Carl Fry,
co-director,
"Rats!"
Directed by Carl Fry (right) and Maxwell Nalevansky, the Pflugerville-shot dark and absurd comedy Rats! finds the unremarkable life of a student artist upended by law enforcement officers, drug dealers, nuclear arms brokers, and roommate squatters. Oh, and a serial killer with a penchant for chopping off the hands of their victims. Raphael (Luke Wilcox) is sentenced to community service after pleading guilty to tagging a “landmark” telephone booth. When Raphael is sent to live with his drug-dealing cousin Matteo (Darius Autry), vengeful police Officer Williams (Danielle Evon Ploeger) recruits Raphael to inform on Matteo. Williams wants nothing more to bust Matteo after years of trying to put him behind bars. But Raphael quickly gets sidetracked by all the strange goings-on in his fictional Texas hometown of Pfresno that put him in danger. Set in 2007 Rats! also features a soundtrack of emo and meth and includes as well as the rap parody track “I Love Selling Crack (I’m Bringing Crack Back)” by Ka5sh & Yung Skrrt ft. Lil B. Rats! opened Feb. 28 at the Alamo South Lamar, with filmmaker post-screening Q&As at 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. March 1. Rats! will be available for digital and on-demand viewing beginning on March 11. The Pflugerville-based Carl Fry co-directed Rats! with the Brooklyn-based screenwriter Maxwell Nalevansky. Fry and Nalevansky previously collaborated on the 2020 short film With Pleasure. Fry also worked as a second assistant director on Lousy Carter and Apartment 413. Aired: Feb. 12, 2025. Web sites: https://yellowveilpictures.com/rats/ https://www.facebook.com/carl.fry.14 |
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