Willard

Willard
Cast: Crispin Glover
Studio: New Line
Rating: 4/10

Corporate Line: A social misfit, Willard (Crispin Glover) is constantly humiliated in front of his co-workers and squeezed out of the family business by his boss (R. Lee Ermey). But then he makes an eerie discovery: he seems to share a powerful bond with the rats that dwell in his basement. Suddenly, Willard has friends. Hundreds of them. Even the beautiful temp in the office who reaches out to Willard takes a backseat to Socrates, and Ben, and the rest of his rat legion. And when Willard’s world is turned upside-down by tragedy, those responsible must answer to his rapidly growing pack of ravenous, fearsome friends.

The Good: Crispin Glover is as creepy as any actor. You really believe this guy is as odd in real life as he is as Willard.

The Bad: Completely paint-by-the-numbers. Nothing unique. Nothing exciting. Nothing to look forward to. You know exactly who is going to be the target of Willard’s rage from the start.

The rats aren’t scary. I was about as afraid of them as I was of Gremlins. As hard as Glover tries to creep us out you aren’t really afraid of the guy. He does give you goosebumps, but if you met him in a dark alley you know you’d be the one getting out alive, rats or no rats. Horror films are supposed to send shivers, this just made me want to go out and buy a few mousetraps.

Frankly: Time and again we wonder why in the hell Hollywood releases the kind of garage that it does. Willard doesn’t deserve the big film treatment that it is getting. This film would have been nothing but a five minute short on the Twilight Zone, yet some how Hollywood felt it deserved the ‘Hollywood’ treatment. Ludicrous. And although it looks like an A flick, it’s really nothing more than a B-movie. Now I know why they call them B-movies. B equals bad.

+ charlie craine


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