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I’m ten minutes into this movie and I’ve already met the cybernetic Dr. Christopher Steele (Randal Malone), a krimi looking robot supervillain; giant rats attacking a spaceship; a rat worm its way into the crotch of heroine Sonia (Tasha Tacosa) and artillery being loaded out of a Space Steele Corporation AC-130 to blow a rocket out of the sky. Needless to say, I’m in love with this and it hasn’t even got started yet.

Jeff Leroy makes movies that feel like they were drawn in Spanish class by a bored 16 year old instead of paying attention. I’m talking stuff like Frankenstein in a Women’s Prison, Furious Road and Giantess Attack vs. Mecha Fembot.

Now, this movie is obviously made with miniatures and no budget — and all the CGI quality that implies — but it’s heart is worth a million blockbusters. I mean, this movie has a mysterious planet just showing up in our solar system and a woman being controlled by a super smart psychic rat that lives where her guts used to be. And this movie is in no way afraid of showing you just how disgusting that would be.

Why does Dr. Steele look like he does and have metal hands? “Probably a rocket explosion. Need to know basis.” This is how you do dialogue. Of course Sonia’s ex is Jake Walsh (Ford Austin), an ex-Special Forces guy who is willing to hide her even if she is bringing rats to destroy our world.

Speaking of giant rats, there was nearly a kaiju movie in the 60s that would have changed the scope of the genre. Giant Horde Beast Nezura was a movie that was directed by Mitsuo Murayama and produced by Daiei Film, but it was shut down by the health department because the brown rats being used for the rat swarm could transmit diseases. Daiei wasn’t put off making kaiju films and soon made Gamera.

Somehow, this movie combines Starship Troopers, Aliens, Rats: Night of Terror and every 1950s science gone wild movie along with special effects that go from “how did they do that?” to “that’s obviously a rat from PetSmart with CGI red eyes.” It also remembers that gore is so essential, so why not have a woman eat a man’s throat while blood sprays like the geyser of a Japanese samurai movie?

This is the kind of movie that demands to be watched with an audience, as it has stuff in it like a rat temple on Planet X; a Phantom of the Opera-like scene where we see Professor Steele’s face, Sonia shooting herself in the head and the rats refusing to let her die, so she wears a hat to cover the whole in her head; a drunk named Teddy exposing the rat in her head that uses its psychic powers to blow him into chunks; Jake cutting himself to feed her blood and that scene being shot as if its sexy and, of course, giant rats taking over most of America.

This ends on a cliffhanger and man, I wish Jeff Leroy made ten of these.