RAT!
Directed by Neal Suresh Mulani
Produced by Lottie Abrahams & Neal Suresh Mulani
United States | English | 17' | Horror, Comedy
When a disgruntled music journalist accuses a global pop star of queerbaiting, the singer’s devoted fans descend on his remote cabin to seek retribution.
Director Neal Suresh Mulani’s RAT! is a singular and thrilling dive into the perils of internet culture, serious as the grave and silly as a pop song. RAT! subverts and celebrates horror tropes as our hero spirals through a doxxing from the pop stans from hell, but also challenges us to face a more insidious threat: our instinct to trivialize the experience. “The internet isn’t real, but you are,” is chilling consolation when online, you’re not really real to anyone.
-Anna K. Long, Associate Programmer