Oh, Rats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's "Willard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                       As far as I am concerned, the 1971 thriller with Bruce Davison, is the one and only.  And what delights it offers!  Ernest Borgnine as the bullying boss who gets what is coming to him--every disgruntled employee's fantasy!  An extremely sympathetic performance by Davison as a tragically introverted, mother dominated young man, just one step short of Norman Bates, who gets pushed in that direction, when he connects with, of all things, a horde of rats.

                                        And speaking of mothers, there is a great, campy performance by Elsa Lanchester as Mrs. Stiles.  I don't know if this was her last movie, but she gives it her all, injecting pathos into the campiness, proving her skill as an actress.

                                          The rats in this film are all real; Davison and Borgnine had to work with them, and I read somewhere Davison was bitten at least once.  But because they are real, they are more believable than the cyber manufactured ones in the 2003 remake with Crispin Glover.  We don't even talk about THAT one, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                            So, join us tonight at 8PM as "Svengoolie" presents the original "Willard."  It is worth another look if you have already seen it.  But for first time viewers, it is a MUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                             "Squeak, squeak!" darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!