
A growth hormone experiment gets out of hand, when the the resulting giant man-eating rats escape, reaking havoc on the unsuspecting campus. Much blood-letting follows.... (Full plot summary below)
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A growth hormone experiment gets out of hand, when the the resulting giant man-eating rats escape, reaking havoc on the unsuspecting campus. Much blood-letting follows.
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| User ReviewJosh KThe unspoken sexual conflict between the giant rats and the Dean is reminiscent of such timeless love affairs as Titanic's Jack and Kate Winslet, Twilight's Bella and Edward, and the Bible's own Adam and Eve. Additionally the uncertain demise of the dean is clearly a metaphor for the dangers of swimming pools. 10/10 |
| User ReviewZack Wthis movie may suck on a lot of levels but it's also kind of awesome if only for the climax where the rats invade the opening of the college's new sports complex and attack the canadian olympic synchronized swimming team during their bravura performance! needless to say, the pool is no longer an azure blue color. lol x a zillion! |
| User ReviewJustin BOh man does this movie rule! Canadian production boasts some wicked old school bladder effects and as well as rats there is a giant asshole kid! |
| User ReviewCameron LDon't take experimental growth hormones while having sex with a stranger in a lab full of giant tomato plants. |
| User ReviewJames MWhen a growth hormone experiment goes terriblely wrong with a human a professor at a local college is called into to help solve the problem but when he takes the stuff back to his lab and uses it on one of the lab rats all hell breaks loose as a bunch of rats grow to 4 times there size and start eating and killing people around campus . OK sequel to Food of Gods creepy factor goes to the rats but this movie might make you laugh cause of the plot still worth a look if your enjoyed the first one |
| User ReviewTom HGiants rats, chomping on College students. |
| User ReviewEric RThirteen years after the craptacular 1976 film adaption of H.G. Well's famous story "The Food of the Gods", filmmakers finally "bless" us with the long awaited follow-up that 1, maybe 2 people clamored for. 13 years? They might as well have remade the damn thing as opposed to making a sequel. Well come to find out "Gnaw: Food of the Gods II" basically remakes the film and has no story or character connections. As you can tell from my rating the filmmakers made this sequel/pseudo-remake no better but actually a little worse proving 13 to be an unlucky number of years to wait. The basic plot is the same as the original about a serum that as the ability to grow plants, and rodents to enormous size. "Gnaw" begins with a professor called by an old colleague to come see a boy that she grew to an enormous size (this sequence is quite laugh educing as the gigantic boy starts spouting fowl language). Apparently she tested an experimental growth hormone on the boy and now it's up to our professor to find an antidote. At first he tests it on tomato plants and his test specimen rats just happen to get a bite and grow to enormous size. Thanks to a dumbass group of animal rights activists, they accidentally release, as in the words Westley from "The Princess Bride", the ROUSs (Rodents of Unusual Size) and they decide to make masticate, or "gnaw" all the students on campus. Unlike the original film which took itself stupidly serious, the filmmakers here go more for a slight tongue-in-cheek approach. They took the concept of giant rats that eat people and ran with it. Sadly director Damian Lee doesn't push the tongue-in-cheekiness far enough and it just comes out bad. This cheap Canadian quickie bares its budget constraints when it comes to the quality of film-making. Director Damien Lee gives the film no style, rendering it look like late 80's direct-to-video far. The boom mike even pokes it's head into the frame in a few sequences....that's just plain laziness! The special effects are also not that great, utilizing the same special effects techniques with miniatures, giant rat heads and forced perspective that the original film did 13 years before. One would think effects would have made a bigger jump in 13 years. I can't bitch too much about the effects as I will take these effects any day over the lame shitty CGI that infects most nature-run-amok films now-a-days. Speaking of shitty CGI flicks, the Artisan Region 1 DVD cover to this rat turd is awful! It makes it look like a made for Sci Fi (excuses me... SyFy) Channel original. The only thing I can really praise this film for is it does load on the blood. The original ad some violent scenes but it mostly played it safe in the gore department. Not here as Damien Lee loads the film up with violent rat attacks and blood. A shocking sequence comes towards the end when the rats attack a synchronized swimming team (yes, you did read that right) and there is a shot underwater showing an arm and head sinking. Holy hell! The awful film is only for fans of lame monster and nature-run-amok films. It does hold a special place in these fans' hearts as it really is one of the last films of its kind before the shitty CGI craze took over. You get all your blood and gore, CGI free! |