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Already dealing with a tough and thankless job, a group of utility workers face further hardship when they get trapped in an abandoned hospital’s underground tunnel system with a scientist who has been screwed over by his badly burnt benefactor. Dr. Leech has been injected with his own serum by the rich psychopath’s goons to make sure it works. It’s supposed to regenerate the crispy dickhead’s skin but he wants to be sure there’s no ill effects. Said serum will literally turn you into what you eat (it also makes you really hungry) and this scientist happens to be locked in a tunnel where the only thing to feed on is a rat and a dog. This turns him into a mutant rat-dog-man. How does this science work? Shut up. That’s how. So the rat monster is roaming around and hungry as fuck, which is bad news for Tom Sizemore and his cleaning crew who are scavenging the abandoned hospital because the city doesn’t pay them enough. What they’re doing ain’t legal, so the best way to get access into the hospital buildings is through the underground tunnels connecting everything. Now you know why Sizemore, his niece, his second in command and the prank-playing teenage dope that works for him find themselves in the tunnels with rat-dog-man. The rich prick’s goons also head down there (under the command of the sociopathic Kendal and her cold, dead heart) looking for the mutated doctor. Throw in a Jamaican homeless man and the burnt billionaire waiting in a limousine just outside. Kendal makes sure to lock up the tunnels because there’s a no witness order in place. Violent ends meet most of the cast as claw renders flesh and Dr. Rat-Dog chows down on people. The worst part of the film (Jamaican homeless man) gets plenty of time to deliver his awful performance which I think was supposed to be comic relief but never approaches anything close to that. Kendal looks like Dana Scully if you got Dana Scully off of Wish and then accidentally washed her with some chemical compound that makes something duller. The monster is of the slimy man in a suit variety and Tom Sizemore actually puts a little oomph into his role… not much but more than this deserves. The script is as witty as a braindead 90’s action flick but nobody can really nail the delivery of the lines so it just feels really fucking awkward… like children imitating something they have no understanding of. It’s a dumb monster movie that doesn’t aim to be anything more than a stupid B-movie… and there’s nothing wrong with that.
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