#willard stiles

[theunmarkedtombstone]

#same.

— Willard (2003)

[gr33rdraws]

🐀 get willard’d 🐁

[briarrosefromthedead]

Willard (1971) dir. Daniel Mann

[2nd2tar]

just sketchbook things i suppose

cw// for drawings with blood stains but it doesn’t look real in the slightest, so :3

image 1: just a fish thing i watercolored

image 2: a doodle from the smp my friends and i play on

image 3: herbert west but it doesn’t look that much like herbert west do let’s just pretend it does- (ft. a crappy dano riddler doodle)

image 4: ben and socrates from willard cause my brain in rotting

image 5: willard ratman stiles himself

[boneopera]

my other secret type: scrungly delicate old fashioned freaky dudes who oft share the characteristic of having been driven mad by their circumstances

[unvexes]

but friend, this cage is inside out.

[theboarsbride]

🩸🐀Willard, Socrates, & Ben🐀🩸

Jump-scaring y’all with fanart for Willard (2003) because, imma be real with you peeps, I think Crispin Glover is fine as fuck and I love him in this movie he is such a weird n’ pathetic little guy, a horse girl but with rats, I need him so bad I need to kiss him and make his mommy issues worse and I need to-👹😩💦

[ghostly-biologist]

anyone here like willard?

[doyouknowthischaracter]

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

[milton-dammers]

Yes, this is a sign that rats have moved into my house.

[dick-chugger]

Realized something huge

[dragonscalie]

Unironically, Willard is probably one of my favorite franchises. It's not only because it resonated with me so hard as soon as I found it, seeing myself in Willard in a very spefifically autistic way. It's just a perfectly obscure yet pop culture that it's in a perfect middle ground where some people know about it but no one is really annoying about it y'know? I'm usually the only one to talk about it in my everyday life, usually people just know it as the rat movie but they don't usually get it.

Usually when I get into a movie and I learn it has a book based off of it I immediately have to get my hands on it and by far Ratman's Notebooks had to be one of the best (with Carnosaur being the worst.) It highlights everything about Willard as a character I love and his descent into becoming worse and worse until his death. I especially love how every single movie seems to be adapting it in its own way which is something that I find myself loving about this franchise. 1971 is probably the best adaptation, especially in the garden scenes which were sorely missed in 2003. 2003 adapts the dog scene and the tire scene the best and adds a nice gothic atmosphere which isn't Willard in my opinion but it's still a nice breath of fresh air. Ben 1972 is most interesting as its a sequel to the story but it still has its own adaptation of the store scene and has a fantastic interpretation of the rat hunt.

Even the songs about this franchise are great, Willard! by Will Wood is something that has definitely got a ton of neurodivergent teens into this over 50 year old rat madness. It's more than just that though, it focuses on Willard and Socrates' friendship which is something that was greatly improved in the 2003 movie which makes the song incredibly heartbreaking.

Ben's Song was made for the second movie by kid Michael Jackson which makes me incredibly sad that they just didn't get him to play the kid in the film. This song is a focus on Ben and Drew's friendship and has the implied acknowledgement of Ben's abandonment by Willard. It and Ben 1972 as a movie is just such a nice end to Ben's character, I kinda love the open ended ending looking back on it. Did Drew live through his heart surgery? Did Ben grow old and die happy in the arms of his best friend? No one knows! I like to think Ben lived long and happy with Drew, as do probably most people.

Speaking of actors, even if I prefer Bruce Davison as Willard I do really think Chrispen Glover did a good job. Even Lee Montgomery did pretty good as Drew, he was charming in a way. I do think Chrispen is too obvious as the Ratman as the entire point was no one expects it to be Willard but that's okay, that goes with his freak charm I guess. I really wish we could see another adaptation of Willard, particularly one that finally involves the rat mask because we haven't seen it adapted on screen at all and I think its a very iconic part of the book its on the cover for a reason.

A new Willard adaptation would do great as a tv show, adapting all the rat shenanigans from the book every episode in-between his office life. I don't know anyone who would be good at playing Willard himself but I vote for Matthew Lillard to take a crack at Mr Martin as he's too old play the ratman himself.

[briarrosefromthedead]

Willard (1971) dir. Daniel Mann

[2nd2tar]

if anyone wants to talk about Willard, especially the 1971 version or the Ratman’s Notebooks novel…..you should like. hit me up.

also fair warning that if you like or reblog this i will take that as an invitation to message you in case you don’t wanna reach out first

:]

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[teenytinycoffeebean]

Quickly posting this before I think it looks bad and I get too scared to share.

All time favorite rat boy. 🐀