If you leave it a particularly long time between rewatch a movie, on some occasions your memory can be corrupted...and usually for the worse. One example is Memento (a film I plan to rewatch in it's entirety shortly) that a brief glance of a Bluray copy reminded me how absorbing the intricate plot was and how lush Wally Pfister's cinematography is...not the complicated, grubby movie I thought I remembered. Willard is like that too, which I believed to be a skanky, low budget affair...but proves to be a glossy and well directed darkly comic horror.
Willard is the 2003 remake of the 1971 original which has the introverted heir of a family business strike up an "understanding" with the rats who live in his house. It's a bit larger than life (well it has to be for a bloke that talks to rats and commands them to feast on his enemies) and very old fashion and gothic looking...like an escapee from an Addams Family school of film making.
R Lee Ermey is predictably and suitably shouty as Willard's unpleasant boss but it's Crispen Glover in the title role who's perfectly cast. A simpering wreck one minute...a seething psychopath the next...it's a role Glover was born to play. So well does he portray the tragic anti-hero that you begin to wonder whether Glover is simply playing himself. Hmmmm...
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