![]() Sure I could talk to you about how Graveyard Shift can be interpreted as a sly metaphor on the deconstruction of the working class in the wake of the collapse of the US automotive industry in the 1980s, but face it: we’re all really here for Brad Dourif hunting a gigantic rat-bat monster in a cavernous textile mill. Weller begins to lose his mind, destroying his house in the process. Weller wants to get work done, but this rat won’t let him, forcing him to go to great lengths to stop him. Unfortunately, he’s repeatedly disturbed by a rat that has decided to move in. While his wife and child head out on vacation he stays home to finalize things with this client. Peter Weller stars as a young successful businessman in the process of bagging a new high-profile client. Cosmatos answered that question with Of Unknown Origin. You ever wondered what it would be like to watch RoboCop go to war with a single rat? Well, you should have stopped wondering 37 years ago when George P. It also provided us with a philosophical question I encourage everyone to pose to friends, family, and strangers on the street: would you rather fight ten rat-sized Tom Savinis or one Tom Savini-sized rat? (Anna Swanson) Needless to say, it makes one hell of a vermin adversary. Slick and snarling as if it had just been birthed from the bowels of hell, which it basically was, this mutant rodent wastes no time in its attempts to tear George Clooney’s Seth Gecko limb from limb. Part rat, part Sex Machine - words I never thought I would type in that order, but here we are - this creature is all nightmare. The horror of the film isn’t in the rats (despite it being on a list of rodent horror), or even in Willard himself, but in the tragedy of their relationship: how it speaks to a terribly relatable need for connection, codependency, and control that, in Willard’s circumstance, puts him on the slow dive to disaster. He isn’t a greasy-haired eccentric, but a dangerously lonely and frustrated person who could, conceivably, make it out of this mess in one piece. What fundamentally differentiates the two films, and what puts the 1971 original higher on this list, is that Daniel Mann’s rodent terror trip is grounded in an emotional fragility that tips it over the edge into a different tier.īruce Davison portrays Willard as a sensitive, wounded, and fundamentally empathetic young man. ![]() The plot beats between the two films are effectively the same: a meek young man named Willard can’t control his life, but he can control rats… or so he thinks. If only more re-treads were as brazenly stylish and expressionistic as the 2003 remake. ![]() (Brad Gullickson)Ĭomparing the two Willards isn’t particularly useful because they are two entirely different films. Asking these razor-jawed demons to heel is a fool’s errand. Once the rats are unleashed by Willard’s rage, there is no going back. These little furballs are his friends, and we could all use a few dozen beasties to fight our battles. When Ben, Socrates, and the other rats offer him hope and purpose, you nod your head firmly in acceptance. You’ve felt his pain before you crave the revenge he craves. He’s acting to the cheap seats, projecting his loneliness at the start of the film with the subtly of a sledgehammer. Crispin Glover strangles this performance, but it hurts so good. Well, angel form, if the collector booster boxes are anything to go by.The Willard remake is far less sensitive than the original film, but it’s also not the craptacular pretender you might expect it to be. Standing at the precipice of eternity, it seems she’s decided not to vanish into whatever lies beyond, but instead to come back to take the Phyrexians to school. Which means it seems like we’ll all get to see just how flammable Phyrexian oil is, in the end.Īnd then there’s Elspeth. Pretty much everyone that Chandra knows and cares about has been severely Phyrexian’d. Gideon and Jaya are dead, Ajani, Jace, and Nissa have all been Compleated. A lot.īut Chandra has reason to be burning with righteous rage. And then when she’s ready to move on to the next plane, set everything (well two things) on fire. Now she can not only fix for any combination of colors, she also pulls out up to five instants or sorceries for you at any given turn. March of the Machine’s Spark of Hopeįirst up we get a look at Chandra, Hope’s Beacon. Here to save everyone it’s Elspeth and Chandra. ![]() And in this case, that’s none other than the last two Planeswalkers you’d want to run into at the last possible moment. We’ve seen how some of Magic’s greatest heroes are teaming up to try and take down the invaders.īut we all know that one last spark of hope remains. While things are looking bleak out there for the multiverse as the Phyrexians breach into every plane and take over everything from the gods to the lands. Can two Planeswalkers be enough to turn the tide of battle against Phyrexia’s all consuming invasion of the multiverse? Maybe.
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