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| Director: | Robert Clouse | 
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| Writer: | James Herbert, Charles H. Eglee | 
| Staring: | 
| Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin feeding on the residents of Toronto. Paul, a college basketball coach, teams up with Kelly, a local health inspector, to uncover the source of the mysterious rat attacks and they eventually try to prevent the opening of a new subway line as well as find the mutant rats nest quickly, or there will be a huge massacre of the entire city! | |
| Release Date: | Oct 23, 1982 | 
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| Director: | Robert Clouse | 
| Writer: | James Herbert, Charles H. Eglee | 
| Genres: | Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller | 
| Keywords | based on novel or book, canada, subway, mutant, toronto, canada, animal attack, gore, ontario, canada, bowling alley, rat, canuxploitation | 
| Production Companies | Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Filmtrust Productions, Northshore Investments, J.G. Arnold & Associates | 
| Box Office | Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 | 
| Updates | Updated: Aug 09, 2025 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 | 
| Name | Character | 
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| Sam Groom | Paul Harris | 
| Sara Botsford | Kelly Leonard | 
| Scatman Crothers | George Faskins | 
| Cec Linder | Dr. Louis Spenser | 
| Lisa Langlois | Trudy White | 
| Lesleh Donaldson | Martha | 
| James B. Douglas | Mel Dederick | 
| Lee-Max Walton | Tim Harris | 
| Joseph Kelly | Matt | 
| Kevin Foxx | Hoserman | 
| Jon Wise | Skip | 
| Wendy Bushell | Liz | 
| Roger Dunn | Doctor Gordon | 
| Name | Job | 
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| James Herbert | Novel | 
| Douglas J. White | Special Effects Makeup Artist | 
| Kenny Myers | Special Effects Makeup Artist | 
| Anthony Guefen | Original Music Composer | 
| Ron Wisman | Editor | 
| Cathy Henderson | Casting | 
| Ninkey Dalton | Art Direction | 
| Francisco X. Pérez | Special Effects Makeup Artist | 
| Robert Clouse | Director | 
| Charles H. Eglee | Screenplay | 
| René Verzier | Director of Photography | 
| Allan A. Apone | Special Effects Makeup Artist | 
| Name | Title | 
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| J. Gordon Arnold | Executive Producer | 
| Paul Kahnert | Producer | 
| Jeff Schechtman | Producer | 
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