Scream, Queens! The Top 40 Horror Films of The 80’s!

From:  The Backlot

 Journey with me back to the birth of the Dead Teenager movie (actually, that began in the 70′s, so I guess it would be the Afterbirth Of The Dead Teenager Movie), the last gasps of the Italian Horror Masters, and the franchises that still continue today. Yes, your Freddy, Jason, and Michael will be represented, but I’m also going to pay tribute to the obscurities that deserve to be seen. Let’s start things off with one of those obscurities, the first, but certainly not last, Killer Rodent movie on the list.

#40
Rats: Night Of Terror!

Released in 1984, Rats: Night Of terror! was directed by schlock master Bruno Mattei (who we’ll be seeing again), and takes place in 235 A.B. (the A.B. stands for … “After The Bomb”). 

Here’s the synopsis

  “One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavengers above in the wastelands. A group of scavengers on bikes come across a town infested with flesh eating rats, and soon the gore is spilling everywhere.” 

Oh, but there’s so much more to it than that. Hilarious dubbing, full frontal male nudity by a character named “Lucifer,” a girl who becomes a rat snack when her sleeping bag zipper gets stuck (which is why I don’t go camping), and the ending, which is one of the greatest in all of cinema. I’m presenting that ending below, because I feel it needs to be seen, and studied. But WARNING! This clip (which features the characters of “Chocolate” and “Video,” and I’ll leave it to you to guess who is who) will reveal the ending of Rats: Night Of Terror, so if you intend to see Rats: Night Of Terror and don’t want the ending spoiled … don’t watch.