Line #43 Film/FoodOfTheGods2


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2	->''"It's their party... you can die if you want to."''
3	-->-- '''Cover Blurb'''
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5	''Food of the Gods 2'', better known by its video title (or ''Gnaw: Food of the Gods: Part 2'' or simply ''Food of the Gods: Part 2'') is...a very strange film.
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7	Ostensibly, it's the sequel to Creator/BertIGordon's 1976 [[Film/TheFoodOfTheGods (partial) movie adaptation]] of Creator/HGWells' novel ''The Food of the Gods'', although the movie's shooting title was simply ''Gnaw'' and the connection to Gordon's film was added later. Certainly, it has nothing to do with the events of the 70's film beyond the title. In that film, the titular "food" was a mysterious oatmeal-like glop that burbled up from the ground. Here, the "food" (and it's only called that once) is a greenish growth serum developed by a scientist.
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10	!!Tropes used in this film:
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12	* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: [[spoiler:Neil has a nightmare wherein he bangs female student Mary Anne after taking the growth formula. It... doesn't end well.]]
13	* AnimalTesting: By both the ethical scientist (Neil) and the unethical one (Delhurst). Neil is using lab rats to try and find a means to reversing Bobby's gigantism; Delhurst, meanwhile, uses dogs and monkeys for what he ''claims'' is cancer research but is really just boneheaded attempts to find a cure for male-pattern baldness.
14	* AnimalWrongsGroup: The entire thing is caused by Mark and his animal rights group trashing Neil's lab and accidentally releasing the giant rats.
15	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Some versions of the movie poster show rats baring ferocious canine teeth, which rats and other rodents don't actually have.
16	* AttackOfTheTownFestival: Not a town festival per se, but Hamelin is unveiling a new sports complex complete with a swimming pool paid for donors, and White doesn't want a little thing like giant rats to spoil the occasion. It takes a lot of arm-twisting and the death of Neil's friend Joshua to even get him to agree to let Weizel and his men provide security at the event.
17	* BadassBystander: One guy ''tries'' to be this, grabbing a cop's dropped gun a one point, however he's untrained ''and'' panicking and ends up killing more of his own fellow innocent bystanders than rats. Weizel has to restrain him and take the gun away from him, giving him a good DopeSlap for good measure.
18	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Activist leader Mark is the first person killed by a giant rat.
19	* BodyHorror: See ImMelting below.
20	* BloodierAndGorier: It's definitely a lot gorier than the previous film.
21	* ChekhovsSkill: Neil's ability to summon his pet rat by playing a flute, which comes in handy at the end of the film.
22	* DangerTakesABackseat: One of the rats hides in the backseat of some poor schmoe's car.
23	* DeanBitterman: Dean White is a jerk just to ''be'' a jerk, it seems.
24	* DirtyCoward: During the attack on the pool, White tries to use Mary Anne as a HumanShield to protect himself from a rat. ''Then'' he shoves her at the rat as a DeliciousDistraction. [[spoiler:It fails.]]
25	* DodgyToupee: Delhurst wears one.
26	* DopeSlap: Weizel is fond of these. He mimes giving one to White behind the Dean's back to illustrate just how fed up with the guy, and later, he delivers a truly epic one to the attempted BadassBystander who steals a cop's gun and starts blasting away randomly, hitting more people than rats.
27	* DreamSequence: Neil has a nightmare in which he grows gigantic while banging Mary Anne.
28	* EccentricExterminator: The two Rat-A-Tak guys. Louis is a [[JabbaTableManners belching slob]] who slacks off and watches TV inside their pest control van, while Jacques is a [[CigarChomper cigar-chomping]] psycho who hunts rats with [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]] and laments that Americans don't take pride in their work anymore.
29	* EnfantTerrible: Giant kid Bobby insults and belittles his doctor before finally snapping her neck at the end of the film.
30	* ForgottenFallenFriend: Jacques never thinks to ask what happened to his buddy Louis...
31	* GoneHorriblyRight: The use of the growth formula to treat Bobby's hormone deficiency leads to him continuously growing as well developing a psychotic aggression, to the point at the end he kills his doctor and escapes.
32	* HumanShield: DirtyCoward Dean White tries to use Mary Anne as a human shield during the rats' attack at the pool. It doesn't work, fortunately for her.
33	* ImMelting: Edmond Delhurst's grisly fate by melting into a puddle of [[ItMakesSenseInContext dog cancer]], ''Film/StreetTrash'' style.
34	* ImprovisedWeapon: While being attacked in the library, Delhurst's assistant Brett makes a valiant attempt to defend himself with a hardcover copy of Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''Literature/AnimalFarm''.
35	* InNameOnly: It really has nothing to do with the Bert I. Gordon film (''or'' Wells' novel, for that matter).
36	* KarmaHoudini: Dean White. He has the least grisly death out of all of the characters - ''if'' he even died from that puny fall - despite being arguably the most deserving one.
37	* LeitMotif: The exterminators have a really awesome late-80's synthesizer theme when they first appear. It's later used when Jacques is out hunting the rats.
38	* MadScientist: Edmond Delhurst is a milder variety. Mostly he's just a greedy JerkAss.
39	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Carlos. After getting bitten on the ass by one of the giant rats while he's going to the bathroom, he runs around shrieking with his pants down around his ankles and his rear end bleeding. [[spoiler:Until he runs out into traffic and promptly gets hit.]]
40	* NoEnding: Bobby kills Dr. Travis, escapes and....roll credits.
41	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Dean White, who ''really'' does not want anything to jeopardize the opening of the college's new sports complex.
42	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Lieutenant Weizel. Unfortunately, his hands are (somehow) tied and he has to kowtow to White.
43	* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Given that it's a ''Food of the Gods'' movie, this is pretty much a given. Giant rats terrorize a college campus.
44	* SequelHook: The rats are taken care of, but Bobby has grown even bigger and killed his doctor before escaping.
45	* SexEqualsDeath: Carlos gets killed pretty much right after having sex with Mary Anne.
46	* ShoutOut: The university is called Hamelin College, a reference to ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin''. There are also a few scenes using the tune ''Three Blind Mice'' to lure rats, one on a flute, another ''Pied Piper'' reference.
47	* TooDumbToLive: Al and Angie descend into the sewers aiming to kill the giant rats... armed with a tennis racket and a butterfly net.
48	* TouchOfTheMonster: On one version of the VHS cover, the giant rat appears to be copping a feel of the dead woman's butt.
49	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Neil's reaction to finding the melted Delhurst.
50	* WavingSignsAround: The activists at the beginning do a lot of this.
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