Film

Burial of the Rats

Name: Burial of the Rats
Genre: Horror, TV Movie
Released: 1995
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Maria Ford, Kevin Alber, Olga Kabo, Eduard Plaxin

Horror
Strange

A 1995 low-budget horror film that transplants young Bram Stoker into 19th-century France, where he's captured by a cult of warrior women who use flesh-eating rats to punish evildoers. It's campy, weird, unapologetically trashy, and absolutely committed to its absurd premise. For viewers who love B-movies with eccentric ideas and no pretense of respectability.

TMDb rating

1.8

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