source: Rats: Night of Terror

Rats - Notte di terrore

Rats: Night of Terror (1983) * 1/2 (out of 4) From Italian director Bruno Mattei comes this pretty awful retelling (aka rip off) of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. In the year 225 A.B. (After the Bomb) the world is nearly wiped clean with the exception of a small group of people who board themselves in a building while the rats try to get in and eat them. Mattei is known for being the biggest hack in Italian horror as well as being a bad filmmaker in the Ed Wood vein. This film certainly deserves a BOMB rating but it's so over the top and stupid you can't help but get several laughs from it. It's a partial rip of the Romero film as well as Fritz Lang's Metropolis but it's in its own world of badness. There's a few gory moments but it needed a lot more.

I first saw this in the late 80s on a rented vhs. Revisited it it recently on a dvd. This film is so bad, that its just laughable. It is absolutely terrible compared to most 80s films. Monotonously lengthy n very dull. A character named chocolate n she has one of the worst racist dialogue in this flick. More cheesy lines: They (rats) r stronger than us. We r only 4 left. Clever rats chewed the tyres. Man, was it so hard for the Clint Eastwood n Chuck Norris lookalikes to jus move on n walk outta the house. The kills scenes r way too dumb n boring, the film does boast of a lousy sex scene with frontal nudity of both the sexes.

"Rats: Night of Terror" is the umpteenth variation on the old people-trapped-in-buildings-battling-zombies theme that George Romero started with "Night of the Living Dead." The fact is, zombies can be very scary, but rats aren't--they can be silly, or, in the case of this movie, boring and completely unthreatening. Bruno Mattei, who also directed "Night of the Zombies," succeeds in getting a few bad laughs out of this whole ordeal, but I found the characters and story to be very dull regardless of 'camp quality.' Since I was falling asleep while I watched this, I wound up fast-forwarding through the last half, stopping just in time to hear the idiotic 'scientist's explantion' as to why the rats were taking over. One final note: ever notice how all the people in these post-apocalyptic movies dress in the height of 1985 Euro-fashion? 1/10

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.

I enjoyed watching Rats: Night of Terror for several reasons, the dubbing was noticeable and some of the characters names was funny like Video and Chocolate. The plot was similar to something like Mad Max and the gang themselves reminded me of the road warriors from Mad Max 2. The Rats was obviously just Rats at parts but when they attacked them you could tell it was plastic Rats, it was also like buckets of plastic Rats was being poured on several of the actors. I'm a fan of Italian horror so this is another one I like, not has gory as some but it is fun to watch for the cheap effects and the noticeable dubbing. Check Rats: Night of Terror out if you're in the mood for some low budget fun.

This is quite literally a piece of sh*t of a movie but should you avoid it? Hell no! It's quality crap, i saw this when i was about 7-8 and it scared the hell out of me, i saw it again with a friend after he found a copy in a 2nd hand store a few weeks back and i was crying with laughter the whole way through, what was i EVER afraid of?! You have to watch this film just for the STUPID 'plot twist' at the end that sums up the whole movie as you wet yourself at whats supposed to be a terrifying conclusion. Just watch it! If you can BEAR it all the way through it's well worth it ;-) Happy watching

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.