Meanwhile, the more distasteful working practices of Warwick are slowly brought into the light as it’s revealed that he not only deliberately cuts costs and pollutes the area, but he gives female workers promotions to get them out of the grimey work floor in exchange for sex as he plays small time god within his small, decaying kingdom.
Into the void created by the mulched employee enters recently widowed drifter John Hall, who stirs up a friendship with female worker Jane Wisconsky while simultaneously invoking the ire of his bullying workmates as he sets to work grinding his way through the graveyard shift. You see, despite the hellish working conditions (the cotton picker can only be worked during the night due to the intense heat) and the sadistic, bullying foreman Warwick, it seems that within the walls are an endless supply of rats who seem to be getting more brazen everyday – but rumours start to swell when a worker falls into the picker under suspicious circumstances and Warwick seems utterly uninterested in getting matters sorted out. You could accurately describe the Bachman textile mill in Maine as something of a rat-pit, but that would be still selling the facility far short.
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Still, maybe it was for the best, for as anyone who knows pulpy, 70’s horror literature would know, even though it was published four years later, James Herbert’s 1974 novel, The Rats is the far better known rodent story despite containing many similarities that’s a little too close for comfort.Īnyway, there’s actually a very real sense of a missed opportunity here – which is odd for a movie about legions of hungry, man-eating pests – as the movie wastes a good cast, great sets and a nifty monster in order to punch below it’s weight and dumb down a movie that could have had loftier ambitions. A good example of this is the virtually forgotten 1990 killer rat movie, Graveyard Shift that came out amidst a slew of King adaptations and promptly sank without a trace.
Possibly one of the most frustrating things about a duff Stephen King adaptation is the choice of certain filmmakers to allow the deeper meanings of the story slip through their fingers as nimbly as a greased rodent while they fully embrace the more audience friendly horrors that lurk on the surface.
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