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Pet Forum / Mammals / Rats / November 2003Rat Movies
Greetings, I have found an old movie at our local public library called "Ben". It stars a trained rat. Are there any other rat related movies? I have seen NIMH, etc. How about some old time radio horror shows. -David there is the old movie Willard that Ben is a sequal to. and then there is the new version of Willard that just came out on video earlier this month. then there is a movie called Rats that i have on dvd, it sucks but its about killer rats. > Greetings, > I have found an old movie at our local public library called "Ben". > It stars a trained rat. Are there any other rat related movies? I > have seen NIMH, etc. How about some old time radio horror shows. > > -David Is that the one where the rats in New York are terrorizing people? I saw a movie around Halloween time and in one scene, the rats come out of some kind of pipes and a swimming pool gets full of them and they are trying to chase the little kids in the pool. That was a crazy movie. I think it was called "The Rats". Erika  SignatureLord help me to be the person my rats think I am. <:3_)~ > there is the old movie Willard that Ben is a sequal to. and then there is > the new version of Willard that just came out on video earlier this month. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > > > -David I havent seen Ben yet, but the song at the end of the new Willard is pretty good and on par with rats. I didn't know there was and older Willard, thanks!--I'll have to buy both old Willard and Ben now. The newer Willard is pretty good with the affects and introverted angst storyline, but--his 'Socrates' rat sure seems to make a lot of squeaking that I've never heard of. Not even close to chattering. More of a pained squeak. But, to tell the truth, had I never been owned by a rat, I prolly wouldn't know the difference. --Belt > Is that the one where the rats in New York are terrorizing people? I saw a > movie around Halloween time and in one scene, the rats come out of some kind [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > > > > > -David >Greetings, >I have found an old movie at our local public library called "Ben". >It stars a trained rat. Are there any other rat related movies? I >have seen NIMH, etc. How about some old time radio horror shows. > >-David See "Rats in the Media" for rats (and mice) in films and on TV: http://www.petrat.ca/media.html#media SignatureMariette > Greetings, > I have found an old movie at our local public library called "Ben". > It stars a trained rat. Are there any other rat related movies? I > have seen NIMH, etc. How about some old time radio horror shows. > > -David There's a movie called 'Rat' set in Ireland starring Pete Postlethwaite as a man who turns into a rat. It's not the best movie, but there's a few funny scenes like when the rat is enjoying a pint of guinness at the local pub. Take a look at this link for more info http://www.rat-themovie.com/ Does anybody know whether the new Willard movie ever came to UK as I'd like to see that. I've never seen it advertised at cinemas and have never seen it in the video shop. Tracey > > Greetings, > > I have found an old movie at our local public library called "Ben". [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Tracey Hi Tracey, I've seen that movie "Rat"... I loved it...it was funny but didn't like the rat being flung over the fence...lol I so loved the new Willard. I also watched the commentaries and deleted scenes...if the director could have followed his true vision for this movie and not fall victim to what the big wigs want, this movie would have been my all time favorite. But of course we can't have a movie that shows great intelligence from a rat or letting a rat win in the end...don't be foolish, that wouldn't sell box office tickets, not like they did any better anyway. SignatureJoanne Mom to 14 rats http://community.webshots.com/user/joanneb70 j-s.b@nospamsympatico.ca remove "no spam" > > Greetings, > > I have found an old movie at our local public library called "Ben". > > It stars a trained rat. Are there any other rat related movies? I > > have seen NIMH, etc. How about some old time radio horror shows. "BEN" was the sequel to "WILLARD," which was recently remade, both versions are fun to see. The remake is supposed to be about the son of the original Willard; the original actor is the model for the film's painted portrait of the new Willard's father. All three of these are rather good horror films really; most horror films about rats are not merely insulting to rats but insulting to filmmaking. One of the worst rat movies of all time RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR is a foreign low-budget loser about bikers who arrive in a rat-infested post-holocaust town, & rats keep falling on them & the biker's die horrible bad-acting deaths. It's just so amazingly stupid. Another stinky but not bad intended film is RAT BOY about a half-rat half-human found in a garbage dump who gets exploited. The movie was dumb enough, but the make-up for rat-boy's face was so badly done it's just impossible to take him seriously as a character. There's a feature length cartoon about BASIL OF BAKERSTREET, the detective mouse that lives in the wall of Holmes' apartment, solving a criminal conspiracy of the rats & of a big fat kitty which is the chief rat-villain's pet. It's no SECRETS OF NIMH but it's amusing. Sub-average cheezy horror film FOOD OF THE GODS (I & II) pretending to be based on H. G. Wells' story features giant monster rats terrible special effects. Other third-rate horror films about how scary rats include DEADLY EYES, GRAVEYARD SHIFT, and HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE. Several films are titled RATS, most of them not actually about rats, but one in 1982 turned out to be the same film as DEADLY EYES, which is pretty "ordinary" horror fare but enjoyable if you like ordinary horror fare; & a brand new 2003 video release also called RATS is set in an insane asylum with flesh-eating rats running amuck, very stupid with laughable special effects. Another recent horror film THE RATS was a cable move but now on video, about rats that got into some bad chemicals & became super-rats taking over a department store & threatening to spread from there to the rest of New York city, it is very much like MIMIC but with rats instead of bugs. I've never yet seen THE RATS ARE COMING! THE WEREWOLVES ARE HERE! but is reportedly nowhere near as witty as the title. A good one is OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN starring Peter Weller as a man outwitted by a very big very clever rat, a sinister & funny horror film that should be more famous than it is. It was remade as the totally comic MOUSETRAP with a little mouse instead of a big rat, but OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN is by far the better film without a tenth of the budget. I wish I could remember the name of the short cartoon about a man who moved into a house that had a huge female rat living in it. It is a wonderful cartoon, I think from Canada. The guy tries everything to kill the rat, but she perceives the bear-trap as a necklace present & wears it safely, she accepts the poison bits as candy bonbons & they don't hurt her, she becomes convinced the man is madly in love with her, & she's been so very lonely & begins to try to seduce him. The man is lonely too so they end up making love & living happily ever after. It's the finniest damn rat film ever made, but I saw it as a "filler" piece at a film festival & never heard anything of it since. -paghat the ratgirl loves movies > > -David > > There's a movie called 'Rat' set in Ireland starring Pete Postlethwaite as a > man who turns into a rat. It's not the best movie, but there's a few funny > scenes like when the rat is enjoying a pint of guinness at the local pub. > Take a look at this link for more info http://www.rat-themovie.com/ I enjoyed that film. It was a silly idea & they did not overcome the silliness of it, but I got a kick out of it even so. > Does anybody know whether the new Willard movie ever came to UK as I'd like > to see that. I've never seen it advertised at cinemas and have never seen > it in the video shop. > > Tracey Signature"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ > > > Greetings, > > > I have found an old movie at our local public library called "Ben". [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] > : http://www.paghat.com/ Have you seen a cute little movie called "I was a rat". A rat turns into a little boy. He used to belong to the princess. It's English with Tom Conti as the man along with his wife "cares" for the boy/rat. SignatureJoanne Mom to 14 rats http://community.webshots.com/user/joanneb70 j-s.b@nospamsympatico.ca remove "no spam" [clips[ > > "BEN" was the sequel to "WILLARD," which was recently remade, both > > versions are fun to see. The remake is supposed to be about the son of the [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > little boy. He used to belong to the princess. It's English with Tom Conti > as the man along with his wife "cares" for the boy/rat. I never heard of that one & just checked to see if I could get it from NetFlix, but they don't have it. NetFlix does have OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN however. NetFlix also has a DVD of the telefilm RATZ which is on the top of my list with them, probably will have it next week. It sounds like it'll be silly but Iwatch everything about rats even if its juvenile: teenage girls change their pet rats into hunky boyfriends & have adventures. An early Disney short silent film ALICE RATTLED BY RATS is about a drunken cat & rebellious dancing ratties. There are many versions of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS but one with live-action instead of animation stars Eric Idle as the river rat. It wasn't brilliant, but it was very enjoyable. There are many versions both live-action & animated of THE PIED PIPER, one memorable one I saw at a film festival was checklosovakian, animated carved walnut figures, very beautiful & strange. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were taught martial arts by a wise old rat. Of kiddy movies A RAT'S TALE (1997/8, aka The Story of Monty) from Germany is a rather awesome fairy tale. It is about a rats & their good-buddy alligator trying to survive a developer's attempt to exterminate them. Rats are heroic, humans are bad. It's played by marionettes & live actors together; extremely charming though aimed young, based on a children's book. The 1995 telefilm BURIAL OF THE RATS is about a cult of sexy amazons with an army of flesh-eating rats, intentionally goofy & a bit of fun, I think it was originally made-for-cable. RODENTZ (aka ALTERED SPECIES) is a very bad film about giant mutant rats. Of SOMEwhat related interest, there's also one about giant rabbits, NIGHT OF THE LEPUS; I saw it so long ago I barely remember it, but stuff happens like the rabbits waylaying trucks to get shipments of canned carrots, but it's not supposed to be funny -- there are big build-ups for the monsters & when they appear, they're just big cud-chewing bunnies. A film I've never been able to find a copy of is RAT MAN about a half-rat half-monkey, played by a small person in what sounds like perhaps the most humiliating little-person role of all time. It was made in France. Minor rats: the two Eddy Murphy versions of DR DOOLITTLE have alley-rats but not nearly as well treated as in the Doolittle books, one volume is primarily about the rats & much more favorable than the films. CREEPAZOIDS is a post-holocaust film with a rat antagonist. In DAYLIGHT rats show Sylvester Stallone the way out of the tunnels. There are rats throughout Francis Ford Copolla's DRACULA & at one point Dracula even turns into a pile of cgi rats. In FROM DUSK TO DAWN a vampire turns into a big rat in one brief scene. (Rats in vampire films would be a big list but they're so far never the stars.) Signature"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ We used to have a programme here in UK called 'Tales from the Riverbank.' It was a children's tv programme made in the seventies (I think). It had real animals in it such as hamsters, rabbits and rats and they all went on a different adventure each week. I actually saw a video with three episodes of the series on it for sale at a cheap book shop round here last year and bought it for my fiance's daughter as she was here visiting at the time. She thought it was marvellous as she loves rodents and loves nothing more than cuddling with my ratties. She actually asked her mum for a pet rat after her hamster died but her mum hates them and refused. She told her she can have any pet she likes but not rats. Typical! Tracey > We used to have a programme here in UK called 'Tales from the Riverbank.' > It was a children's tv programme made in the seventies (I think). It had [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Tracey This Canadian show has existed since 1959. It's still on, presently called "Once Upon A Hamster." Hammy's best friend is Martha Mouse, who in the past has always been played by a white rat, but is presently played by a fawn hooded rat. I got rid of cable as a time-waster & get NetFlix movies instead, so can't watch it Hammy & Martha anymore. Locally it was aired at three in the morning, a very stupid time-spot for a show aimed at pre-schoolers, but I suppose it's lucky Canadian children's television is carried is carried down here at all. The show has a website: http://www.hammyhamster.com/ -paghat Signature"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ > This Canadian show has existed since 1959. It's still on, presently called > "Once Upon A Hamster." Hammy's best friend is Martha Mouse, who in the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > -paghat Oh my god... you just brought back a flood of memories. I used to watch this show all the time when I was young... SignatureJoanne Mom to 14 rats http://community.webshots.com/user/joanneb70 j-s.b@nospamsympatico.ca remove "no spam" Yikes, do you remember it, too, Joanne? Mr. Hammy Hamster and that guinea pig, whatever his name was, who sounded like W.C. Fields! Ahhh.... fine days those were! Y. -- Lucat bene si ergo Fortibus es inaero O nobil demis trux Sum es causen summit dux -- Anon > > This Canadian show has existed since 1959. It's still on, presently called > > "Once Upon A Hamster." Hammy's best friend is Martha Mouse, who in the [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > j-s.b@nospamsympatico.ca > remove "no spam" > Yikes, do you remember it, too, Joanne? Mr. Hammy Hamster and that guinea > pig, whatever his name was, His name was (err, is) simply GP (GeePee). > who sounded like W.C. Fields! Ahhh.... fine > days those were! > > Y. Signature"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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