Watch: The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! 1972 123movies, Full Movie Online – The Mooneys are an eccentric English family whom live in a large house in rural England in the early 1900s. The invalid patriarch ‘Pa’ Mooney (Douglas Phair) is a retired medical doctor who claims to be 199 years old. His eldest daughter, Phoebe (Joan Ogden), more or less cares for him and is head of running the household. His eldest son, Mortimer (Noel Collins), is a businessman whom conducts the finances of the family and contributes to the family income. Younger daughter Monica (Hope Stansbury) is a sadist who keeps live rats as pets and frequently mutilates them and other small animals. Youngest son Malcolm (Berwick Kaler) is a half-wit with animal tendencies in which the family keeps him locked up in a room of the house with live chickens. The family has a secret: they are all werewolves! They are natural born, not made, werewolves whom turn once a month on the night of the full moon and Pa Mooney has been researching for years to find a way to break the family curse. Youngest daughter Diana (Jackie Skarvellis) returns home from medical school with a new husband, a former classmate named Gerald (Ian Innes), which Pa Mooney heartily disapproves of. Pa tells Diana that she is the last hope that the family has to overcome the ancient curse since she is the only member of the family who does not turn into a werewolf on the night of the full moon. Will Diana succeed? However, Diana is revealed to have other plans..
Plot: The daughter in a family of werewolves decides to put an end to the family curse.
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Atmosphere is here, artistry is coming
The tedious condescension of the other reviews notwithstanding, this film passes a number of screen tests that many a more mainstream big budget flick fails: does it have a horror film’s one essential, i.e., atmosphere? In spades, although an original score would have helped sustain it better; do the characters dispatch their difficult roles convincingly or do they camp it up in a desire to wink at the audience to let us know that they don’t take such an over-the-top scenario seriously? Very convincingly indeed. Mad Monica comes across as especially terrifying, and madness is always one of the hardest personas to bring off. (The actor playing the rather subdued character of Gerald is, perhaps an exception here, but the fault may reside with the part itself, which is the only “normal” voice in the action and suffers from some degree of underwriting.) And finally, the trump question of all dramaturgy: do you find yourself wanting to know how “Rats” ends and what becomes of its characters. Emphatically yes!
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 31 min (91 min), 1 hr 13 min (73 min) (director’s cut)
Budget 18000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated GP
Genre Horror
Director Andy Milligan
Writer Andy Milligan
Actors Hope Stansbury, Jackie Skarvellis, Noel Collins
Country United States, United Kingdom
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
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Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera Auricon
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm (blow-up)