RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR
Dir. Bruno Mattei, 1984
Italy/France. 96 mins.
In Italian with English subtitles.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5 – 10 PM
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 – 7:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 – MIDNIGHT

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a group of bikers are trapped underground searching for any means of sustenance when they stumble upon a mysterious abandoned village. While finding food and shelter, the human wastoids also unearth more insidious company…hordes of mutated, bloodthirsty rats with a taste for human flesh intent on ripping them to shreds.

From Italian schlock master Bruno Mattei (Zombi 3, Night Killer), Rats Night of Terror brings a level of surprising deference to it’s unique Mad Max meets Phase IV by setup that many genre films from the era lack. Shot by Franco Delli Colli (camera assistant on The Leopard!) and utilizing sets from Once Upon a Time in America, RNOT creates a dreamy, enveloping, and uniquely claustrophobic world that shares just as much DNA with Rod Serling as it does with Lucio Fulci, and features an ending that with leave you SCRATCHING your head in bewilderment.