Rats / Крысы

2014 | Fiction | 81 min. | United States

The Russian government laughs at Perryman and suggests psychiatric treatment until the city of Moscow witnesses an unexplained phenomenon. Russian high government officials mutate into giants human-rats in the matter of days. Enraged by fear and chaos, the Russian President’s cabinet orders Perryman’s capture dead or alive, with $20 million reward for his head. Alone, in Russia, Perryman is hiding from the authorities as an exile. With a help of his new Russian friends Anna and Polina, he manages to stay alive and to convert more people in the Godly purpose of his mission. Threatened, hunted and hated, Perryman finds himself in love with young Polina, who, just like a guardian angel, miraculously saves him from trouble and public humiliation. Just like all other saints and God’s messengers, Perryman’s fate meets the brutality and cruelty of heartless human nature. Naïve and corrupted Russians hope to destroy Perryman in order to reverse the rat mutation process. Eventually, cornered by angry mobs of human-rats and their relatives, Perryman is killed in front of Polina’s eyes. To the disappointment for all the corrupt people around the world, his death doesn’t provide the cure for the rat disease. The whole world’s corrupted society now faces the greatest punishment in history, everyone turns into RATS!

Director: Vladimir Uglichin

Producer: Gray Frederickson

Сast: Casper Van Dien, Victoria Nalder, Linda Bella, Lidiya Korotko, Catherine Oxenberg, Alexander Khachatryan, Peter Zhmutski and Ilya Slovesnik