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Food of the Gods II
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.
Release : | 1989 |
Rating : | 4 |
Studio : | New Line Cinema, Carolco Pictures, Rose & Ruby Productions, |
Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Paul Coufos Lisa Schrage Réal Andrews Stuart Hughes Karen Hines |
Genre : | Horror Science Fiction |
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While trying to find a way to reverse rapid hormonal growth, university professor Dr. Neil Hamilton (Paul Coufos) accidentally creates a pack of giant man-eating rodents that escape into the sewers under the campus, emerging to attack students and staff.As unbelievable as it might seem, someone (well, director Damian Lee, to be more precise) actually went and made a sequel to Bert I. Gordon's cruddy '70s eco-horror Food of the Gods; almost as hard to believe is that FOTG2 proves far more enjoyable than the dismal original. Lee is far from a great film-maker, as anyone who has seen Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1990) can testify, but he loads his film with enough demented lunacy—including some welcome OTT gore and a little female nudity—to ensure that it easily surpasses Gordon's film in terms of sheer entertainment value.Admittedly, it takes a while for Lee to get into the swing of things, but once he does, he lets loose with a series of wonderfully daft scenes: we get a cheesy science montage with a naff synth rock soundtrack; there's a ridiculous dream sequence in which hero Dr. Hamilton injects himself with an experimental hormone, and then grows while having sex with student Mary Anne (actress Kimberly Dickson kindly ticking the nudity box); a rat exterminator with a flamethrower does an impersonation of Clint Eastwood; a guy gets his ass mauled by a rat while taking a leak; the rodents chase a maintenance man on an electric cart through tunnels at high speed; an unscrupulous scientist is infected with dog cancer and melts; and in the magnificent finale, the rats attack a synchronised swimming contest before being massacred by machine gun.As if that wasn't enough for fans of B-movie silliness, there's also fun to be had from numerous cameos by the boom mic and a special FX guy, armed with a pair of syringes loaded with goop, who surreptitiously sneaks into shot during the melting scene.
What is 'Gnaw Food of the Gods' about? Well it starts out very exciting with grandmotherly scientist introducing our hero Dr. Hamilton to a ten foot boy screaming out them to, "Get the fxxx out of my room!" Wow! What a great scene! A super growth hormone has turned an innocent child into a monster and now a cure must be found. This movie really had me hooked. However, besides two other short scenes that's the LAST WE'LL SEE OF THAT STORYLINE!!! Instead the movie quickly degenerates into a cheap giant killer rat movie. Not that we ever see the giant rats. No, instead we just get POV shots of people screaming. I'm reminded of 'Grizzly II The Concert.' The first rule of a monster movie is to have a monster! If you're still having any thoughts of wasting your time on this snore fest I'll summarize the plot so you can see how horrible it is.So Dr. Hamilton brings the growth hormone back to his cheap lab at a community college to find a cure.Dr. Hamilton also just happens to be giving extra credit lessons to one of his students who's joined an animal rights group protesting the community college's animal experiments on... rats. Yes just rats. I had no idea there was a save the lap rats movement.PETR People For the Ethical Treatment of Rats breaks into Dr. Hamilton's lab and frees his lab rats whom predictably get into the super growth hormone.Giant killer rats on the loose at a community college. Oh the horror. The police are always on scene but they don't actually do anything until the end! This is why giant killer rats aren't as scary as an actual swarm of rats. They're big, they're easier to kill! Just shoot them! No, the rats don't start breeding rapidly like real life rats. There are only a dozen of them. Shoot them! They're hard to miss.Of course they're would be other easy ways to kill giant rats like... rat poison. Just use a large dose.In the climax the rats attack the school's synchronized swimming event. The police arrive and... shoot them. Yes that's how you kill animals. Just shoot them. They could have done this days ago! Dr. Hamilton protests this, pleading for the life of his beloved pet rat. When your pet is as big as a wolf it's time to put it down. If they're expecting anyone to feel emotions for the death of rat it won't work.So what becomes of that poor little boy? The movie doesn't care. It's too focused on rats... oh wait there are no rats just POV shots! Skip this whole mess of a movie. Even if you like giant killer rats you'll hate this movie because it doesn't even have giant killer rats just POV shots!
Who could possibly have wished for a sequel to Bert I. Gordon's legendary bad trash-film "Food of the Gods"? Nobody, of course, but director Damien Lee thought it was a good idea, anyway, and he put together a belated sequel that stands as one of the most redundant movies in horror history. "Gnaw" is a sequel in name only, as the setting moved to a typical late 80's location (a university campus) and also the cheap & cheesy gore effects perfectly illustrates the 80's. This script hangs together by clichés, awfully written dialogs and plot situations that are not so subtly stolen from other (and more successful) horror classics. Neil Hamilton is a goody two shoes scientist who performs growing-experiments on ordinary rodents in order to do a fellow scientist a favor. Due to some incredibly stupid animal rights activists, the huge and ravenous rats escape and devour pretty much everyone on campus. Following the good old tradition that Spielberg's "Jaws" started, there's an obnoxious Dean who refuses to admit the problem even though severely mutilated corpses are turning up everywhere. During a hysterically grotesque climax, the rats invade the opening ceremony of the campus' new sport complex! "Gnaw: Food of the Gods 2" is terribly bad and therefore a lot of fun to watch! The characters do and say unimaginably stupid stuff (like descending into the sewers unarmed while they KNOW it's infested with rats), the acting is atrocious and there's a genuinely bizarre sequence involving the hero having sex under the influence of growth-serum! I wonder what Freud's theory would be on that! There's a satisfying amount of gore and sleaze and it has to be said the music is surprisingly atmospheric. In case you just can't get enough of this junk, there are quite a lot of creature-features revolving on mutated rats, like the Italian schlock film "Rats: Night of Terror", the modest 70's cult film "Willard" and its lame sequel "Ben", the 2003 "Willard" remake starring Crispin Glover and the surprisingly good recent rat-movies by once-famous directors Tibor Ticaks ("Rats") and John Lafia ("The Rats"). Go nuts!
At a small American University, Professor Edmund Delhurst and his assistant Brett (Robert Kennedy) are performing experiments on rats to try and create a cure for both cancer and as a sort of hobby baldness. Animal rights activists Mark (Real Andrews), Alex (Lisa Schrage), Al (Stuart Hughes) and Angie (Karen Hines) break into Delhurst's lab and destroy his equipment and notes. Meanwhile fellow research scientist Neil Hamilton (Paul Coufos), who conducts his experiments on fruit and vegetables, is asked for help by one of his old teachers, Dr. Kate Treger (Jackie Burroughs). Kate has been trying to halt the growth pattern of a young boy named Bobby (Sean Mitchell) with a drug named 1-92. However, instead of reducing his height and growth the drug in fact actually increases it. She asks Hamilton for help, he agrees but tells Dr. Treger he needs samples to work with. So everything he asks for is sent over to his lab back on campus. Hamilton experiments long into the night and creates a serum that accelerates growth in tomato's, now he figures all he has to do is create an antidote. Hamilton's assistant Joshua (Frank Pellegrino) convinces him he must test any serum he develops on rats first, claiming that he's potentially gambling with Bobby's life, he agrees and some rats are taken from the biology department. Before he knows whats happening his girlfriend and animal rights activist Alex turns up at his lab, not wanting to get into an argument over the rats with Alex, Neil and Joshua hide the rats behind the giant tomato plant. The inevitable happens and the rats start to eat the giant tomato's through the bars on their cage. Later that night animal rights activists Mark, Al and Angie break into Hamilton's lab and in an accident all the infected rats escape. Before long there are loads of giant mutant rats running around the campus and feeding on the staff and students. Hamilton wants Dean White (David B.Nichols) to evacuate but is told that he doesn't want a scandal, and cannot cancel a party for the opening of a new Olympic standard swimming pool, which a lot of rich and influential people will be attending. Lieutenant Wetzel (Micheal Copeman) claims since it's private property that his hands are tied. As the bodies mount up Hamilton must find a way to locate and destroy the killer rats and save Bobby before it's too late. Directed by Damien Lee I liked this, even though the way it's filmed is very flat, the production design and photography screams made for T.V. It certainly kept me entertained me for an hour and twenty odd minutes. The script by Richard Bennett and E.Kim Brewster keeps moving at a fair pace and is entertaining enough. But I still don't understand why Hamilton develops a serum that increases growth when he needs to develop a serum for Bobby to reverse his growth. The gore effects look OK with various ripped off faces, limbless torsos, decapitated heads, bitten off arms and torn out backs, but the stand out scene is where one of Hamilton's fellow scientists tries to steal his growth serum and cuts his finger on a glass slide and becomes infected with the serum, he starts to bubble up and melt in a pretty gross looking scene that boasts good make up effects, just ignore the crew member you can see in the bottom left hand corner of the picture with a syringe pumping the white goo that comes out of his bubbling skin. The giant rat effects weren't as bad as some say, a mixture of normal rats and miniature surroundings plus basic puppets, their only seen in quick flashes and didn't look that bad to my eyes. The giant hand effect at the end looks terrible, though. There is only one scene of nudity. The simplistic music sounds at times like it was composed on a children's electric keyboard. Overall I quite liked it and think it's at least worth a watch.