This flick do has his pros and contras, to be honest I can understand it completely. Just face the reviews, only a few for a cult classic. That must say enough. The problem this flick had was the fact that it was being cut heavily even so that nudity and gore was left out. It did had a few releases and was even sold with the title Terror House.

I still don't know what to think about it because to be fair it is a bit boring at some places. Comes because there's no suspense in it. But I have seen it full uncut. It took until 2008 before it was finally released full uncut and sadly Nelson De La Rosa (the ratman) never experienced the final release, he passed away in 2006.

Maybe people hate it because the effects weren't the next big thing and there is not really that much of gore to spot. For me it's even goreless, it's more a trashy flick. It's just made for the geeks of bad taste. And it surely won't win an Oscar for acting but there's more than the flick itself. David Warbeck (Fred Williams) famous of a lot of classics (The Beyond (1981)) has the main lead here to help a model's sister to search for her sister. Girls do disappear due the ratman of course. Most notable and been cut out of a lot of DVD's is the ratman as a peeping tom watching Marilyn (Eva Grimaldi) taking a shower. It's as gratuitous as it can get and she goes all the way. people who know Eva know that you will see an extreme beautiful body. And that's what's it all about for a lot of pervs out there, to see the shower scene.

A bit of blood here and there, trashy in some way and a lot of Eva walking around and modelling never wearing a bra throughout The Ratman.

Gore 1/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 1,5/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

Of course I hadn't heard about this 1988 Italian movie titled "Quella Villa In Fondo Al Parco" (aka "Rat Man") prior to stumbling upon it by random chance here in 2024. When I sat down to watch it, I have to admit that I was harboring absolutely zero expectations to director Giuliano Carnimeo's 1988 movie.

The storyline in the movie was bland, so very, very bland. I am amazed that writers Dardano Sacchetti and Elisa Briganti could collectively manage to put together something that devoid of contents. The narrative was just prancing ahead at a monotonous pace without offering much of anything interesting to the audience.

In fact, most of the movie you only get to see the "rat man" from it's point of view. And that just didn't cut it for me, that was just not quality entertainment. Sure, it might have worked back in the late 1980s, but with the amount of horror movie's I've sat through over the last 40 years, then it just didn't do it for me.

Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the actors or actresses on the cast list, as the Italian cinema is not my go-to-cinema for entertainment. And I have to say that actor Nelson de la Rosa (playing Mousey) was given a rather derogatory character and role to play, wasn't he? Sure, it could fly back then, but not so much in today's society.

Visually then the movie was not good. It looked like something that crawled out of the 1970s, to be honest.

While I managed to sit through the movie in its entire bland 88 minute runtime, I can't claim to be particularly impressed or entertained by what director Giuliano Carnimeo delivered. And this is by no means a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time, nor is it a movie that I would recommend for horror fans to rush out and get to watch.

My rating of director Giuliano Carnimeo's 1988 movie "Quella Villa In Fondo Al Parco" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

I though that Ratman was quite a good film to watch. It is about a maniac who butchers a fashion model on a Caribbean island and leaves the body to be eaten by rats. The model's sister suspects something isn't quite right with the police investigation and decides to go to find out by herself. With her friend, Fred, their investigation's lead them to an unknown part of the island where they discover a rat like man. The creature is killed by Fred, but the true horror of the rats nature is just about to start. This ended up being a good film to watch. There is quite a lot of strong gory violence and nudity in the film for viewers which may be a bit to much for some people.