A deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to devolve into blood-thirsty rat creatures. Six recently evicted tenants must survive the night and protect their downtown apartment building as the city quickly spirals out of control.
OK, I know it's sort of a corny premise... people getting bitten by rats and turning into rat-like creatures or "wererats", but somehow that never really comes to the forefront in the movie. It's actually surprisingly entertaining.
Keep in mind it's an indie film without a big budget or big name actors, so don't be expecting either, but it works well really with what it's got. It does start out a bit slow and it almost lost me in the first 40 minutes or so, but then the volume gets cranked up pretty good and it's a whole lot of fun for the last half of them movie.
Maybe the whole apocalyptic/zombie/mutant thing has been done to death lately, but this isn't really as much about that as it is really just these few people in the one apartment complex. They're not all Dawson's Creek/O.C. looking people either like are normally in the big budget horror films, but seem like real people and are easy to relate to. Their life situations are convincing.
I will add I really wasn't crazy about the ending though.
But for a low budget film you really could do a lot worse than this fun flick.
6/10
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