Foster on Film

Neurotic weakling Willard (Bruce Davison) lives with his overbearing mother (Elsa Lanchester) and her equally overbearing friends, and works for sleazy Mr. Martin (Ernest Borgnine) who stole his father’s business. While failing to do his chores, he meets, and slowly bonds with some rats in his backyard. The bond becomes closer and closer, particularly with

Ben, the lead rat from Willard, picked up tens of thousands of followers in the 10 seconds between it and its prequel. Now he has an army of rats to feed, which is hard work, and involves breaking into grocery stores and trucks. It’s made harder by the police who are dealing with the dead

Willard (Crispin Glover), an anti-social loser, finds relief from his bleak life by training rats, numbered in the thousands, to do whatever he commands.  But his lack of personality, along with a relationship triangle between Willard and the rats Socrates and Ben, leads to tragedy. A horror film completely devoid of horror, Willard has many