The Killer Shrews

Um filme B fofo no qual cães, disfarçados de grandes ratos mutantes, ameaçam um grupo de pessoas numa casa numa ilha remota. O baixo orçamento e a incompetência criativa completam um argumento já medíocre. Desde as cenas de horror até às relações entre os personagens, irresistivelmente ingénuo. Não me arrependo de ter passado um único minuto com este guilty pleasure :-) (14/03/2009)

The most remarkable thing about this ultra-low-budget film is the fact that the producers were able to talk a then-popular country star, Miss Universe 1957, and the father of directing legend Sidney Lumet into it. The film's production design was really poor – the filmmakers made do with a single house surrounded by a high wooden fence somewhere in a not-so-lovely looking landscape and that's basically it. The visuals are lousy and unattractive, and the monsters themselves are the icing on the cake – killer "mutant rats", i.e. small greyhounds with long hair and sabre-like fangs. Every now and then they eat someone or break through a wall, and the only way to escape from them is in garbage cans. The way the attacks of the "monsters" are filmed (we put a stuffed animal's head in front of the camera, it somehow works) is really unintentionally funny and probably the only thing worth mentioning. (26/12/2012)