Rat Man

Rat Man

Rat Man

Of course I hadn't heard about this 1988 Italian movie titled "Quella Villa In Fondo Al Parco" (aka "Rat Man") prior to stumbling upon it by random chance here in 2024. When I sat down to watch it, I have to admit that I was harboring absolutely zero expectations to director Giuliano Carnimeo's 1988 movie. The storyline in the movie was bland, so very, very bland. I am amazed that writers Dardano Sacchetti and Elisa Briganti could collectively manage to put together something that devoid of contents. The narrative was just prancing ahead at a monotonous pace without offering much of anything interesting to the audience. In fact, most of the movie you only get to see the "rat man" from it's point of view. And that just didn't cut it for me, that was just not quality entertainment. Sure, it might have worked back in the late 1980s, but with the amount of horror movie's I've sat through over the last 40 years, then it just didn't do it for me. Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the actors or actresses on the cast list, as the Italian cinema is not my go-to-cinema for entertainment. And I have to say that actor Nelson de la Rosa (playing Mousey) was given a rather derogatory character and role to play, wasn't he? Sure, it could fly back then, but not so much in today's society. Visually then the movie was not good. It looked like something that crawled out of the 1970s, to be honest. While I managed to sit through the movie in its entire bland 88 minute runtime, I can't claim to be particularly impressed or entertained by what director Giuliano Carnimeo delivered. And this is by no means a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time, nor is it a movie that I would recommend for horror fans to rush out and get to watch. My rating of director Giuliano Carnimeo's 1988 movie "Quella Villa In Fondo Al Parco" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

Nelson De La Rosa is absolutely horrifying in his portrayal of a half human / half rat beast that preys on showering women with nice Italian *. This movie is a must-have for any true cultivist. Imagine your flesh ripped by sharp claws on the end of little crazy straw arms, teeth gnawing at your face, blood pouring while your unsuspecting girlfriend showers in the adjacent room, unknowingly flashing bits of flesh... just enough to be torn to shreds. Any fan of Nelson's should see this movie! You may know Nelson from some of his other popular characters such as The Little Dancing Man, Mahow Mahow, his role in The Island of Dr. Moreau, and various Dominican television shows... and more recently as the Red Sox good luck charm that broke the Bambino's Curse... for real. See this movie.

Italian exploitation flick about a tiny man/rat hybrid creature that is on a gory killing spree in the Caribbean. Having previously seen the trailer I just knew that this was going to be BAD, and I wasn't wrong, thankfully I picked it up cheap on DVD. Pint sized Nelson de la Rosa does look horrific as the title character. Model Eva Grimaldi looks good in her gratuitous shower scene. However Janet Argen and David Warbeck, two stars of Italian cinema, just sleep through their rather dull roles (for some reason Warbeck has an American accent, quite possibly and needlessly dubbed). Expect awful dubbing, ridiculous scenarios, bad acting and a really stupid plot. This, along with Cannibal Holocaust 2, are the worst examples of Italian horror movies that I have ever seen. Ratman should be flushed down the toilet and left down there!

I saw the movie with no expectations at all; and I walked out of it with a couple of laughs at the expense of it. Worth watching if you don't appreciate your time, or are drunk enough to laugh at poor filmmaking. Or if you are learning cinematography and want to know what NOT to do.

With Halloween coming up,I started looking round for Horror DVDs that I could list on Ebay,and I spotted a title that my dad gave me as a Birthday present!, (I'm not sure what that says about me!)which led to me deciding that it was time to face the Rat Man. The plot: Getting hold of a monkey and a rat, Doctor Olman decides to solve one of life's greatest mysterious:what would happen if you cross breed a monkey and a rat?! It turns out that the answer to the question is a psychotic animal that kills Olman and goes on a killing spree. Informed by the cops that her sister has been killed,a model visits the Caribbean island,only to discover that the police have mistakenly identified another girl as her sister! Joining journalist Fred Williams,the duo start to set out a rat trap. View on the film: Whilst the picture is rather rough round the edges, Shameless deliver a clear soundtrack,and inset "missing" gore/skin shots back into the title. Backed by an icy electronic score from Stefano Mainetti,director Giuliano Carnimeo tails a Slasher atmosphere into the creature feature,as smoothly held first person shots build anticipation for the rat attack.Offering a unique mix of Slasher & creature feature,the screenplay by Dardano Sacchetti & Elisa Briganti ruins any good will that the viewer gives the film by making the long non- Rat Man scenes incredibly dry,with there being no feeling of excitement over the duo getting closer the creature,in a movie which rats out on its promise.

Inspired by a song written by the Fall on their Totales Turns album, Ratman is a late era Italian horror thankfully devoid of haunted houses, but unthankfully full of boring stalk and slash sequences. A scientist on some tropical island has successfully managed to get a rat to breed with a monkey, somehow, and produced a rat monkey capable of poisoning anything it scratches within seconds. This creature of course has escaped and is now chowing down on anything it can get it's teeth into. This includes the bunch of fashion models led by Werner Pochtath (Days of Hell, Cat o Nine Tails), and his main model, Eva Grimaldi (Demons 5). After another model is stalked and killed and mistaken for Eva, her sister Janet Agren (Eaten Alive) goes looking for her, helped by legend David Warbreck (The Last Hunter, The Black Cat). And basically the film turns into Warbreck and Agren doing the old research on what's happening, and Eva trying to avoid being killed for the remainder of the film. Kind of like Tonino Ricci's Panic, also starring Warbreck and Agren. Directed by Guilliamno Carnimeo (director of the great Case of the Bloody Iris and numerous Westerns I've never got round to watching) Ratman is full of cheese, but it's also full of * and gore, so really, where do your priorities lie? This one doesn't go down the old haunted house road as a lot films do from this era, but on the other hand it becomes quite slasher-tastic in the old 'folks trying to hide from a killer' routine. I have the hiccups. It's really annoying. Really annoying. My wife has a remedy for it but she's in bed. Forget this film/ Do you have the hiccups? I hate the hiccups. Makes my stomach hurt from##jpepw;/ O cast/muppets

This flick do has his pros and contras, to be honest I can understand it completely. Just face the reviews, only a few for a cult classic. That must say enough. The problem this flick had was the fact that it was being cut heavily even so that nudity and gore was left out. It did had a few releases and was even sold with the title Terror House. I still don't know what to think about it because to be fair it is a bit boring at some places. Comes because there's no suspense in it. But I have seen it full uncut. It took until 2008 before it was finally released full uncut and sadly Nelson De La Rosa (the ratman) never experienced the final release, he passed away in 2006. Maybe people hate it because the effects weren't the next big thing and there is not really that much of gore to spot. For me it's even goreless, it's more a trashy flick. It's just made for the geeks of bad taste. And it surely won't win an Oscar for acting but there's more than the flick itself. David Warbeck (Fred Williams) famous of a lot of classics (The Beyond (1981)) has the main lead here to help a model's sister to search for her sister. Girls do disappear due the ratman of course. Most notable and been cut out of a lot of DVD's is the ratman as a peeping tom watching Marilyn (Eva Grimaldi) taking a shower. It's as gratuitous as it can get and she goes all the way. people who know Eva know that you will see an extreme beautiful body. And that's what's it all about for a lot of pervs out there, to see the shower scene. A bit of blood here and there, trashy in some way and a lot of Eva walking around and modelling never wearing a bra throughout The Ratman. Gore 1/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 1,5/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5