It gives them a sense of scale that just can’t be attained with camera trickery, and to makes them even more endearing, animatronic puppetry is used for close-ups, Muppet rodent heads sloppily bobbing in blood as they gnaw at their victims. Let’s start with those darn rats, shall we? It makes my heart grow at least two sizes larger to see director Robert Clouse ( Enter the Dragon) use actual dachshunds in rat costumes, because: a) it’s inventive, and b) it mostly works. Once you separate this chaff from the wheat however, you’re left with a first rate When Animals Attack cum Giant Monster flick. This little love triangle plays out ridiculously later on, and just as ridiculous is the love scene between Kelly and Paul, complete with roaring fireplace and shadowed areolae (incidentally, the name of my straight edge band). The End.Įxcept not really, because I’ve left out that middle section with the love story between Kelly and high school teacher Paul Harris (Sam Groom – Deadly Games), a single dad and the object of affection for student Trudy (Lisa Langois – Happy Birthday to Me).
#PIECES 1982 DEATH SCENES MOVIE#
Once taken away to be destroyed, the film is off and running rats eat the feed and grow to the size of dachshunds, which they’re played by (excuse me?), a baby is munched (sorry, say what now?), we get a bowling alley massacre (haha really?) followed by a movie theatre invasion (STAWP IT) and culminating in a subway melee between the giant rodents and our heroes (HOT DAMN!). Our film opens with health inspector Kelly Leonard (Sara Botsford – Murder by Phone) and her field agent George Foskins (Scatman Crothers – The Shining) checking out a chemically contaminated shipment of grain. But Deadly Eyes is way more fun than I remembered, even if it could use some serious weight loss around a paunchy midsection. Released in October by Golden Harvest (the Honk Kong based studio with nearly 300 production credits) in Canada and stateside by Warner Brothers the following April, Deadly Eyes (aka Night Eyes) laid droppings all over the place according to critics and audiences alike, and was quickly relegated to clamshell heaven. (Sorry Joe Bob Briggs, I couldn’t resist.) Today we’re scurrying back to my particular turf for Deadly Eyes (1982), Golden Harvest’s Canadian-lensed attempt to move over from Kung Fu to Rodent Fu.
It’s not a sub-genre that sparked off franchises (does Willard and its sequel Ben count? Let me know) or inspired Funko toys, but rather has films strewn here and there throughout horror history. Until you start watching killer rat movies, you don’t realize how few killer rat movies there are.
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