Night Eyes (AKA Deadly Eyes-1982)
Dir: Robert Clouse1
"Tonight, they will rise from the darkness beneath the city...To feed!"
It's actually kind of refreshing to watch a horror film in which the heroes are middle-aged and most of the victims elderly...
A batch of foodstuffs enhanced with illegal chemicals is ordered destroyed by Canadian health officials. Before it's destruction, the material is fed upon by sewer rats, mutating them into dog-sized killers. Engineer/high school teacher Sam Groom (the prototype for TV's Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs) and Health Department agent Sara Botsford fall in love while investigating the deadly vermin. In a soap opera-y subplot, cheerleader Lisa Langlois (from the FUCKING AWESOME Class of 1984) attempts to seduce Groom. The mutant rats (dogs wearing obvious costumes) attack a revival screening of Game of Death during the Bruce Lee/Kareem Abdul-Jabar fight. The climax aboard a newly-opened subway train leaves things open for a sequel that never happened. It's an okay waste of time, but Cronenberg was doing much more interesting things in the Canadian horror arena at the time.
Enter...If you dare!
Big thanks to "Diamond" Dave Wheeler for the bitchin' logo!
This review seems shorter than the rest. Was it just not as interesting?
ReplyDeleteGreat now I want to watch Game Of Death!
ReplyDeleteYeah, this one seems like you didn't really like it.
ReplyDeleteI don't get that excitement from your previous posts.