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A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Lois Berkson
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Shirley Blackwell
- Guest
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe surprise box office success of this film would inspire a huge amount of animal-themed horror films in the early 1970s.
- GoofsWhen Joan gives Willard Chloe the cat as a pet, she tells him that female cats are good company. Chloe was actually portrayed by a male cat.
- Quotes
Willard Stiles: Tear him up!
- ConnectionsEdited into Ben (1972)
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I wouldn't call it "Psycho", but it's still quite memorable
My mom remembers seeing "Willard" when it first came out, and so she encouraged me to see it. It tells the story of Willard Stiles (Bruce Davison), an outcast who still lives with his mother Henrietta (Elsa Lanchester). But Willard discovers that their house has some other inhabitants: rats. He quickly befriends the critters, and then turns them into a sort of army who will obey all his commands. To add to this situation, Willard and his mother believed that his father died naturally, but it begins to look like Willard's boss Al Martin (Ernest Borgnine) may have been involved.
The old, dark house, and the young man living with his mother might bring to mind "Psycho", but "Willard" seems to me to be more of a story of an outcast taking revenge on the world that rejected him.
The old, dark house, and the young man living with his mother might bring to mind "Psycho", but "Willard" seems to me to be more of a story of an outcast taking revenge on the world that rejected him.
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- May 22, 2005
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- Also known as
- Ratman's Notebooks
- Filming locations
- Higgins-Verbeck-Hirsch Mansion - 637 South Lucerne Boulevard, Windsor Square, Los Angeles, California, USA(exteriors and interiors of the Stiles family home)
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- Gross US & Canada
- $19,216,000
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