Googy Meinhold | Riverton, Utah United States | 07/14/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is a movie that requires total and complete suspension of disbelief! And it's not just because of the god-awful special effects, either! The acting is completely off kilter with the story line of giant mutated creatures. Marjoe Gortner is quite possibly one of my all time favorite baaad actor of the 70's and his casual shoulder-shrugging, oh-well approach to the mutations is absolutely hysterical! No one else in the film seems to be too bothered by the giants so I guess why should he?! I loved this movie when it was first released but I was also 9 years old! If you have 90 minutes or so of your life to waste one evening, pop this sucker in the DVD player, grab some Jiffy Pop, sit back and relax. Enjoy!!!! :D"
IT IS TIME FOR GIANT RATS (TO BE ON DVD)
Wes | World Citizen, Earth | 10/30/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"It goes without saying that this classic needs to be released on dvd. Whoever owns the rights must get on it and put it out. Millions of children are missing out on seeing HUGE rats attack. FOOD OF THE GODS. ON DVD. NOW!"
Cheese never tasted this good.
Wes | 07/02/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This is a prime candidate for cheesiest movie ever made. The effects are hilariously bad and the acting is evan worse. A good movie to watch on a lazy saturday afternoon."
Mr.Big does it again
P.D Borkent | Canada | 06/01/2004
(2 out of 5 stars)
"Bert I Gordon, was known as Mr. Big for his large out of the ordinary creatures such as Giant Rats, Chickens,Wasps and Maggots. This film features these mutants.I worked on this film in 1975, in British Columbia, Canada. It was mostly filmed on Bowen Island, not far from Vancouver. As hokey as the film seemed, it was fun to work on.However it was a shame to see a star the likes of Ida Lupino with all her talents working on this film. The film did not do good at the box office, but I would bet it made money for Mr. Big. It is predectable, but somewhat entertaining, if not hilarious."
"Please God, don't let no rats eat us"
Brian C. Lawton | Brooklyn, New York United States | 03/19/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I believe this was Bert I Gordon's more gorier movies that dealt with gigantism ("Amazing colossal man","War of the colossal beast", "Earth vs. the spider") I saw this in the '70's with a double feature of "Empire of the ants" (also Mr B.I.G) Story concerns that of some goop from the bowels of the earth that
when consumed causes mammoth growth in the animal life on a farm of
Mrs. Skinner (Ida Lupino) When three football players on R & R have an accident in the form of a their friend dieing from the stings of
a giant wasp. They investigate only to find not only have wasps
been feeding on the substance but rats hundreds of rats the size
of cars. And their very hungry. Regardless of what people say about this movie there were some
pretty vicious scenes here and there. The nightmarish vision of
Mrs. Skinner's husband being pulled out of his volkswagon in the
darkness of night by ton of hungry rat heads and Mrs. Skinner's
horror of reaching into her food cubby only to pull it back out
& find her hand blood covered in mutated worms! Pure explotation
at it's best with Marjoe Gortner, Ralph Meeker & Pamela Franklin I can't imagine why MGM who's had the rights to all of Orion's
stock (who in turn had American International rights)release this
Saturday night opus, surely there must be something legal since I
just saw the release of it's poor sequel Gnaw-Food of the gods 2
in the stores. In any event this will always be cult favorite."