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Willard has a dead end job with a boss who hates him, a sick but
still very complaining mother and not a single friend... Until
one day when Willard decides to put mouse traps up in the
basement. When he one day catches a rat, he can't bare to see
it suffer and decide to give it some treatment so that it'll
get better instead. He names the rat Socrates. With Socrates
by his side, Willard and his newly found friends decide to take
a little revenge on those who made his life miserable for him.
I went in kicking and screaming when I watched this. I generally
hate killer rat movies, they are usually so terrible that you
want to cry. I wouldn't exactly call this an exception, but it
was better than most killer rat movies. This was such an obvious
remake that it would take a fool not to realise that it's an old
classic from the beginning. What bothered me about that was that
it didn't feel like it belonged in this time, it felt as if I
was watching the original all over again, only with some touch-
ups and cooler effects.
For being a cinema movie, the directing is surprisingly bad.
It really felt as if this belonged among the many other DTV
killer creature flicks. The acting is brilliant from Crispin
Glover who plays the part as the demented and lonely Willard.
Crispin Glover actually has experience from horrorfilms before,
having starred in Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter, and really,
he has come a long way as an actor since then.
This was indeed better than I had expected, but it was still
a very average and quite slow movie. I had the whole movie
figured out from scene one (and I saw the original after this,
but didn't feel like doing a review of it as I felt that people
would just be confused seeing to Willard movies in the new
review section) and the entire movie was just very predictable.
To tell you the truth, I don't know if it deserves 3 stars, but
keeping me interested in a movie is a pretty hard job and this
succeeded so I felt as if it deserved a little extra star for that.
The least gory killer rat movie I have ever seen. All we get is
like a little blood splatter and some rats crawling into a body.
Very disappointing, at least they could've splurted on some ketchup.
Very standard cinema soundtrack. Some of those strings that
we always get to build up a creepy atmosphere and some... umm...
musical music? I'm not sure what you call it.
Stays too close to the original and I wonder why they didn't
just re-release the original and save a couple of bucks. Predictable,
but still quite entertaining, sometimes felt more as a comedy
than a horrormovie though, unintentionally I'm sure. I think
you should see this just to support horrormovies at the cinemas
but it's definitely not a must.
Review By: AnthroFred
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