are
going through is worse than being dead as the rats are stronger than they are.
Chocolate tries to console Kurt by telling him not to think such negative
thoughts as she isn’t ready to die yet and he is their leader so lead them.
More
noises is made and the rats start coming out of the second story fireplace.
The
four remaining primitives decide to flee back to the computer room. They see
that the rats may have moved Lilith’s body into the room to scare them. Kurt
has Deus help him get the body out of the room, which they do. Chocolate finds
something the Video thinks may be a magic lantern.
But
of course, it is not a magic lamp, but audio starts coming out of it. It is
from a scientist and he talks about Operation Return To Light, which was a
failure and the group never were able to get rescued. We then learn the
operation was to overcome the damages from pollution and radioactivity and the
failure was due to rats, which they thought were long extinct. But the rats
populated the sewers of the big cities before the holocaust (when the bombs
dropped) instead. The bomb caused a mutation that made the rats smarter as they
attacked the group only when they took their protective gear off.
He
theorizes that these rats were upset when they invaded their world underground
as the humans had to do during the beginning, but they moved to the surface. He
warns the people that hear this message to stay in that room as they will be
safe there from the rats and there only hope for escape is if the other team
reaches them. The person on the radio stops signifying his death as the last
thing he says is the rats are coming onto him.
Kurt
thinks that there are people like them still living under the ground, which is
incredible. Yeah, didn’t the narrator say they were called the new humanity? I
guess these primitives thought that humanity died underground. Deus says that
it is obvious now that the rats have taken over the world. Deus thinks these
rats want to take everything that once belonged to humans and supposedly they
are intruding on what they now own. Video then asks Deus about that book he
once read which said the enemy of rats were other rats and not human beings.
Deus says that mutation must have changed that and that something terrible must
have happened underground that pushed these humans to the surface.
Unfortunately,
the place that was supposed to be safe for them was not safe at all as the rats
have basically been able to break down the rusted steel door. Kurt tells
everyone to get ready save their necks as the door won’t hold forever. Kurt
tells Chocolate and Video to move that console and barricade themselves in.
Kurt says he will try to stop the rats, despite the fact that it has been
established that they can’t stop them.
Outside
it is daytime and we see people in protective gear coming out from underground
so maybe they may be saved.
The
new group starts to smoke out the rats to death and the killer animals retreat
from the new people here. Back to our main characters, Chocolate and Video have
barricaded themselves while Kurt and Deus try to hold the door. Before asking
why the rats are still attacking (because I know I will get it) you have to
remember that this new group of people are being thorough so it will take time
to get to them which is why we are seeing the rats still attacking them while
retreating from the new people.
Kurt
is crushed by the door while Deus gets eaten by the rats as he is pinned by
Lilith’s body the rats were puppeteering.
Video
wants to help the two, but Chocolate tells him that he will die to and he would
also be going against Kurt’s orders. Kurt and Deus ultimately die as Video and
Chocolate are trapped in that barricaded area. Chocolate wants Video to kill
her with a sharp object she found. At rat goes after them, but Video stabs the
rat with the weapon.
Video
then realizes that most of the rats have just disappeared and they wonder what
is happening. They notice and can feel the smoke, which is poisonous so they
must escape. Video also tells Chocolate that obviously the men have come which
is why the rats are gone. As they run towards outside, they are coughing
heavily from the gas and they get to the bar before Video goes down on his knees.
The humans come and see Chocolate and she is happy to see rescue as they take
her and Video outside.
Unfortunately,
her happiness changes when one of the group takes his mask off. Remember when
they mentioned that something must have happened underground to cause these
people to come to the surface? Well, something did happen and it changes
everything.
And
with Chocolate’s scream with the title reappearing and this awesome twist, this
film comes to an end.
Despite
being put in with all the other Mattei movies by the average person, most
people have called this one of Bruno Mattei’s most watchable films. Geratta
Geratta (who played Chocolate) would go on to her most known role as being the
person who started the chaos that happened in Lamberto Bava’s Demons. Ottaviano
Dell’Acqua (who played Kurt) and Massimo Vanni (who played Taurus) were real
friends as overall, they would be in 9 movies together. But sadly, people do
pass away and in this one, we have two who are no longer with us. Ted Russoff
(who dubbed the lines for Kurt) passed away in 2013 at the age of 74 due to an
auto accident. The other one would be earlier and that would be director Bruno
Mattei, who died in 2007 at the age of 75 due to a brain tumor.
I
love this film and don’t understand all the hatred for it. Yeah, the rats may
be not really giving a damn and to that I say, they are freaking rats and I
would rather have rats who don’t care really there instead of CGI rats like we
would see nowadays. The actors may have over the top facial expressions, but
that was how they were directed and it would be better than if they didn’t. The
dubbing may be bad, but bad dubbing is normal for me and if you have seen
enough foreign niche films, you would be used to it too. The make-up and gore
is great and the plot is actually a solid one for the most part. The twist is
really great and has been set up well. This is definitely the best of Bruno
Mattei’s films and this is easily the best killer rat movie out there.
Now
it is time for me to do a film from the 90s and boy, do I have one that people
have wanted me to do for a while and others have wanted me not to do this film.
But the majority of people find this film below average for whatever reason and
despite me and plenty of people I know liking this movie, I must induct it and
since before the death of Roddy Piper, I was going to do a Tim Curry month and
wouldn’t you know it, Tim Curry is in this film. It also has Monster Crap
alumni Ernie Hudson (Dragonball: Evolution), Carolyn Seymour (Mortal Kombat:
Annihalation), Kevin Grevioux (Batman Forever), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (The
Thing prequel), and Frank Welker (several films).
If
you had not guessed by now with this being Monster Crap, here it is.
