Willard (2003)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 125
Fresh: 81 | Rotten: 44
In this creepy story of a man and his rodents, Glover seems born to play the oddball title character.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 12
In this creepy story of a man and his rodents, Glover seems born to play the oddball title character.
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A young man uses his vermin pals to exact revenge upon the people who've domineered his life in this remake of the 1971 cult classic. Starring Crispin Glover in the role originated by Bruce Davison, Willard concerns the mundane, repressed existence of the twentysomething title character, who lives at home with his nagging mother (Jackie Burroughs) and works at a shipping company for a stern, authoritarian supervisor (R. Lee Ermey). When Willard becomes fascinated with a gaggle of rats living in
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[Y]ou got a real opportunity here to do something really funny -- because Crispin Glover is really fun -- and something scary, but the rats, I guess, aren't up to the task.
Top CriticIn a culture clogged with appropriated effluvia and remake cop-outs, Willard is wittier and nastier than we deserve.
This new incarnation of Willard emphasizes one thing: no matter how bad the original was, it didn't need to be remade.
The movie keeps it close, clammy and simple, the better to focus on what is unquestionably this little thriller's strongest point: The tragic love between a boy and his rodent.
A silly, snarling romp.
What elevates this nouveau Willard above similar restorations of used pulp is the way it sustains the original's queasy menace while applying neatly stylized layers of grit and wit.
Terrifying and violent horror movie. Rats -- EWW.
No one can do the funny/scary/crazy/creepy high-decibel wig-out/breakdown scene nearly as well as Glover can.
The rats multiply at a rate that suggests Willard's basement is the city's red light district.
This Willard remix is a gothic, creaking, brilliantly macabre and unexpectedly intimate movie.
If you want a lesson in eccentric acting, or if you are interested in a nightmarish story well told, Willard is a noteworthy effort.
The filmmakers may have been too intelligent for their camp material. They spend too much time on background material, an over-developed hero, atmosphere, and in-jokes.
Não funciona como filme de terror (sua intenção original), mas torna-se interessante graças à curiosa atuação de Glover e à fotografia sombria. E Ermey é sempre fascinante.
...Writer-director Glen Morgan gives us nothing more than a standard horror/revenge of the nerd tale.
Each era gets the movies it deserves... This new version seems to exist in a bubble. It's got atmosphere to spare, but no real compelling reason...
Glover infuses Willard's relationship with the rats with a perverse sort of sexual energy, and it makes the film that much more disturbing.
The ultimate payoff doesn't quite equal its heady set-up, but the film is still a nasty little good time.
Willard will forever have a home in cinema, destined to become a cult favorite running as the quintessential second feature of a double bill with The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Crispin Glover's finest work since he told Biff to get his damn hands off her.
Willard can be appreciated, no, relished as a stylish throwback to a era when horror movies displayed more brains than blood.
Willard gets by mostly because of Glover, one of the most interesting characters in his own right when just being himself. I found the movie to be quite amusing, fun to watch and wonderfully acted.
Morgan's frightening and frivolous fable has an entrancing hysteria that teeters between a mocking macabre and a nail-biting social commentary...a menacing and hypnotic creep show that has perverse fun tantalizing its voyeuristic audience
As far as Crispin is concerned, rats spelled backwards is STAR. He owns this movie, every frame, not even upstaged by zillions of real and CGI rats.
For all its ickiness, Willard is actually that most exotic of movie creatures: a remake that handily bests the original.
Crispin Glover is Willard. . .take delight biting into this tasty slice of horror cheese.
I never expected 'Willard'" to be a page-marker in modern cinema. All I had hoped was that it wouldn't lose its taste for good baloney be-fore I did. We already had the cheese.
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