Rats! `Willard' remake disappoints.(Scene)

From: The Boston Herald | Date: March 14, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: STEPHEN SCHAEFER

"Willard."

Rated PG-13. At the AMC Fenway, Loews Boston Common and

suburban theaters.

Two stars (out of four)

"Willard," a tender tale of a lonely man and his rats, unfolds as a creepy horror story delivered with Hitchcockian flourishes and some of Tim Burton's off-kilter sensibility.

From Shirley Walker's wonderfully ominous score over imaginative, computer-generated titles in which creatures' skeletons come to life and there's a "living" portrait of Willard (Crispin Glover), this remake of the popular 1971 horror movie is all ...

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