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Bruno Mattei's RATS vs James Herbert's DOMAIN

posted 12 years ago by Othy59
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Haven't seen the film, yet, but after reading the synopsis I'm noticing this sounds a lot like James Herbert's third book in The Rats Trilogy, DOMAIN. I'm even shocked that no-one else has brought this up either, but has anyone seen the film and read the book and thought that there's some similarities here?

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[–] glaeken777 12 years ago

Not really. Both feature survival in a post-nuke setting and harassment from rats.

I think the inspiration for Herbert's novel was the 1974 movie CHOSEN SURVIVORS. There are a lot of direct similarities, aside from the antagonists being bats in that film.

[–] wulfthar 12 years ago

In the featurette of the movie Mattei said his inspiration was Dawn of the Dead, basically it's a zombie movie with rats.

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