88 FILMS BRINGS BRUNO MATTEI’S POST-APOCALYPTIC NATURE-RUN-AMOK FRIGHTENER RATS: NIGHTS OF TERROR TO BLU RAY!

RATS - NIGHTS OF TERROR (1984) 

Label: 88 Films

Release Date: November 12th 2018 
Region Code: B
Duration: 96 Minutes

Audio: English, Italian LPCM Stereo with Optional English Subtitles

Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.85:1)

Director: Bruno Mattei
Cast: Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Geretta Geretta, Massimo Vanni

On November 12th, 88 Films gives one of the late, great Bruno Mattei’s most enduring shockers a special edition to chew into! Was there a wilder and wackier helmer of extreme Italian exploitation madness than the late Bruno Mattei? The jack-of-all-trades journeyman genre-hopper indulged in some of the key trends of the Italian trash-boom, from the walking dead to Nazisploitation and from softcore skin-flaunting femmes to end-of-the-Earth meltdown movies. At 88 Films, we love him for his classic video nasty ZOMBIE CREEPING FLESH (1980), which we were proud to present in a restored and remastered HD edition just two years ago. We also admire his outrageous antics on such sleaze-ball icons as SS GIRLS (1977), THE OTHER HELL (1981), which gave us rampaging nuns, and the evocatively titled WOMEN’S PRISON MASSACRE (1983). Yet, all of these psychotronic trendsetters seem positively lightweight compared to Mattei’s rental shop mainstay RATS: NIGHTS OF TERROR! 

Unleashed in 1984, RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR was an immediate cult cause celebre – and it is not hard to see why! Whilst the titular tormenters are presented by the truck load, and gnaw their way into the flesh of many an innocent bystander, this is a Cold War-era film set 225 years after our world has been brought to a standstill by a nuclear war. The few survivors that remain scavenge for food and resources in what is left of their surroundings – only now, they also have to deal with a pack of hyperactive and horrifically motivated rodents, seeking to create the upper-hand in a new food chain! Packed full of gory surprises, a revelatory finale and some sublime set pieces, RATS: NIGHTS OF TERROR has been restored in HD, uncut and uncensored, offering those with nostalgia for their long-gone rental hub a chance to revisit one of the finest Italian fear-flicks of its era! Led by a cast that includes such Italian gore legends as Ottaviano Dell'Acqua (ZOMBIE FLESH-EATERS), Geretta Geretta (DEMONS) and Massimo Vanni (ZOMBI 3), 88 Films is delighted by this great new special edition of a timeless pot-boiler that packs-in babes, blood and blisteringly evil four-legged flesh-chompers! 

In addition to a sublime new remaster, 88 Films also offers audiences some intriguing special edition features for this insane nightmare opus – including, for the early birds, a fold-out poster featuring the original American theatrical art for RATS: NIGHTS OF TERROR! As well as a slipcover and limited edition booklet, this five star edition contains newly filmed interviews and a chance to watch Mattei’s masterpiece in English or Italian (with option subtitles). 

SPECIAL FEATURES 

- Limited Edition Gloss O-Card slipcase [First Print Run Only] 

- Limited Edition Interview with Geretta Geretta booklet by Dr Calum Waddell [First Print Run Only] 

- Limited Edition 150gsm Fold-out poster [First Print Run Only] 

- Remastered HD Transfer 

- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation 

- Uncompressed Original English Audio 

- Uncompressed Alternative Italian Audio 

- Newly translated English Subtitles fort he Italian Audio - NEW Interview with Stuntmen and leads Massimo Vanni and Ottaviano Dell'Acqua 

- NEW Interview with composer Luigi Ceccarelli 

- Theatrical Trailer 

- Reversible Sleeve with Italian title