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9 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
A bad movie lover's delight, 26 June 2000
Author:
Goreripper from Sydney Australia
This film exists halfway between softcore lesbian porn and gore-soaked splatter as a cheap exploitation film that tries and then fails to do both, without too much concern for acting or dialogue. Mountains of barely clad female flesh go hand in hand with ridiculous violence in this barely recognisable adaptation of an obscure Bram Stoker story about a coven of rat-worshipping female bandits. While there isn't actually any lesbianism shown on camera the implication of its existence overwhelms virtually every other aspect of `Burial of the Rats'. The story follows the adventure of young Bram Stoker and his father, attacked by the bandits during their travels abroad. The younger Stoker kills one of them and is captured; the elder one tries to convince the local constabulary to search for his missing son even after receiving such matter-of-fact advise as `Go on home, and forget all about your son!' In a matter of hours young Bram has fallen in love with one Barbie-doll proportioned Rat Woman and become sympathetic to the others' cause, even if it entails murderous raids on monasteries and brothels. Meaningless topless dancing scenes and silly violence follow, including a gratuitous torture dungeon sequence and the sight of a bucketful of rats picking a corpse clean to a bleached skeleton in a matter of seconds. That a god-fearing Victorian moralist like Stoker would have even conceived of something like this is unlikely: `Burial of the Rats' is pure William Castle camp from the prison guard who can't recognise the protagonist because he has a hat on (!!) to the ludicrous moment when the Rat Queen plucks a disobedient rodent out of the pack on the floor at her feet and cuts its head off-with a miniature guillotine! Insipid and inane but much more fun than a dozen far more well-made `serious' films, this is a bad movie lovers delight!
4 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Love the B's....., 11 September 2004
Author:
fuzbuni (fuzbuni@hotmail.com) from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bought this movie on DVD from a bargain bin and found it was well worth it. As far as eye candy goes there is a lot to see and the gore is all part of the fun. Leaves enough to the imagination. Watch this whenever I have seen something really scary in the news just to make me remember that I can still laugh. Adrienne Barbeau makes the Queen a real delight but I wish she had done a little more. Would have really loved to see a little more of the dungeon just for curiosity....Somehow I doubt that this movie will ever see Canadian TV. Take care....
3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
good movie!, 11 January 2006
Author:
skyhowl
i recently saw buriel of the rats and it was great! Yes it was low budget, and yes it featured a mostly unknown cast(with the exception of miss barbeau)but it was entertaining as hell! the story of course follows the tale of author bram stoker and his fathers run with a bunch of cult rat worshipping women..who leader was the pied pipers evil twin sister! The story line alone is worth a look! lecherous priest,scantly clad women,and a young hero looking to get laid...it doesn't get better than this. another fun masterpiece from the roger corman stable..check it out. you will not be disappointed , i wasn't..i just wish Hollywood made movies like this more often...take a lesson from the master himself rog corman!
3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Rat women attack, 2 July 2005
Author:
Dr. Gore (drgore@hotmail.com) from Los Angeles, California
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*
Bram Stoker gets kidnapped by an all-female cult. The cult of the Rat
Women. At first, they want to feed him to the rats because he's another
lousy, lying, worthless man. But Bram soon proves his worth to the rat
ladies as it becomes clear that his writing powers may be beneficial to
their cause. His graphic descriptions of their carnage will drive fear
into the hearts of men. One of the rat women, (Maria Ford), starts to
fall under his spell. Bram wants to prove his love for his princess and
hopefully get out of Rat Women land alive.
As goofy movies about rat women go, this was pretty good. I enjoyed it.
Adrienne Barbeau showed as much dignity as a woman with rats crawling
on her lap possibly could. Maria Ford was pretty good as the naive sex
kitten. She gets topless as do many other rat women. The Queen likes to
send rats to do her murderous bidding. These rats must be famished
because they strip bodies to the bone faster than a piranha. "Burial of
the Rats" has blood, guts, hungry rats and topless rat women. It's got
most everything a B-movie needs. It's worth a look.
One last thing, you might be tempted to rent this because you noticed
that Linnea Quigley and Nikki Fritz are in it. Don't be fooled. Fritz
is in it for five seconds at the most. Quigley pops up three or four
times. Both clock in at less than a minute and do absolutely nothing. I
found that slightly disappointing because I rented it with the hopes
that all of the rat women would get their chance to shine. But some rat
women were greater than others. Rats.
1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
This is a movie I would have enjoyed to act in., 14 March 2008
Author:
(theresahaffner@sbcglobal.net) from United States
Not usually my piece of cake but this dedicatedly cheesy treatment is extremely sophisticated in it's subtext. Of course you can't take the story seriously--that would be missing the point. Each step is a mindless cliché so you don't have to concentrate--the plot is wonderfully juvenile, thinly disguised soft core sadomasochistic fantasy--but wow the unreality it creates is absolutely breathtaking. The underground scenes--a utopia in reverse--dawn on you gradually. The dancing is sensual,quite beautiful, extremely well done-skillfully conceived and executed. And a whole cave society of beautiful women--each one more beautiful than the next--dressed in black leather bikini's --their waists severely cinched with black leather belts. Female dominance armed with knives and swords. By the time they attack the prison, you realize that these women don't just look nice they really know how to sword fight as well as any man. It makes me really proud of them. Expertly choreographed fight scenes. Inane special effects violence is intended to be funny instead of realistic--but watching these chicks is well worth it. I've never seen anything like it and enjoyed it very much.
2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Forget the Rats...admire the great racks the woman show., 24 August 2003
Author:
CaptainVideo from United States
A wonderful breastfest. Roger Corman knows how to make a great movie. Nicely done tit for tat with Bram Stoker and the Queen's favorite. This same stable of people made a group of these overseas for a cable network in 1995.
Interesting concept but it left me like it was lacking something., 19 May 2007
Author:
lordzedd-3 from United States
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Okay, Burial Of The Rats. The most obscure Bram Stoker book ever! I mean, I never heard of it until this movie came out. Roger Cormen is not the best Producer, writer or director. But he does give respect where respect is due. If you ever watched one of Cormen's Poe pieces, then you know what I mean and I believe that Cormen gives Stoker's Rats the same respect that he did Poe's Raven. But I'm not sure if this particular book translates well into a movie, even one made for cable. I really can't put my finger on it, but BURIAL OF THE RATS is missing something. It's not bad, but it seems to be missing something in the story. But still, the cast do a great job, the rats are cool. It's fairly descent. I give it 7 STARS.
1 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
My #1 dirty pleasure, 13 October 2002
Author:
jokercard88 from Virginia
I was flipping through channels on night at 9:00(not the best time of day for BotR but it fit in my schedual well). And I came upon this scene in a film where some hot women are torturing this Englishman. I am semi-glad that I stopped for it. The gore effects (like the hand being cut off and the rats getting fat off of what was a priest (so unholy!). Then there's the nudity, The hot black haired girl in the changing room, ect. But the plot is non-existant ofcoarse, and when the women were swordfighting, it looked like the swords weighed 100 pounds, they moan audibly loud each time they make a swing. A mixed bag with major pros and major cons. Good luck seeing it though...I saw it on sho-time oddly enough.
0 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Repressed rat women… unite!, 13 January 2007
Author:
lost-in-limbo from the Mad Hatter's tea party.
Bram Stoker and his father are travelling by horse and carriage, when
hooded robbers attack them. Mr Stoker manages to escape, but Bram is
taken hostage. They take him back to their hidden lair, where they are
revealed to be man-hating women who prefer the company of rats than
men. After surviving the tortuous ordeal because of one of his captors.
Bram is asked to write down their bold exploits, so that they would
become a feared bunch amongst men.
T & A, T & A and T & A… oh yeah, you got dirty rodents as well
(supposedly hundreds, no thousands). This cheap made for TV Corman
production is downright seedy and all about showing a stunning flock of
women in very revealing outfits. If they're not venting out their anger
towards men, they're dancing about topless for their queen's pure
entertainment. Oh joy! How true is it to Bram Stoker's short story? I
wouldn't have a clue, but I think it would be far from it. What might
have been a classy Gothic tale descends into pure b-grade schlock, but
like you would hope, it keeps it lively and fun. For this type of film
it's mostly well made and has some not so good (rats getting the
munchies and gnawing down their meals in no time) eye-boggling scenes
mixed in with bloody slaughtering, cheesy combat and titillating
bidding's. Sleaze hounds will be in heaven. Cue gratuitous soft-core
activity now. The way the kinky story is staged, it feels like a tame
porno crossed corny exploitation. Looking at the cast and Adrienne
Barbeau's name sticks out like a sore thumb. What's she doing here…
maybe needed the extra doe? But she tremendously hams it up as the
Victorian laced Queen of the vermin. Her divine presence chews up the
scenery without losing an ounce of dignity. Hows that?! Though her
fashion stylist went bananas with that ever-changing hairstyle! The
rest of the performances (made up of mostly Russians) are plain stiff,
but there are definite beauties lurking. A fairly tempting Maria Ford
is easy on the eyes and Kevin Alber steadily chips in as Bram Stoker.
Somewhere there about are Linnea Quigley and Nikki Fritz in extremely
minor appearances as rat women. The script was filled with banally
leaden dialogues and maybe concentrated on that aspect too much. A
standard production is on show, but the clammy sets are well adjusted.
Intrusive photography (peeping tom in rat vision) and an overbearing
music score lashes out. Dan Golden's direction is simply by the numbers
and the absurd screenplay is glaringly feisty and heavily plotted.
Plotted? Of course, but you know its still rubbish.
How bad? Real bad. This embarrassingly cruddy and inane trash
entertains in a ridiculously senseless sort of way. Only true
aficionados of low-grade camp should bother seeking this one out.
1 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Roger Corman again, but more importantly, naked women, 29 December 2008
Author:
patrick-green from France
I had very low expectations when I first looked at the DVD of Burial of
the Rat. My fears were confirmed when I saw the name 'Roger Corman' pop
up on the screen under the title of executive producer. Roger Corman
just knows how to make an already bad idea into an even more horrible
piece of cinematography, and Burial of the Rats was no exception. The
only asset of the film isn't that it is supposedly based on a story by
Bram Stoker, but that it includes a lot of half naked women. The film
shows its female actors with such pornographic intensity that one can
wonder if it wasn't supposed to belong to that particular genre. The
plot is irrelevant, I have already forgotten it for that matter and the
large number of scantily clad women present in the film helped. The
movie also unsurprisingly includes the stereotypical erotic blonde
beauty who is dumb as a bundle of sticks and who falls hopelessly in
love with the clueless hero who is impersonated by an actor so lame
that he could not act if his genitalia got threatened with a rusty pair
of garden shears (the women actually threaten to cut of his genitalia
if he does not behead his own father, or was it in another film? Damned
if I can bloody remember). The film does have its highlights, though,
one of them being the half naked young women that prance around for the
full length of it, but also a hilarious scene that takes place in a
brothel. This particular scene includes an ugly old tart (the owner of
the place) who loses at poker against two lecherous old men (so
caricatural that it is farcesque) and who decides to let one of them
spend a night with her (very) young daughter, which is when she says to
the man: 'do not break her though, her virginity will be auctioned off
next Tuesday'. True comedy gold I say, although other viewers might
disagree.
All in all, two stars for the abundance of scantily clad women and one
star for the hilarious virginity auction line. If you are looking for a
good film, do not choose this one, it is bad beyond belief, so
godawfully bad that your eyeballs would drop out at the sight of it.
But if you're just looking for an entertaining movie to watch when
stoned/drunk/both of the former, then Burial of the Rats is the one for
you.
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