Last Monster/Horror/Sci-Fi Movie/Show You Watched

[Mike Scott]

Good film. Not the best from, Tim Burton

I didn't think it would be my favorite, either, so I waited to get it cheap.

[Lazarus]

Sweeney Todd is fine.  It's the best thing he's done in quite a while, barring Big Eyes, which I have yet to see.

[marsattacks666]

Rat City-aka-Subterranean Meltdown (1983)

[ChristineBCW]

Mars, was this RAT CITY part of the 'rat horrors' which seems to have started with WILLARD (1971, Bruce Davison, Sandra Locke) and then BEN (1972)? 

Was there many of these from those early '70s (which seems to be a beginning point)?  I've seen posters to 'sewer horror' types - crocodiles or alligators - and I have supposed all of these were urban-jungle type settings. 

[Count_Zirock]

"Doctor Who: Series 9, Part 2" (2015)

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[marsattacks666]

Mars, was this RAT CITY part of the 'rat horrors' which seems to have started with WILLARD (1971, Bruce Davison, Sandra Locke) and then BEN (1972)? 

Was there many of these from those early '70s (which seems to be a beginning point)?  I've seen posters to 'sewer horror' types - crocodiles or alligators - and I have supposed all of these were urban-jungle type settings.

Rat City is a VHS among other discounted VHS cassettes I purchased
about eight years ago. Suncoast Video had liquidated their VHS back-stock. I think....I may be totally wrong, Rat City has about three to four
different titles. The film begins with a Man (protagonist) shopping
at a Grocery store. Within twenty minutes in to the film, all Hell begins.

Horrible narrative, terrible acting  yet really impressive special FX.
Not- by-any-means an 80s classic. Some of the cinematography
is also impressive. Did I mention the gore? Oh my, Lanta! Gore,
gore, gore! The Director must have insisted on gore. Considering
the acting, or lack-there-of.

[Mord]

 "Hail Caesar" - Not a major Coen Bros film, but still a lot of fun. The '50s film set pieces are worth the price of admission. It has the zany, "Big Lebowski-esque" kidnap plot with a "Barton Fink" feel.

[Memphremagog]

Invasion Of the Body Snatchers(1956)
Metropolis(1927)
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave(1968)
Hangover Square(1945)

[ChristineBCW]

Sunday afternoon, we took kids and families galore to the downtown film festival to catch a double-feature of THE MUMMY'S GHOST and ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY.  The festival inserted one of their "Hollywood caricature cartoons" with a Mummy and Frankenstein stalking across the background as Bogart and Edward G's cartoons were in a nightclub.  Then an older B&W Dancing Skeletons cartoon.  Then A&C started up.  This was my first-ever viewing MUMMY'S GHOST and A&C MUMMY on the big screen, so that was a hoot. 

Not a jammed audience, but fortunately it was full enough so all the kids took up the fromt two-thirds of the theater, and everyone else headed for the back and the balcony.  There were great screams of "Don't open that!" and "Don't run THAT direction!" with appropriate squeals from the audience.  I love the big-screen experience.

[neonnoodle]

Nice!  Sound like a great Mummy night...

Just watched "The Mummy's Hand" on a wee video screen!!

[jimm]

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) Sven...



The Shining (1980)

[ChristineBCW]

Mars, thanks for that update on RAT CITY.  I suppose any critters massed and attacking can be frightening. 

I mean, I've heard anglers say that piranha taste like chicken, after all; I'm not sure what they say about us, when massed and attacking, however. 

In the excellent commentary track of THE BEGINNING OF THE END, Director Gordon's wife and daughter talk about the difficulty they had with so many grasshoppers and, in addition to their numbers, it was their species brought into Calif from Texas that was most upsetting to the Calif agricultural authorities. 

I can only imagine what WILLIARD, BEN and RAT CITY producers faced.  "Roll call!  Bed check!  Head count!"

(That's a great bit o' art for RUE MORGUE... I gotta dress that up a bit.)

[marsattacks666]

Mars, thanks for that update on RAT CITY.  I suppose any critters massed and attacking can be frightening. 

I mean, I've heard anglers say that piranha taste like chicken, after all; I'm not sure what they say about us, when massed and attacking, however. 

In the excellent commentary track of THE BEGINNING OF THE END, Director Gordon's wife and daughter talk about the difficulty they had with so many grasshoppers and, in addition to their numbers, it was their species brought into Calif from Texas that was most upsetting to the Calif agricultural authorities. 

I can only imagine what WILLIARD, BEN and RAT CITY producers faced.  "Roll call!  Bed check!  Head count!"

(That's a great bit o' art for RUE MORGUE... I gotta dress that up a bit.)

ChristineBCW. You're welcome in my response and bare-bones review of
Rat City. Btw, I never had the dining delight/experience in eating Piranha.
Sounds gross. Rat City is so bad, I actually like the film. As I mentioned previously. The special FX and cinematography are excellent. It is the horrible acting that takes-away from the film. Rat City could have been
a Cult Classic.

[ChristineBCW]

I've never with certainty had piranha; my time in Rio D had one episode but I was served filets and, well, they could have been anything - perch, who knows.  It was definitely fresh-water (stronger tasting) than a white-meated saltwater fish.

Jimm's RUE MORGUE cover let me kill a few minutes to doctor it up as if someone needed DVD cover art...


...and I keep imagining how slick it'd be to have Jack Nicholson's face-thru-chopped-open-door in one side-pane and Shelley Duvall's knife-clutching horrified face in the other, surrounding that center block. 

[ChristineBCW]

Marsy, back on Rat & Urban Legend Horrors, I wonder when the Zombie Genre will become too passé, too bloated to step forward.  This PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIE should be ringing that death knell, any moment, I'd presume but - who knows! 

When Geico decided to serialize their popular "So simple, even a caveman can do it" slogan into a full-blown TV show, that lasted - uh?  Did it even complete a season?  However, if Genres have a shelf life, Z NATION should have been rolling in the aisles, kicked around and flinally swept out.  "Clean up, Aisle Z..."

It's not happening, though.

How did rats-as-a-horror-mechanism not survive (or thrive)?  Is RAT CITY one of those bellcows (er, bell-rats?) that show "No genre can survive pitiful writing, directing, acting?" 

I still can't get a 'feel' for how long this sub-genre lasted.  Doing KEYWORD searches for "rats" and "rat attacks" doesn't yield enough films, period, to judge a time-frame of this sub-genre's popularity.  "Not much" is one conclusion, in that regard, but then again I suspect "vast numbers of actors" was a big issue: Cecile B DeMille can claim a cast of thousands, but could a director of a film about rats get away with it?!!  Ewww... 

"Sir, 800 extras broke out last night and we can't find them..." and in the background, this roaring tide of screams and yelps is rising.