trashgang 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

Coventry So bad it's literally BRILLIANT, this ultra-low budgeted Italian trash-production spawns one of the most unlikely and absurd monsters in the history of horror-cinema ever! Dr. Olben's creation Ratman is a genetic crossover between a rat and a monkey and somehow it's able to produce a deadly venom for which there exists no antidote. Even crazier than the creature itself is Dr. Olben's conviction that his entirely pointless genetic breakthrough will gain him a Nobel Price! Why the hell would the scientific world be interested in a rat-monkey hybrid with absolutely no positive characteristics? Moreover, the little bastard is mean-spirited as hell and continuously escapes from Olben's lab and onto a nearby village where he aggressively feasts on the bodies of gorgeous fashion models. One of the missing girls' sisters teams up with fictional novelist David Warbeck – dressed in a ridiculous Hawaian shirt – to investigate her whereabouts. They discover the abandoned laboratory where Ratman cheerfully ran some amok and return home with more than they bargained for. "Ratman" is one bizarre and provocative Italian B-movie. The plot is rubbish and the acting performances are weak, but the hideous monster is genuinely creepy and menacing. All thanks to Nelson de la Rosa, officially the smallest man on the planet, who wasn't too proud to exploit his awkward appearance for the sake of trashy cinematic entertainment. His short stature is mostly impressive, but also the rest of his make-up is rather effective, like his pointy teeth, hairy face and penetrating eyes. If only director Giuliano Carnimeo had a slightly better script to work with, "Ratman" easily could have been one of the last truly great shockers to come out of Italy. Carnimeo surely already knew how to build up tension (the music is great and the set pieces are dark & unsettling) and the murders are reasonably gory, but the dialogs are simply too inept. As to be expected, the film also features lots of redundant and totally gratuitous nudity, like the shower sequence in which Eva Grimaldi extendedly shows off her perfect measurements. You got to love how the Italians tried everything possible to please their gore & sex-addicted fans! The ending of this crazed flick is very abrupt and laughable, hinting at a sequel that – if it would have been made – would have predated the concept of the 2006 blockbuster "Snakes on a Plane" with nearly 20 years! Can you image "Ratman 2: Hybrids on a Plane"? That would have been awesome! Even though it would be a crime against all the rules of good taste to call "Ratman" a good film, it's definitely still recommended to all the avid collectors of Italian horror cinema. It's nearly unavailable on DVD and you even have to move heaven and earth to obtain a halfway decent copy on VHS or bootleg DVD-R. That alone defines a gem!

ChiefGoreMongral Ratman is one of those movies you are going to like it or hate it for me it was the first more than the last. Ratman is just that a genetically breed crossbreed between human and rat.What you get for 90 minutes is a paper thin plot about a model and photographer who are going to go into the woods for more exotic locale pics and ending up getting more than they bargain for with the title character not wanting to smile for the camera. There is a side plot that has this model's sister coming to find out if she has been killed only to find another model matching her description has been slaughtered by old RM and also the scientist who made him trying to recapture him again.From there it is a cat and "rat" game with the cast running from the RatMan and boy is it funny. This mug is about 2 feet tall at best and bites scratches and claws people to their deaths. The movie works best on a cheese level whenever the Rat Man is on the screen he brings a smile to my face as he leaps at people with his high pitch squeal and takes them out.The ending in itself was interesting but I could have been better if they would have shown what was happening as Rat Man has stowed away in typical rat fashion on an airplane. The movie ends with the screaming passengers. Man I wish they would have shown him leaping on those people and doing a number on them.In closing a guilty pleasure film if I've ever seen one, if you like midget killers and hot Italian women then you will want to check this out. Heck if you like cheesy monster action check this out also. with alittle more gore this could have been in my highly recommended rating zone but since it falls a tad short there I'm giving Rat Man: 6/10: Cult worth film and a good way to waste a Saturday Afternoon (as I did with this one).RatMan, other than a German DVD Release by X-Rated (under the title Terror House) with no English audio or subs has no official U.S. release. The best way to get this is my magic word "special order". Remember if your going to see only one mutant Rat Man movie see....well uh....there is only one!!!Until next time Ghouls! Mongral Out!

EyeAskance David Warbeck was a likable, energetic screen personality, but he deserves the John Carradine Lifetime Achievement Award for his sanguine eagerness to appear in ANY project thrown at him with a promise of fifty bucks. Case in point would be THE RATMAN, a vagrant little Eurochiller which inexpertly illustrates the bloody rampage of death and destruction brought forth by a two-foot tall poisonous were-rodent.The midget actor in the titular role is actually quite frightening looking. He's EXTREMELY small, and costumed with claws and razor-sharp incisor teeth. Regrettably, he's the only point of substantial interest this film offers(besides the presence of David Warbeck, of course). THE RATMAN is scantly agreeable fodder, and does manage to bring on the creeps once or twice...still, it's ultimately just another bump-and-grind monster mash scored with lousy synth music.4/10