Directed by Stephen Roach and written by Robert Howgate, Rise of the Rats stars Grace Gallagher as Kayla, a rebellious young woman who returns to her childhood town. There she finds a horrific rat infestation controlled by a figure known as The Rat Man who may have a connection to her family.
Mark Collier, Tania Staite, Jamie Nowski, Shayli Reagan, Darren Le Fevre and Adrian Annis also star.
A release date has yet to be announced but you can check out the trailer and posters below.
The official synopsis reads:
Kayla Thornhill, a rebellious young punk, travels with her estranged father, Jack, to Ditchfield, the town where he grew up. What begins as an uneasy return home quickly turns sinister as Kayla discovers that Ditchfield is suffering from a relentless rat infestation — and that something far more disturbing lies beneath the surface.Digging into the town’s past, Kayla uncovers whispers of a brutal act of collective violence committed decades earlier, a secret the residents have spent years trying to bury.From that buried history emerges the Rat Man, a grotesque embodiment of the town’s guilt, violence and unresolved trauma. As he unleashes hordes of bloodthirsty rats and begins exacting revenge, the death toll rises and Ditchfield descends into chaos.Caught in the middle, Kayla is forced to confront the truth about her father’s connection to the town’s darkest secret — and the consequences of a past that refuses to stay buried.
