Burial of the Rats is a 1995 made-for-cable-television American horror film directed by Dan Golden for Roger Corman’s New Horizons production company and Mosfilm. Also known as Bram Stoker’s Burial of the Rats
The movie stars Adrienne Barbeau, Maria Ford, Kevin Alber, Olga Kabo, Eduard Plaxin, Vladimir Kuleshov, Leonid Timtsunik, Maya Menglet, Yekaterina Batanova, Pavel Ostroukhov and Gosha Kutsenko.
It is very loosely based upon The Burial of the Rats, one of the original author’s short stories that was originally published in a 1914 collection entitled Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories.
In 19th-century France, novelist Bram Stoker is captured by two mysterious female bandits and plunged into the dark and bloodthirsty world of a cult that worships rats, hates men and lives by the sword. Falling in love with one of his captors, he must decide if he can escape from the beguiling depravity of the rat women…
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” … Dan Golden’s direction could do with more demented oomph. Come on… Rats! Underwear girls! Literary footnotes! Feminist pirates! Adrienne Barbeau! Torture! Duelling babes! Rapist monks! Bloody skeletons! How hard can it be to make something memorably insane with those ingredients? Does the world really need a staid, stately exploitation movie?” Kim Newman, Rotten Tomatoes
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Main cast and characters:
Adrienne Barbeau … The Queen
Maria Ford … Madeleine
Kevin Alber … Bram Stoker
Olga Kabo … Anna
Eduard Plaxin … Mr Stoker
Vladimir Kuleshov … Constable
Leonid Timtsunik … Verlaine
Maya Menglet … Mme Renaud
Yekaterina Batanova … Danielle
Pavel Ostroukhov … Priest
Gosha Kutsenko … New Priest
