Rats

[trickykitty]

Ok, I've given up searching, so now I'm asking and I truly believe that at least one of you will know the answer to this.

I'm trying to recall the name of an old (70's or most likely 80's) movie in which a giant, seemingly smart rat has invaded a man's home. His wife and daughter go on vacation visit the grandmother and he begins the exterminating process. Oh wait, scratch that. The man becomes psychotically obsessed with getting rid of this rat which he knows is taunting him because this is a special designer rat.

So the entire movie is about the lengths to which this obsessed man will go to kill this rat.

Any ideas?

EDIT: It is not she short story from the movie Nightmares, before anyone makes that suggestion. This is a full-length movie and it is one rat versus one man.

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[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

It's Of Unknown Origin, starring a then-unknown Peter Weller. I remember that one well, especially when he goes to look for a missing rat trap and discovers that it's been moved by the rat...right where he's putting his hand.

That's the one!

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

I had a feeling that of all the people on my f-list, you should be the one to come to my rescue. I searched up and down and in and out of Google and IMDB, and I knew if I just heard it's name I'd recognize it. While I know the movie pretty well enough, I can never for the life of me remember the name of it. So basically if I just remember that it's got RoboCop in it, then I should be able to hunt it down the next time I'm at a loss for the title.

Yeah, I watched that one more than a few times as a child. I think Of Unknown Origin, Alligator, Them!, and (Heaven help me) Night of the Lepus were the animal horror flicks that stuck out best in my mind while growing up. Amazingly enough, I never really watched Jaws, and to this day I'm pretty sure I still haven't seen all of it.

Looking back at IMDB's keywords now that I can pull up the movie by title, I had tried "giant rat" and "animal attack" together, but apparently only "rat" "animal attack" and "giant animal" are listed as keywords for the movie, and you have to get the combination exactly right to filter the search correctly. I even tried "New York" as a keyword, but lo and behold, it is not a part of the keyword listing for this movie. Those bastards.

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

Oh, and of course, now I'm completely curious at to whether or not The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/) should be on my "why have I not already seen this movie yet" list, and I have another gut feeling that you are the person to be asking.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

It's funny that you bring that up, because the Czarina snagged the DVD a year back, and she finally watched it about two weeks ago. It was the first time I'd seen it since 1985, and I'll say that it didn't age very well. Of course, I considered it one of the most overhyped fanboy fests this side of Return of the Jedi back then, a film so bad that even John Lithgow is completely wasted in it, so at least you know where I stand.

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

Duly noted then :)

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

And Lo! I did join the IMDB team and recommend "giant rat" and "new york" as keywords to be added to this movie title.

I'm a productive little squirt sometimes. At least when I want something. :)

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

Update: I rock.

IMDB added my recommended keywords (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086036/keywords) to the list for Of Unknown Origin.