# Help me figure out what this movie is called **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 27, 2001, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-this-movie-is-called/63472 "2001-04-27T01:10:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![moggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@moggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moggy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-this-movie-is-called/63472/1 "2001-04-27T01:10:45Z")
Inspired by that other post about “a movie that gave me nightmares”. This is a movie I saw at a friend’s house when I was probably 5 or 6- it was a Saturday afternoon and we were in the livingroom playing while his dad watched the ‘Saturday Afternoon Creature Feature’ or whatever. The only thing I remember is that there was a mad scientist type guy, and he had this cage with a rat in it that he strapped to a woman’s face, and it showed the rat chewing on her face and her saying “no…no”. I remember thinking that the actress was Ginger from Gilligan’s Island but I was probably just associating it because I think she had the same hairstyle. Anyway, later a guy (the hero maybe?) confronts the mad scientist dude in his lab and is yelling at him about the rat-cage and either puts it on him or throws it at him and the mad scientist runs away or something. There might have been a castle in it, at one point there was a girl searching for the woman I mentioned above. Sorry it’s so vague, I was only half-watching it and it REALLY disturbed me- I think I went home and went to bed or something. If anyone can tell me what the title is of this, THANK YOU! I don’t know if I would watch it again because it’s part of the reason I have a rat phobia now (I think). Or if nobody knows what it’s called if you could direct me to a website whre I might search for it- the ones I have tried have not come up with anything. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-this-movie-is-called/63472/2 "2001-04-27T01:34:28Z")
Well, it could be part of _Food of the Gods Part 2_. In it, giant rats infest a university. There’s a scientist doing growth hormone testing on rats (hence the giant rats). It’s the first movie that comes to mind when someone mentions a cheezy horror flick with rats (the first one has rats, but also a lot of other animals). There are a couple of really good horror movie sites that you could check out: [The Cabinet of Dr. Casey](http://www.drcasey.com/index.shtml) [The House of Horrors](http://www.houseofhorrors.com/index.htm) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-this-movie-is-called/63472/3 "2001-04-27T01:45:24Z")
I know it’s not relevant to the OP, really, but… can I just mention how ironic it is that someone whose username is “moggy” has a fear of rats? Not laughing at you or anything…just kind of chuckling at the juxtaposition… jayjay ---
**Author:** ![moggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@moggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moggy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-this-movie-is-called/63472/4 "2001-04-27T01:54:43Z")
Thanks but that wasn’t it…I saw this movie on tv in the mid-70s, so it had to be older than that. It may have been in black-n-white but that may have been my friend’s tv set too. ---
**Author:** ![moggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@moggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moggy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-this-movie-is-called/63472/5 "2001-04-27T02:11:47Z")
To Jayjay- I’m assuming you mean because moggy is slang for cat and cats catch rats…how refreshing to meet someone who actually knows that! I get so tired of explaining to people, “Well, moggy is British slang for cat, and I’m a cat person, etc.etc.” and have them still give me a funny look. Well I’m an Anglophile! and a weirdo and I’m not ashamed! Thank you…thank you verra much. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-this-movie-is-called/63472/6 "2001-04-27T03:22:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by moggy \* > \*\*To Jayjay- I’m assuming you mean because moggy is slang for cat and cats catch rats…how refreshing to meet someone who actually knows that! I get so tired of explaining to people, “Well, moggy is British slang for cat, and I’m a cat person, etc.etc.” and have them still give me a funny look. Well I’m an Anglophile! and a weirdo and I’m not ashamed! Thank you…thank you verra much. \*\* Exactly. Agatha Christie does wonders for one’s vocabulary of Briticisms… 😃 jayjay ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-this-movie-is-called/63472/7 "2001-04-27T03:34:29Z")
[hijack]I knew moggy from a song that Clam Chowder used to sing (they’re a group of musicians in the Maryland/DC area who did the sci-fi convention circuit among other things). It’s a song about a rather unfortunate cat, found by the side of the road. Full of terrible cat puns. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-this-movie-is-called/63472/8 "2001-04-27T06:06:22Z")
Probably wrong but… Something about that description makes me think “The Pit and the Pendulum”. I know, the rat thing has nothing to do with the story, but what I remember of the movie didn’t have much to do with it, either. ---
**Author:** ![loislane138](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@loislane138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loislane138)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-this-movie-is-called/63472/9 "2001-04-27T06:25:26Z")
The movie in question wouldn’t be “The Rue Morgue Massacres” would it? LP ---
**Author:** ![berdollos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@berdollos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/berdollos)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-this-movie-is-called/63472/10 "2001-04-27T06:29:09Z")
The novel, 1984, I believe, had a similar rat-eating-face scenario. And, what’s more, it was to punish a person who had a major rat phobia.