Oh man, this week has taken me to some strange places. Like this made for TV movie - cable, one assumes, because no normal network was going to play this - from Dan Golden. Dan Golden, the man who directed Naked Obsession, Saturday Night Special, Timegate: Tales of the Saddle Tramps and T&A Time Traveler, says the voice inside my head? Yes, my imaginary special friend, the one and the same.
How does one even come to explain this one? One just dives in.
Back in 19th Century France, Bram Stoker - yes, the man who would one day write Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder and some other book - gets captured by a secret clutch of women who never wear more than bikinis and who have learned to use a flute to hypnotize rats so that they eat men.
Would it surprise you that this is yet another movie where Adrienne Barbeau is the queen of a sect of women who want to kill every man they see? Oh poor Adrienne, who went to Russia to make this and walked right into a coup attempt and then had to deal with the death of most of the trained rats, which meant that she was covered in fish eggs for most of the movie.
Golden used Maria Ford in his movies a whole bunch and she's here, front and center, as is Olga Kabo, perhaps the only actress to be awarded the Meritorious Artist of Russia and then show up in what is basically a Cinemax After Dark movie.
This movie gets major points for having slow-motion sword fights that go on forever, as well as a cute little miniature guillotine that gets used when any of the rats get out of line. You can tell this movie isn't from Italy, because when they kill one of them, it's a puppet.
It loses points for having Linnea Quigley as a rat girl and doing nothing with her. Alas!
How does one even come to explain this one? One just dives in.
Back in 19th Century France, Bram Stoker - yes, the man who would one day write Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder and some other book - gets captured by a secret clutch of women who never wear more than bikinis and who have learned to use a flute to hypnotize rats so that they eat men.
Would it surprise you that this is yet another movie where Adrienne Barbeau is the queen of a sect of women who want to kill every man they see? Oh poor Adrienne, who went to Russia to make this and walked right into a coup attempt and then had to deal with the death of most of the trained rats, which meant that she was covered in fish eggs for most of the movie.
Golden used Maria Ford in his movies a whole bunch and she's here, front and center, as is Olga Kabo, perhaps the only actress to be awarded the Meritorious Artist of Russia and then show up in what is basically a Cinemax After Dark movie.
This movie gets major points for having slow-motion sword fights that go on forever, as well as a cute little miniature guillotine that gets used when any of the rats get out of line. You can tell this movie isn't from Italy, because when they kill one of them, it's a puppet.
It loses points for having Linnea Quigley as a rat girl and doing nothing with her. Alas!