Willard

When the cat's away, the rats will play.

A dark psychological thriller about a lonely, abused man who forms a twisted bond with rats and uses them as instruments of violent revenge against his tormentors.

Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother and his father's old partner, Frank. Soon it becomes clear that the brood of rodents is ready and willing to exact a vicious, deadly revenge on anyone who dares to bully their sensitive new master.