Nomination Year: 2008

SYNOPSIS: World's Stupidest Post-Apocalyptic Bikers are picked off one-by-one by rats. Squeak.

Seriously.

The aforementioned biker gang breaks into a building (for shelter). They find crates of supplies (flour, sugar, etc), and dead scientists (on the floor, in chairs, etc). They spend the night in this building. During the night, rats chew through the tires on their motorcycles, thus trapping them (shades of Dead End Drive-In). As the movie progresses, the bikers exhibit the common sense and teamwork abilities of your average group of 12-year-old male D&D players. The rats pick them off one by one.

Smithee Award Nominations

Worst Special Effect
Conveyer Belt of Rats Back from the water run (but without water), the bikers are trying to break into the room they've been locked out of. But the rats are coming at them in waves! Or at least, somebody glued some furry lumps to a conveyer belt.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

"Cutting Butter With A Chainsaw"

"Rats! I Mean Darn! ARGH!" They've discovered Lillith, dead. A rat comes out of her mouth, freaking everyone. Just then, Noah pops up in the doorway, covered in real rats and fake blood, screaming. Kurt, a bit quick on the hair trigger, sets Noah on fire with his flamethrower. Noah wanders off, flaming, screaming, and crashes through a window. The rest of the biker gang follows. "Finish him off!" says Kurt, so they shoot Noah. At point-blank range. With a shotgun. At which point he is really most sincerely dead.

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"WHAT?!"
JiffyPop™ Rat Zombie They've found Torres. He's dead. Mysteriously, his corpse starts to swell. It rips open, and ... there's a rat inside. Just one. Huh?	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Worst Picture

"Thank Goodness Our Heads Are Screwed On!" The bikers have barricaded themselves into one room in order to defend themselves from the rats. Diana walks past an open window. Chocolate: "Oh my God, we forgot to barricade that window!" As if on cue, rats pour through the window and onto Diana. The other bikers rescue her, and drag her over to one of the beds. "She's covered in bites," says Chocolate. "We need to wash her wounds with water." Torres: "I forgot the water!" Kurt : "That's okay. We'll break out of here and get some water." And then they leave the mutinous second-in-command alone with all the women, and instructions to let them back in when they knock. It ends about as well as you'd expect.

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Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Bruno Mattei	Has 20 directing pseudonyms, rivaling the great Godfrey Ho in that department.
Claudio Fragasso	co-wrote screenplay for Rats with Bruno Mattei

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Ottaviano Dell'Acqua	<Not Yet in Database>	Co-starred in 9 movies with Massimo Vanni.
Geretta Geretta	<Not Yet in Database>	She was in Terminator II, but not that Terminator II. Variously known as "Janna Ryann," "Geretta Giancarlo," "Geretta Marie Fields," or "Marie Giancarlo Geretta" throughout her B-Movie career.
Massimo Vanni	<Not Yet in Database>	co-starred in 9 movies with Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
Atanas Srebrev	Reporter #1	A TON of small credits, many Smithee, including Agent Madison in Hellboy (the 2019 David Harbour version), Freidman in Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, Carlo in Raging Sharks, Erik Anderson in SharkMan, Captain Bonasera in Sharks in Venice...wait...does this guy have a shark fetish or something?
Mariana Stansheva	Roberta	More a casting director than actress, but has been in a slew of Bad Movies in bit parts. Was Mrs. Wisniewski in A Christmas Story Christmas.
David Hemblen	Richard	Serokin in Rollerball (2002); Archer in Tommy Boy; Jones in Short Circuit 2; Det. Dick Hargrove on the awful Mr. T vehicle "T and T"; and Jonathan Doors on "Earth: Final Conflict." Voiced cartoon Big Bads such as Magneto on the "X-Men" animated cartoon, Lord Dread in the "Captain Power" franchise, and Shere Khan in the later Jungle Book DTV (non-Disney) films.

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