BURIAL OF THE RATS (1995) Review and overview

  

Burial of the Rats – or Bram Stoker’s Burial of the Rats – is a 1995 made-for-cable-television American horror feature film directed by Dan Golden for Roger Corman’s New Horizons production company and Mosfilm.

The film stars Adrienne Barbeau, Maria Ford and Kevin Alber as Bram Stoker.

It is very loosely based upon The Burial of the Rats, one of the original author’s short story 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…

Buy DVD: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk

Reviews:

” … 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

Buy DVD from Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk

Buy: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk

MOVIES and MANIA provides an aggregated range of film reviews from a wide variety of credited sources, plus our own reviews and ratings, in one handy web location. We are a genuinely independent website and rely solely on the minor income generated by internet ads to stay online and expand. Please support us by not blocking ads. If you do block ads please consider making a small donation to our running costs instead. We'd really appreciate it. Thank you. As an Amazon Associate, the owner occasionally earns a small amount from qualifying linked purchases.