JFL We’re Failing Our Boys… if They Haven’t Seen 1971’s Rat-Obsessed Incel Horror ‘Willard’

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We’re Failing Our Boys… if They Haven’t Seen 1971’s Rat-Obsessed Incel Horror ‘Willard’

IndieWire After Dark revisits cult classics in the streaming age. This week, we're watching Bruce Davison and a pack if rats in "Willard" (1971).

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Laughably bad at his human job, inherited by Willard through the passing of his much more successful father, our hero presents with the beleaguered, insecure entitlement of a modern-day incel… at first. But softening in the presence of a beautiful temp agent (Sondra Locke), and amicably getting along with his mother’s wacky cast of friends, the Pied Piper of Rodent Cinema leaves an increasingly likable impression.

We’ve felt disconnected for a long, long time. If modern men really wants to solve the loneliness epidemic, maybe the the answer isn’t dating apps or AI girlfriend… but rats.

At its core, “Willard” falls into a horror subgenre of violent revenge nightmare/fantasy that’s probably most famously embodied by the iconic Prom Night rampage in “Carrie.” In a film like this, you’re ostensibly meant to root against the terror that the central characters wrecks on his victims. But in practice, the targets of these pantomime kills are so loathsome and lacking in their humanity that you’re ultimately awaiting their demise with a smile.

When the rats inevitably turn on Willard himself, however, it registers as a genuine tragedy. I was unfamiliar with actor Bruce Davison before this week’s After Dark, and his performance is fundamental to the movie’s success. Rewatched today, through no foreseeable fault of the movie or actor, Davison’s wimpy, anti-social straight white loner character still looks like a caricature but feels darker. In a world where Willard had the internet, he’d find as much solace via manosphere podcasts as he did in rats.

"Just train a horde of rats to sic on chads" Theory


View: https://youtu.be/TSJ6nVJjBLM?si=ttimRhmlES9fr7eQ

 

[DoomThreeKoala]

Nothing but slop.

 

[Justanotherbloke]

I don't want to watch post-war 70's Jew propaganda, no thanks. If you want to de-radicalize me, lock me up in jail or put me in a camp instead of promoting this.

 

[4sez]

I don't want to watch post-war 70's Jew propaganda, no thanks. If you want to de-radicalize me, lock me up in jail or put me in a camp instead of promoting this.

IT is taking notes right now.

 

[endoftheskies]

We’re Failing Our Boys… if They Haven’t Seen 1971’s Rat-Obsessed Incel Horror ‘Willard’

IndieWire After Dark revisits cult classics in the streaming age. This week, we're watching Bruce Davison and a pack if rats in "Willard" (1971).

www.indiewire.com

"Just train a horde of rats to sic on chads" Theory


View: https://youtu.be/TSJ6nVJjBLM?si=ttimRhmlES9fr7eQ

Im tired on how they project onto other forms of media, and reinterpret it and revision it so it matches their narrow ideology and worldview. Are we serious?