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Rats: Night of Terror

Original title: Rats - Notte di terrore
  • 1984
  • Unrated
  • 1h 37m
IMDb RATING
4.7/10
3.6K
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Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
ItalianB-HorrorHorrorSci-Fi

In a post-apocalyptic earth, where most of humanity lives underground, a group of surface people stumble upon an abandoned lab that was trying to bring life back to the earth's surface, but ... Read allIn a post-apocalyptic earth, where most of humanity lives underground, a group of surface people stumble upon an abandoned lab that was trying to bring life back to the earth's surface, but the place is run over by vicious rats.In a post-apocalyptic earth, where most of humanity lives underground, a group of surface people stumble upon an abandoned lab that was trying to bring life back to the earth's surface, but the place is run over by vicious rats.

  • Directors
    • Bruno Mattei
    • Claudio Fragasso
  • Writers
    • Claudio Fragasso
    • Bruno Mattei
    • Hervé Piccini
  • Stars
    • Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
    • Geretta Geretta
    • Massimo Vanni
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.7/10
    3.6K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Bruno Mattei
      • Claudio Fragasso
    • Writers
      • Claudio Fragasso
      • Bruno Mattei
      • Hervé Piccini
    • Stars
      • Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
      • Geretta Geretta
      • Massimo Vanni
    • 55User reviews
    • 82Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
    Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
    • Kurt
    • (as Richard Raymond)
    Geretta Geretta
    • Chocolate
    • (as Janna Ryann)
    Massimo Vanni
    Massimo Vanni
    • Taurus
    • (as Alex McBride)
    Gianni Franco
    Gianni Franco
    • Video
    • (as Richard Cross)
    Ann-Gisel Glass
    • Myrna
    Jean-Christophe Brétignière
    • Lucifer
    • (as Cristoph Bretner)
    Fausto Lombardi
    Fausto Lombardi
    • Deus
    • (as Tony Lombardo)
    Henry Luciani
    Henry Luciani
    • Duke
    Cindy Leadbetter
    Cindy Leadbetter
    • Diana
    Christian Fremont
    • Noah
    • (as Chris Fremont)
    Moune Duvivier
    • Lilith
    • Directors
      • Bruno Mattei
      • Claudio Fragasso
    • Writers
      • Claudio Fragasso
      • Bruno Mattei
      • Hervé Piccini
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    User reviews55

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    1nhlgumby

    "Stupid machine needs a kick in the balls!" -Video

    I can't believe I haven't commented on this movie before! This was one of the first bad horror movies that I watched that got me hooked on B-movies. This is like a legend to me, alongside Blood Feast and Laserblast, that has helped pave the way for finding the most obscure of B-movies know to man. But enough about the legend of "Rats: Night of Terror," let's talk about the movie.

    After I was done laughing and rewinding so many parts of this video, I began taking down the best quotes from the movie, and believe me, there were a lot.

    "Stupid machine needs a kick in the balls!" -Video

    (with flour all over her head, dancing around) "I'm white! I'm white!!" -Chocolate

    (sounding really important) "I read it in a book" -Deus

    "Stupid thing doesn't work any more! Sh*t! SH*T!" -Kurk

    (while holding a spike, not a gun) "You make one move, and I'll blow your guts out!" -Chocolate

    All these quotes and so much more make this movie all the more enjoyable to watch. Seeing rats constantly fall out from the ceiling, watching people being bitten when a rat is simply falling on their head then rolling off onto the floor. The only feeling I felt for this movie, was one girl who WOULDN'T STOP SCREAMING! No matter what it was she saw, she screamed her head off, and it drove me crazy! I was rooting for her to die first. And even though she didn't die first, she did die, and I cheered.

    If you ever decide to watch this movie, don't drink while you do it, because you'll miss most of the good little stuff of the movie. Stuff like characters using spikes to try and hold rats at bay. This is a movie you need to soak all of it in. Enjoy.

    **Final Judgement** Stupid movie needs a kick in the balls.

    -Scott-
    5ShellyM

    Meh!

    This like many Italian post nuclear films of the 1980's is much the same. The characters were bland, but a lot more sympathetic than those in the Final Executioner. They were supposed to be a warrior group, but acted more like wusses - my four pet kitties would take on the rats with more bravery. One, of the character's performance was so hammy, I thought "Are you totally serious?"

    Diana "I Want To Die!, as if she was giving an overly theatrical performance, rather than acting with a bit of commonsense. Lady, seriously, come on! The male characters really weren't much braver in terms of their fighting ability. Having said that, I liked Kurt, Taurus and Chocolate
    Blor

    Oh boy. They don't come funnier than this.

    This is probably one of the funniest movies I have ever seen in my entire life. Rats is hilariously inept and goofy beyond imagination. First of all you have the scenes of Rats attacking. You can almost spot the stagehands throwing the rats towards the actors... then there's the scenes of horror when the actors discover some evil, nasty mutant rats... who just sits there, doing nothing that would resemble anything remotely scary. And lets not forget the conveyor belt. There is a scene where our bold and poorly dubbed heroes try to get away from a teeming mass of mutant rats... and the mass consists of furry things (who does not even move) on a conveyor belt. Oh boy, oh boy. Then there's the ending... This movie would be an awesome doublebill with Bruno Mattei's equally inept Hell of the living dead. They sure don't come funnier than this.
    Dethcharm

    "Computers And Corpses Are A Bad Mixture!"...

    It's 225 years past the nuclear holocaust. We are introduced to a band of post-apocalyptic bikers who are amazingly clean, especially their hair, which holds its body even on a long-dead planet. Their clothes are equally well preserved, and pressed. Even their spiked armbands are brand new! Perhaps this is due to the radioactive fallout.

    Happening upon a ghost town, our anti-heroes search for supplies, soon realizing that the only living things left other than themselves are rats. Lots of rats. These are no ordinary rodents, since they devour human flesh. Even after several half-eaten corpses are found, the well-groomed bikers refuse to leave town.

    When night falls, the real hoopla begins, and there are more rats running around than at Willard's birthday party! The bikers remain oblivious. Nudity ensues. Will any of these imbeciles survive?

    RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR is one of those hilarious Italian horror films from the 1980's- the scene in which a rat puppet emerges from a biker's mouth is a particularly enjoyable moment of merriment! It contains the requisite gore, female nekkidness, big-big hair, and unnecessary animal cruelty.

    As rubbish cinema goes, this is Grade-A vermin droppings. It's a howl to watch, in spite of the numerous stretches of mind-destroying dullness.

    In the end, it's just a good thing that rats love cheeeze...
    sick_boy420xxx

    A step above your normal low-budget horror

    What starts out looking like a poor Mad Max type of film about a post-apocalyptic nightmare ends up a fairly well-done low-budget horror flick about a gang of futuristic nomads attacked by a whole lotta nasty rodents who are hungry for humans. The film unfolds as the rats slowly take control of the situation and trap the humans in ruins of a long-abandoned city, and prepare for the siege. The violence is pretty graphic as the rats seem to kill people from the inside out, and there are some nasty scenes of rats popping out of dead bodies. This one should satisfy horror fans with its violence, somewhat interesting storyline, and a bizarre and unusual ending. Recommended for fans; one of the better killer rat flicks.

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    Related interests

    Lamberto Maggiorani in Bicycle Thieves (1948)
    Italian
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    B-Horror
    Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby (1968)
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    • Trivia
      The abandoned city sets featured heavily in the film were the New York City exteriors built at Cinecitta for Once Upon a Time in America (1984) which by this point had fallen under disrepair.
    • Goofs
      In the first attack of a rat upon a human, the rat bites the character Duke's hand and then leaps to his neck and face seemingly and bites there. Later on, however, there is no evidence either on his neck or face when he was clearly bitten on one area or the other or both.
    • Quotes

      Video: [trying to fix a broken computer] This stupid machine needs a kick in the balls!

    • Crazy credits
      The movie abruptly ends with 'FIN', and follows with a minute of music without any credits playing.
    • Alternate versions
      The film ran into censorship problems in Ontario, Canada. The CIC Video version that was eventually passed is missing the shot of a rat emerging from the dead girl's mouth.
    • Connections
      Featured in Hell Rats of the Living Dead (2002)

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    • Release date
      • December 5, 1984 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • France
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Rats: Nights of Terror
    • Filming locations
      • Incir De Paolis Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Beatrice Film
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 37m(97 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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