Rats Take Hollywood! - Page 6
© Jane Adamo
Movie Ratviewers: Leslie Kuretzky
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INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (III)
How and when: The rats appear in masses, while Indiana and his blonde girlfriend-German-spy crawl thru ancient sewers and find the grave of King Arthur (or some such, cannot remember).
My thoughts: Typical stereotype appearance of rats as horrible pests. Lots of squeaking and running done by rats, lots of screaming done by blonde who has rats crawling all over her and even gets "locked in" under an upturned sarcophague (sp?) with these horrible creatures. Wish they would not portray the rats like that anymore. It's highly unlikely that rats just squeak and squeak as soon as a human sees them. On the other hand, there was a fire in the sewers, so maybe the rat stampede is understandable but no way those rats would stop to bite the girl. All they wanted to do was GET AWAY!
Movie Ratviewers: Clivia: Girl from Mars + die 3 Pelznasen <:3 )~~~~ Ragnarok + Fenrir + Shrek
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Three Vampire Films:
NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR
NOSFERATU: THE VAMPYRE
DRACULA
You can't have Halloween without horror movies, and you can't have horror movies without vampires. That said, you most certainly can't have vampire horror movies on Halloween without...RATS.
Count Dracula has been immortalized on screen as the most famous vampire of all time. Two of the earliest vampire movies made were based on Bram Stoker's classic novel published in 1897, Dracula.
The first, F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror" (1922, Germany, silent), stars Max Schreck as a bald, incredibly tall, toothy, and terrifying Count Orlok (Nosferatu)...described by many as having the face of a rat himself. This film is LOADED with rats. The ship that carries Orlok to Bremen is packed with coffins bearing the dirt of graveyards contaminated by the victims of plague. You know what that means: plague = rats. Rats play a key role in a scene which is, in my opinion, the most horrifying moment in any movie to date. When Orlok's coffin is hacked open, rats literally come pouring out just before the Count begins his slow and scary vertical rise from the sleep of the Undead. From that point on, wherever Orlok goes the rats are never far behind. Throughout history, the spread of mass disease and death has lead to the cultivation of the myth of the vampire as the carrier and cause of unexplained illnesses and lingering deaths. It's no surprise then that rats! (also as sociated with the spreading of plague) are so closely aligned with the vampire. Rats have been thought to be a tool used by vampires to spread disease quickly and detract attention from the vampire's own menacing behavior.
