A lonely boy named Danny Garrison befriends Ben, the rat leader of the swarm of rats that had been trained by Willard Stiles. Ben becomes the boy's best friend, protecting him from bullying and keeping his spirits up in the face of a heart condition.

"Ben" (often referred to as "Ben's Song") [1] is a song written by Don Black and Walter Scharf for the 1972 film of the same name (a spin-off to the 1971 killer rat film Willard). It was performed by Lee Montgomery in the film and by Michael Jackson over the closing credits.

Do you ever get the feeling that when the Earth is finally conquered, it won’t be by rats but by tiny, beady-eyed, preschool super-intelligences, who attack us with atomic alphabets? Ben and his friends head for the sewers and plan their assault on mankind.

In this follow-up to 1971’s “Willard,” a dangerous friendship develops between an 8-year-old boy with a heart condition and his anarchistic pet rat.

Ben is a 1972 American horror film about a young boy and his pet rat, Ben. The film is a sequel to the film Willard (1971). The theme song, "Ben", is performed by singer Michael Jackson.

Ben is arguably the main protagonist of the 1971 horror movie Willard as well as its 1972 sequel Ben based on the 1968 short novel by Stephen Gilbert, and he is a large and hyper-intelligent rat who seems to have a vindictive, even evil, personality - quite happy to amass armies of rats to...

As Ben's rat colony continues to multiply in the sewers beneath Los Angeles, however, things soon take a violent turn. When Ben leads the rats on a deadly rampage through the city, it is up to the police to pull out all the stops to annihilate them once and for all.

A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.

Ben, the rat (nice to see him get top billing), is fleeing the scene of the crime when he comes upon a young boy with a heart condition that takes him in. While developing a tender relationship with the boy, Ben is also focusing on growing his rat hoard to take over the city.