Deadly Eyes

A shipment of corn contaminated with steroids ends up in a Toronto warehouse, and the rats that eat it grow far beyond their normal size. Before long the animals take to the city's sewers and tunnels, emerging to attack people, and the residents of Toronto find themselves dealing with something worse than an ordinary infestation. A college basketball coach named Paul Harris and a health inspector, Kelly Leonard, set out to trace where the attacks are coming from.

Deadly Eyes is a 1982 horror, science fiction and thriller film directed by Robert Clouse, working from a screenplay by Charles H. Eglee. It is the fourth of the director's features listed here, following Enter the Dragon, Game of Death and The Big Brawl. Sam Groom and Sara Botsford lead the cast as Paul and Kelly, with Scatman Crothers, Cec Linder, Lisa Langlois and Lesleh Donaldson among the credited performers, thirty-eight in all. The production, mounted in Canada and Hong Kong, had a budget of about two million dollars and runs eighty-seven minutes.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 4.9 out of 10 from roughly 1,800 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 5.6 out of 10 from a much smaller group of about fifty voters. The two sets of scores sit relatively close together, suggesting a modest reception that has not shifted greatly between the larger and smaller sampling of viewers.