Willard

Willard (1971)

  • 57% of critics liked it
    (14 reviews)

  • 52% want to see it
    (2,252 ratings)

This film is based on the novel Ratman's Notebooks, by Stephen Gilbert. Bruce Davison is Willard Stiles, a 27-year-old mama's boy whose repressions are bottled up inside and come to the fore in his nervous nail-biting. As one character describes Willard, "Willard is basically an extrovert, but it's… More

PG, 1 hr. 35 min.
Directed By
Daniel Mann
Genres
Horror

Critic Reviews

  • Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

    Really little more than a crudely directed revenge thriller.

  • Clint Morris, Moviehole

    A killer classic with teeth!

  • Staci Layne Wilson, StaciWilson.com

    It's a cult classic with claws.

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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

  • James Sanford, James Sanford on Film

    The most terrifying thing about the movie is the sight of Ernest Borgnine strutting around in skin-tight red polyester pants; even an army of swarming rats is easier to look at than that.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    A pretty good cast, but the movie isn't very scary at all, in fact it's kind of funny at times. I liked it anyway.

  • Cindy I


    For some reason I've always had a thing for Bruce Davison. No idea why. That's probably why I liked this movie years ago. Don't even know if I could sit through it now...I shudder just thinking about all the mice running around everywhere. YIKES!

  • Moe E


    Bruce Davison (of X-Men fame) befriends a cute, white rat he names, Socrates, and an intelligent, brown rat named, Ben. They have great fun together until...

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