Rats: Night of Terror

Original title: Rats - Notte di terrore

1984
Unrated
1h 37m

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In a post-apocalyptic earth, where most of humanity lives underground, a group of surface people stumble upon an abandoned lab that was trying to bring life back to the earth's surface, but ... Read allIn a post-apocalyptic earth, where most of humanity lives underground, a group of surface people stumble upon an abandoned lab that was trying to bring life back to the earth's surface, but the place is run over by vicious rats.In a post-apocalyptic earth, where most of humanity lives underground, a group of surface people stumble upon an abandoned lab that was trying to bring life back to the earth's surface, but the place is run over by vicious rats.

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Kurt
(as Richard Raymond)

Geretta Geretta

Chocolate
(as Janna Ryann)

Massimo Vanni

Taurus
(as Alex McBride)

Gianni Franco

Video
(as Richard Cross)

Ann-Gisel Glass

Myrna

Jean-Christophe Brétignière

Lucifer
(as Cristoph Bretner)

Fausto Lombardi

Deus
(as Tony Lombardo)

Henry Luciani

Duke

Cindy Leadbetter

Diana

Christian Fremont

Noah
(as Chris Fremont)

Moune Duvivier

Lilith

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Trivia
The abandoned city sets featured heavily in the film were the New York City exteriors built at Cinecitta for Once Upon a Time in America (1984) which by this point had fallen under disrepair.

Goofs
In the first attack of a rat upon a human, the rat bites the character Duke's hand and then leaps to his neck and face seemingly and bites there. Later on, however, there is no evidence either on his neck or face when he was clearly bitten on one area or the other or both.

Quotes
Video: [trying to fix a broken computer] This stupid machine needs a kick in the balls!

Crazy credits
The movie abruptly ends with 'FIN', and follows with a minute of music without any credits playing.

Alternate versions
The film ran into censorship problems in Ontario, Canada. The CIC Video version that was eventually passed is missing the shot of a rat emerging from the dead girl's mouth.

Connections
Featured in Hell Rats of the Living Dead (2002)

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"Computers And Corpses Are A Bad Mixture!"...

It's 225 years past the nuclear holocaust. We are introduced to a band of post-apocalyptic bikers who are amazingly clean, especially their hair, which holds its body even on a long-dead planet. Their clothes are equally well preserved, and pressed. Even their spiked armbands are brand new! Perhaps this is due to the radioactive fallout.

Happening upon a ghost town, our anti-heroes search for supplies, soon realizing that the only living things left other than themselves are rats. Lots of rats. These are no ordinary rodents, since they devour human flesh. Even after several half-eaten corpses are found, the well-groomed bikers refuse to leave town.

When night falls, the real hoopla begins, and there are more rats running around than at Willard's birthday party! The bikers remain oblivious. Nudity ensues. Will any of these imbeciles survive?

RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR is one of those hilarious Italian horror films from the 1980's- the scene in which a rat puppet emerges from a biker's mouth is a particularly enjoyable moment of merriment! It contains the requisite gore, female nekkidness, big-big hair, and unnecessary animal cruelty.

As rubbish cinema goes, this is Grade-A vermin droppings. It's a howl to watch, in spite of the numerous stretches of mind-destroying dullness.

In the end, it's just a good thing that rats love cheeeze...