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* SexualEuphemism: While Trudy, a young high school freshman, telephones her adult male teacher and makes kissy noises on the telephone, the rock song "Lolita" by Chuck Mcdermott plays on a record player next to her. The lyrics include the chorous, "Lolita, Lolita come sit down beside me... Lolita, now tell me how that dress fits so tightly..."
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* SexualEuphemism: While Trudy, a young high school freshman, telephones her adult male teacher and makes kissy noises on the telephone, the rock song "Lolita" by Chuck Mcdermott [=McDermott=] plays on a record player next to her. The lyrics include the chorous, "Lolita, Lolita come sit down beside me... Lolita, now tell me how that dress fits so tightly..."
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* SexualEuphemism: While Trudy, a young high school freshman, telephones her adult male teacher and makes kissy noises on the telephone, the rock song "Lolita" by Chuck Mcdermott plays on a record player next to her. The lyrics include the chorous, "Lolita, Lolita come sit down beside me... Lolita, now tell me how that dress fits so tightly..."
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* SuitWithVestedInterests: Two of them are major contributors of the film's mayhem: there is the food company's executive, who amassed steroid-tained grain and did not do anything to prevent rats from eating it, and the town's MayorPain, who keeps trying to pretend there is nothing going on even as the bodies start to pile up so his prized train can be unveiled and make him look amazing - which, of course, leads to a massacre.
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* SettingUpdate: While the original novel is set in UsefulNotes/{{London}}, the film is set in Toronto.
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!! This film contains examples of the following tropes:
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That's a former trope name.
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* DropABridgeOnThem: [[spoiler:Trudy and Martha are both trampled to death by fleeing patrons during the rats' theatre assault.]]
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Trudy and Martha are both trampled to death by fleeing patrons during the rats' theatre assault.]]
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: DropABridgeOnThem: [[spoiler:Trudy and Martha are both trampled to death by fleeing patrons during the rats' theatre assault.]]
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* RaceLift: Foskins.
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* RaceLift: Foskins.Foskins is white in the novel but black in the film.
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* AdaptationTitleChange: Based on ''The Rats''.
* RaceLift: Foskins.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: The health inspector's EstablishingCharacterMoment is her inspecting the steroid-laced food that is the cause for this whole mess and discovering that it's both tainted and has very obvious marks of having been eaten by rats for some time now and she orders its immediate destruction, a decision she maintains even when the food company's CorruptCorporateExecutive tries to buy her off and then goes over her and complains to her supervisor by alleging that she's overreacting.
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* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: The health inspector's EstablishingCharacterMoment is her inspecting the steroid-laced food that is the cause for this whole mess and discovering that it's both tainted and has very obvious marks of having been eaten by rats for some time now and she orders its immediate destruction, a decision she maintains even when the food company's CorruptCorporateExecutive tries to buy her off and then goes over her and complains to her supervisor by alleging that she's overreacting.
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James Herbert himself was extremely dissatisfied with the manner in which the filmmakers adapted his story, calling the film "[[CreatorBacklash terrible, absolute rubbish]]".
