Deadly Eyes

Deadly Eyes (1982)

Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin feeding on the residents of Toronto. Paul, a college basketball coach, teams up with Kelly, a local health inspector, to uncover the source of the mysterious rat attacks and they eventually try to prevent the opening of a new subway line as well as find the mutant rats nest quickly, or there will be a huge massacre of the entire city!

Data lansării
1982-10-23
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (51)
Durată
1 h 27 min
Genuri
Horror, SF, Thriller
Regizor
Robert Clouse

Distribuție

Curiozități

Deadly Eyes is a 1982 natural horror film directed by Robert Clouse and starring Sam Groom, Scatman Crothers, Sara Botsford, Cec Linder, Lisa Langlois, and Lesleh Donaldson. A loose adaptation of the 1974 horror novel The Rats by James Herbert, it revolves around giant black rats who begin attacking and eating the residents of Toronto after ingesting contaminated grain.

Production

The film was shot in Toronto from 21 January to 28 February 1982, on a budget of $1.5 million. Rather than using actual rats in the film, dachshunds wearing rat suits were used to achieve the effect of super-sized rodents.

Originally a British-set fiction novel, Deadly Eyes was instead set in Toronto, Canada, with scenic shots in the subway tunnels and snowy streets. Despite its Canadian setting, promotional posters sometimes featured images of a New York City skyline, complete with the then-iconic Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

American singer Chuck McDermott, along with the Chuck McDermott Band, recorded two folk rock songs for the soundtrack, both of which were used throughout the film: "Lolita" and "So Right". Robert Clouse heavily featured the usage of his own 1978 Bruce Lee film Game of Death (a spin-off of the unfinished 1972 film Game of Death) in a gory theatre scene, as well as footage from an American children's educational television show called Curiosity Sho…

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