Ragged.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 28, 2021

Mann's shoddy staging, haphazard framing (he seems to be allergic to close-ups) and low-contrast lighting sap the drama and tension from most of the movie. The ending is cool, though.

| Sep 28, 2018

It's brave work, and the role seems tailor-made for the actor, who's enjoyed an entire career playing easily winded jerks, with Willard's descent into authority and panic vividly captured.

| Sep 28, 2018

It's a complex and sympathetic character study and for a few misfits in the audience, it gave us a protagonist we could finally identify with and a film that helped define our later lives.

| Sep 28, 2018

Willard is a strange affair now, as it isn't really that horrifying and the pay-offs at the end are relatively tame. It struggles in what it is trying to be and indeed.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 18, 2017

One of those movies that every horror buff needs to see.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2017

Mann's original is one of those great '70s genre movies that is a good movie FIRST and whose horror creeps slowly and organically out of the narrative and character arcs.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 13, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2008

Really little more than a crudely directed revenge thriller.

| Original Score: C | Apr 9, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 14, 2005

A killer classic with teeth!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2005

The movie, however, persists in crossing its lines of stimulation, resulting in a series of little short-circuits that effectively limit pleasure to an occasional line or bit of business.

| May 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 11, 2005

What is it in this film that touches some deep-buried nerve in the public psyche? Why does wholesome family entertainment fade away, while rats make millions?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Willard has some terrifying moments but it never comes up to being a'Psycho with rats that it sometimes aspires to. In between the horror scenes matters develop with little suspense or even mood.

| Nov 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2003

Any movie with Ernest Borgnine eaten by rats isn't all bad.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 23, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 31, 2003