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Rats

1984 1h 30m Horror Sci-Fi List
Reviews 30% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Intelligent rats trap people looking for food and water in an abandoned 21st-century city. Read More Read Less

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Michael Coldwell Starburst There's plenty of ratty nastiness, all wonderfully pre-CGI and much of it quite well done, without ever hitting Fulci-levels of ickyness. That said, fans of 80s video rental gore will be delighted with the deaths on offer. Nov 12, 2018 Full Review Alex Sandell Juicy Cerebellum It's there to watch once, laugh at and then use the DVD for a coaster. Rated: 2/10 Oct 18, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jens B Bruno Mattei films are like those wet and soft Burger King French fries you crave when it's 2 a.m. and you're drunk: disgusting, (probably) bad for you, but so delicious. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 12/18/23 Full Review KEVIN C Set in a time ‘After the bombs', the world is a wasteland and infested with rats. A group of people stumble upon an underground lab where they will soon be trapped by the deadly vermin. This was pretty fun. Kind of a siege movie with rats. There's something to be said when a movie can give you the creeps and the use of the many rats does it well here. Directed by Italian horror maestro Bruno Mattei. This makes you want to shower after watching it. Good sign. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review justin t Do not watch this garbage. It has no redeeming features. Not a single one. Bad acting, crap dialogue, rubbish dubbing, no atmosphere, terrible music, dire ‘special' effects, painful story, dreadful direction etc. Even being drunk wouldn't save this one. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I was happy to finally cross this one off the list recently, but if I'm being honest it wasn't exactly worth the wait.The film takes place in a post apocalyptic world in which humans scrabble around to survive and ultimately find themselves up against not only one another but mutated rat creatures who want to eat them. It's an okay time-waster, but I won't come back to this anytime soon. Rental? Maybe? Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Okay Italian warriors-of-the-wasteland tale involving a gang who come under attack by a group of mutated rats. It's essentially a post-apocalyptic version of "Assault on Precinct 13" except it's wasteland warriors under siege by rats instead of cops under siege from gangs. From the director Bruni Mattei, his name on the project certainly doesn't lead you to expect a quality film, which this certainly not. However,r compared to most Mattei films, this one is actually better than most, but that's a pretty low bar when your filmography includes "Porno Holocaust" and "S.S. Extermination Love Camp." But the weirdest part of this movie is that it starts out with a prologue explaining how a large group of survivors live comfortably in underground cities and that they were at war with the "New Primitives" who chose to live above ground, except that almost all of the movie only follows the aboveground wastelands and almost never even shows these underground city dwellers. So overall, the film is pretty bad, but it does have better than expected production design (mostly due to it reusing sets from Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America"), some alright gory effects and loads of REAL rats. And one interesting note of trivia, this film was presented in Germany as the third film in the Bronx Warriors series, even though it really has no connection to the previous two films, but does admittedly have that same low budget Italian vibe to it. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A really amusing Italian giallo film involving a wacked out bunch of drifters and a million rats. Not really scary most of the time and just enough gore and sex to make it amusing. A couple of points: the rats in the film are the ugliest bunch you'll see in a long time with most having the worst hair day of their rat lives! Some also have the reddest eyes of any rat which may be a special effect. Second, if you're covered with rats, don't let your buddy with a flamethrower help you out!! Pretty amusing film overall... Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Intelligent rats trap people looking for food and water in an abandoned 21st-century city.
Director
Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso
Producer
Jacques Leitienne
Screenwriter
Hervé Piccini, Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei
Production Co
Beatrice Film
Genre
Horror, Sci-Fi
Original Language
Italian
Release Date (Streaming)
May 3, 2017
Runtime
1h 30m
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