Rodentz

Starring:Allen Lee Haff, Leah Rowan, Guy Vieg, Robert Broughton, Richard Peterson, Derek Hofman, Alexandra Townsend, David Bradley
Director: Miles Feldman
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Cheezee
Best of the worst....or worst of the best bad movies....you decide..
Best movie ever
Oh my god, I loved this movie!! Very well done!
The horror...the horror

Rodentz
Starring: Allen Lee Haff , Leah Rowan , Guy Vieg , Robert Broughton , and Richard Peterson
Director: Miles Feldman
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00009YXEQ
Release Date: 2003-08-19

Product Description

Don't miss this classic creature feature with all the makings of your worst rodent nightmare. Walter and Professor Irwin believe their green miracle formula is the key to regeneration of damaged cells. But late one night, Walter starts to notice a change in some of the rats they used as their test subjects. Not only are the rats now extremely aggressive, but one has grown to 50 times its normal size, and it wants them for lunch.

Customer Reviews:

Cheezee.......2007-06-16

This ratty little fright-flick is cheesy at best. The story follows the aftermath of a lab accident, in which the furry subjects are exposed to a chemical goop that turns them into voracious, 200-lb killers who render movie producers incapable of correct spelling.

Only for the diehard "animals gone bad" film fanatics.

Best of the worst....or worst of the best bad movies....you decide.........2006-12-09

If you like REALLY bad horror movies, this is the one for you! This is serious "So bad it's good" material, on a "Worst of the worst" scale. It's monumentally horiffic in every way. It's about mutant rats and of course, they start killing everyone...Great stuff...You name it, it has it, all the elements that make a horrible horror movie: Cheesy script, bad acting, gratuitous sex scene, bad gore, fake looking rat suit, fake sounding dialogue, holes in the storyline and super corny ending. The even more hilarious thing to do is to watch it with the directors commentary on the DVD! It's priceless! Lines like, "We had to try to make the rats look scary, so we blew cold air on them to make them run." I laughed so hard...And so will you if this is your thing. If you are looking for a 'good' horror movie don't watch this and don't watch it if you want to be scared. It's too freaking funny to be scary!

Best movie ever.......2006-01-27

Everybody is right about this movie. It has terrible special effects, a guy in a giant rat suit, and mistakes in the movie that don't even begin to make sense.

So why did I rate it a five?

Come on people, the title is "Rodentz", spelled with a Z, did you expect it to be a good movie? I rented this with a bunch of friends because we wanted to watch a crappy sci-fi movie, and thats exactly what we got. This movie is halarious when you want it to be, and that is why I rated it a five. Best movie ever

Oh my god, I loved this movie!! Very well done!.......2005-04-05

So much action, great special effects! And the plotline, so intriguing!!

Um, wait, I thought I was reviewing Matrix Reloaded. Oh sorry, what's this movie?

Oh Rodentz. Well maybe I will keep the 5 stars, and say some good stuff. I thought that guy in the large rat suit was pretty good. And the erector set robotic rat at the beginning was super cool.

I didn't even mind seeing the same scene over and over, I mean if it is good-why not? We saw movie-greatness when we saw people walking through corridors one thousand times-that was very nice.

Just think of the camera work...

And the fuzzy slippers and stuffed animals that were attacking the people, those were pretty scary I thought! I don't think I'm going to open my dresser drawers for a good long time now.

I enjoyed seeing the large rat tail also, that was pure entertainment. Oh my gosh this would've been cool to see on the big screen, just think-an even bigger tail!

I liked this movie so much, I think I'm going to put in in my car, and try out my own amazing pyrotechnics, and I'll smile as my car and the DVD go up in flames. Thank god those two survived. I can't wait for Rodentz-The Rise of the Machines.

Starring Matthew Broderick as the guy in the Rat Suit.

The horror...the horror.......2004-04-20

"Rodentz," also known as "Altered Species," is one of those commodities with which lovers of bad cinema so often have a love/hate relationship. In fact, the movie could well stand as the poster child for wildly over the top, awful B-budget horror movies. The director and producers made no effort whatsoever to take any of the proceedings seriously, arguably a wise move on their part considering the atrocious levels every aspect of this film achieves. I imagine the film tried to mimic, and probably spoof in the process, every zero budget monster film made from the 1940s on, but I really, REALLY wished it hadn't failed so miserably. Why is it that every "monster" or "creatures gone mad" film released in the last few years has a low budget, bad acting, and horrible pacing? Why, when the idea of raging sharks, mad octopi, and mutated crocodiles crosses somebody's mind in Hollywood does it automatically mean a straight to video release? How many "Shark Attack" films will we have to wade through before someone gets the formula right? Well, I guess I am just as much to blame for the continued release of these terrible pictures as everyone else. After all, I rented "Rodentz" along with millions of other sheep.

"Rodentz" does have a theme: never pour experimental growth hormones in a sink. When weary graduate student Walter dumps a beaker full of the stuff down the drain, hilarity ensues in the form of giant killer rats. Walt should have known better than to do something this stupid, but he's tired after working hours and hours on Professor Irwin's controversial growth experiment. Irwin, a cantankerous old coot who spends most of his short screen time barking orders at Walt and insisting his hormone is "fine," promptly disappears after searching for his lost cat. So does an alky janitor. And so will a lot more people by the time the movie judders to an excruciating halt an eternity later. In the meantime, Walt has little idea of the carnage he has unwittingly released on the world. He continues to studiously monitor the progress of dozens of rats in cages spread across the laboratory, blithely unaware that the formula is far from "fine" and that crazed rats are doing the cha-cha on the janitor and the professor in other parts of the building. Oh sure, a few warning signs appear. One of the rats, for instance, begins to gain weight at a frightening pace after receiving an injection of the tainted hormone. Don't worry, though. Walt is only slightly concerned about this alarming development. Irwin, before his untimely passing, isn't concerned at all.

Meanwhile, a group of Walt's friends (sigh) head out for some evening fun. With nothing more than that youthful insouciance, a jug of tequila, and a gallon of hair gel, Walt's pals head over to the lab to pick up their hardworking amigo. The group consists of Walter's girlfriend, another girl who fulfills the obligatory "catty" role, and two loud mouthed jerks. Well soused by the time they arrive to get Walt, they bully their way into the lab in an effort to convince the grad student to join them. Walter, unaware that Irwin expired some time ago, tries to keep them out. But you know how it is when a script calls for mayhem; the Chinese army couldn't keep these four kids out of trouble. Predictably, oh so predictably, the carnage begins. The catty girl is the first one to run into the king daddy of the mutated rats, a creature grown to a height of roughly seven feet with teeth the size of daggers. She's one of the lucky ones, though, despite having her face completely chewed away. At least she gets the chance to bow out of this movie early on, a chance denied to Walt and his girlfriend. Panic follows, as do chase scenes and the mandatory "here's how we can save the world from the rats" idea before the movie mercifully ends. I will never, never manage to burn that cheesy image of a seven foot tall burned rat riding on top of a van. Somebody help me. Please.

It is difficult to put my finger on one specific nightmare that makes "Rodentz" such a forgettable picture, but I'll try. Let's start with the acting. It's bad, and not in a "so bad, it's good" way. I could forgive a film if the actors made me laugh with over the top performances. Instead, this film's thespians manage to irritate on a regular basis. Special mention goes to the Gary character; a guy who gets so far under your skin it would take a chainsaw to get the memory of him out. He's annoying in the extreme, and may well rank as one of the most annoying characters in the history of B moviedom. The horror of Gary nearly obscures the many other faults of the film, but not quite. Plot holes abound (How did the rats know how to chew through the phone lines? How did the power come back on?), and the editing is uniformly poor (check out those lousy reaction shots). The CGI effects look rather pathetic, too. Overall, I would say "Rodentz" is an experience akin to having a root canal without any anesthesia.

The DVD has a commentary track from the director, but I couldn't bear to listen to it. I've decided to abandon my usual "Oh the humanity" tag line for a one star movie review starting with "Rodentz." In its place, I'm going to start using "The horror...the horror" from "Apocalypse Now." I think that line, summing up all the mental trauma of senseless brutality in war on the human mind, is an adequate one to describe this and other cinematic atrocities. You'd do well to stay far away from "Rodentz."

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