Deadly Eyes

1983 "Tonight they will rise from the darkness beneath the city... to feed!"
4.9| 1h27m| R| en
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Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin feeding on the residents of Toronto. Paul, a college basketball coach, teams up with Kelly, a local health inspector, to uncover the source of the mysterious rat attacks and they eventually try to prevent the opening of a new subway line as well as find the mutant rats nest quickly, or there will be a huge massacre of the entire city!

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) Having a rodent problem is no walk in the park. But when they ingest something in huge amounts, that's when the nightmare begins. It all starts with a grainery storage where the corn feed is not just unsafe for sale, but it contains a steroid that it's a violation of profiting purposes. Once the rats got a hold of the grain, the feeding frenzy starts to take place. High school students are always doing stuff. Sports, homework, going out, etc. However, this will be one night, no one will ever forget. The student and toddler are the starting course of the rats' carnivorous casualties. Then the old man after his date. With all those attacks, how will it end? A brave coach and his son joins with a city official against the madness. Even Though this is an early 1980's horror movie, it was fun though. Showing snippets of one of Bruce Lee's film, it was very nice. I have seen rats the size of cats. Having a gun or a big knife or sword can nip it in the bud. This movie can also make exterminators cringe. Have your guns ready for this film, at least bugs aren't involved. 2 out of 5 stars
PeterMitchell-506-564364 We've had over sized alligators, flying piranha's, over sized killer ants, blood hungry rot weillers, and so on. Now we've got giant rats really sinking their teeth into their victims, in some quite bloody scenes, one sadly involving a toddler which I thought was a bit too much. This film basically borrows the same plot of Empire Of The Ants, as the cause to how these rats became giant frenzied killers. Hunky science teacher, Groom, the object of one student's (Langois) affections, works with and becomes romantically involved with a health inspector (Botsford) to get to the core of the rat problem. When employee Scatman Crothers tells Botsford he saw a rat about three feet big, she at first, doesn't believe him. It takes his death to instigate her into action. Groom and her share a little their own action off the playing field, in one quite erotic scene, amidst the madness of these killer vermin. Langois is a sight, though. This is how bad her crush is, she actually lets herself into Groom's bedroom, the son mentioning this to him when he comes through the house, where upstairs is a really nice surprise, waiting for him. It's hard to hold back, especially when she bends over in panties and a short shirt. But near the end, her crush subsides as she gets back with her ex, where they make a mistake of going to the movies. Rats isn't anything special. One would say it has a limited quality about it in terms of story where they should of gone more into the history of these killer rats. One feels too it may of spent a little too much time in Groom's romantic life. How's this? Like Langois catches Groom in the boys changerooms naked, Botsford catches Langois and Groom in the bedroom, but still takes Groom's son out to the zoo. Groom, an interesting actor I've found in what little he's done, provides some funny moments, one of the few assets to this well shot average horror.
stompy Yeah the movie sucks but we had a great time making it. I got thrown through a glass window, hurled down a flight of stairs, and had dog food and corn syrup plastered on my face so the dogs would "eat" me...I gotta tell ya, the dogs were treated like kings. Each dog could only work 2 hours and they could only shoot for 5 minutes at a time. They all had air conditioned kennels.The humans on the other hand... well we just had to fend for ourselves...George "Stompy" Hollo
jonathan-577 I'm fricking serious - this is a movie about mutant killer rats invading Toronto, and the rats are played by small dogs in rat costumes. The actors are incredibly boring. There's this teenage ingenue who wants to get into the pants of the gym teacher who reminds me of Stephen "Scanners" Lack (BO-RING!!!), but she mostly disappears so this guy can hang out with this middle-aged woman who obviously does not come from a theatre background. Half the time she mumbles so bad you can't understand what she's saying. Scatman Crothers does the old one-day-Carradine trick, but these idiots forget that you're supposed to space the token big-star's scenes out through the WHOLE movie - he's gone within twenty minutes. Admittedly the movie is not as boring as the performers - completely ignorant of or incompetent at the three-act paradigm, nothing new there but in this case it happily means that stuff keeps happening when you're expecting a breather. The rats do devour a baby boy in a high chair and leave a bloody trail to the basement, which would be impressive except for the fact that nobody mentions or even notices this fact for the rest of the movie! It's fun watching the Toronto locations on parade, an old man gets ratted in what we decided is probably the pre-Rubik's Cube Grange Park. Several major plot points which make no sense whatsoever only add to the fun. And like other Canadian tax-shelter movies ("Phobia", anyone?) this is a convincing case study in the utter wrongness of the auteur theory. Clouse was Bruce Lee's director for Christ's sake, you can't blame him for the Corrupt Mayor or the candlelight-and-electric-piano sex scene.