Rats! (2025)

Original title

RATS!

Directed by

Maxwell Nalevansky, Carl Fry

Genre

black comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 2007 Texas, a man named Raphael gets arrested and then pulled into a messy world of drug dealers, eco-activists, mall teens, and rappers. The movie uses crass and silly humor to poke fun at small-town life and youth culture of that era.

chaoticabsurdsatiricalgross-outfast-pacedenergeticunpredictable

What happens

Rats! (stylized in all caps) is a 2024 American independent black comedy film written and directed by Maxwell Nalevansky and Carl Fry, produced by With Pleasure Cinemagroup, and distributed by Yellow Veil Pictures. The film is set in the fictional town of Pfresno, Texas in the year 2007 and follows Raphael, who, after being arrested by an overzealous police officer, gets caught up in a chaotic world of drug kingpins, ecoterrorists, mallrats, and rappers. The film blends gross-out humor with social commentary, highlighting the disorder of small-town life and youth counterculture in 2000s Texas. The film received the bronze audience award for Best International Feature at the 2024 Fantasia Film Festival. Rats! was released in select theaters by Yellow Veil Pictures on February 28, 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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