Willard (DVD)

“Willard” is basically a revenge-of-the-nerd story dressed up as a creepy horror flick. A remake of the 1971 original, which was apparently a cult classic, “Willard” returns to the big screen with the compellingly able Crispin Glover in the lead role. Willard Stiles is the perfect embodiment of a social outcast. A lonesome and withdrawn young man, Willard is cornered between his baleful hag of a mother at home, and his abusive tyrant of a boss at work, who delights in demeaning Willard in front of all his colleagues (almost none of which are his friends). Boss Martin has also, incidentally, taken full control of his family company. No ...

Willard is a strange, strange film. It is the story of Willard Stiles, a young man stuck in a dead end job at the firm his dad founded and used to own. Now owned by his dads partner and guaranteed the job as part of his dads will he has nothing much to live for. He lives at home with his mum, who permanently wants her son to do things for her; he has a hopeless life with no future. His existence changes when his mother thinks she hears some rats in their basement and orders Willard to go down there and sort them out. When he ventures into the basement to find the rats he discovers he has some sort of connection, a kind of power over the rats. He finds in them the family ...

I was sat at my computer while my media player started to play 'Lemon (Dance Mix)' from U2. I hadn't heard this song before and so when "You are my friends now" and "I feel alive again" came through the speakers I assumed this was part of the song and thought it was pretty impressive. However it turned out that the voice was from a film trailer which had loaded without me realising. This film trailer was "Willard". This made me fascinated by the film. The actor (Mr. Glover) sounded quite demonic and insane and as it was billed as a horror I thought this could be quite interesting. So in short: ...