Directed by Daniel Mann
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, Prism Entertainment)
Bruce Davison plays Willard, the most tortured mama's boy since Anthony Perkins in Psycho. His boss Ernest Borgnine pushes him around at work and covets his house, mom is bedridden and harasses him to do housework and he can't seem to connect to the cute secretary Sondra Locke. He befriends some rats in the back yard, eventually bringing them inside where they quickly multiply and take over his life. He trains them to take orders and wastes no time in sabotaging his boss's birthday party. Later, he takes it even further and has the rats kill his boss at work in the movie's most memorable scene. The lead rat, Ben, seems to possess some kind of intelligence and wants to reverse the pecking order. Willard refuses, leading to a rather predictable ending.
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