6. Rats: Night Of Terror (Mattei & Fragasso, 1984)
This post-apocalyptic film (set in the not-too-distant 2015) is a routine Italian exploitation film. That means it's insane. Co-directed by exploitation veterans Bruno Mattei and Troll 2 (1990) helmsman Claudio Fragasso, the film looks like it was made without a director let alone two. Survivors of a nuclear attack are faced with hundreds of genetically mutated, killer rats. The action is silly, the effects are poor and the dialogue laughable but the film is undeniably fun as long as you don't concentrate on the braincells that you are losing while watching it. The film peaks at the end when those who have survived the rat attack think they are being saved by men in yellow macs and oxygen masks. Only the people behind the masks are not really people at all but are, in fact, rats! If this reveal was meant to be terrifying then it failed. The slow removal of the oxygen mask revealing the obviously fake giant rat/human is incredibly funny. Good in a so-bad-it's-good kind of way, Rats: Night of Terror should satisfy the midnight movie crowd.