Morgan Spurlock’s RATS Documentary Screens Midnights at The Tivoli Sept 23-24th

Morgan Spurlock’s RATS screens midnights in St. Louis Friday and Saturday September 23rd and 24th at Landmark’s The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar Blvd). Tickets are $8.

Inspired by Robert Sullivan’s New York Times bestselling book, the Discovery Documentary Film RATS goes deep beneath the surface to explore the lives of man’s greatest parasite. Oscar-nominated director Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) unveils a new form of documentary horror storytelling, journeying around the world to bring viewers face to face with rats while delving into our complicated relationship with these creepy creatures.

Taking us into the Rattus nests in ways never before captured on film, RATS dives deep into New York City’s parks, subway tunnels and sewers; venture to rice paddies in Cambodia and Vietnam where rats are caught and sold as food; cross worldly streets in India paroled by the revered Night Rat Killers; journey to the English countryside where packs of terriers kill hundreds of rats per day; and look inside a New Orleans lab, where scientists are studying how flooding and abandoned neighborhoods are making rats more invasive than ever.

Landmark Theatres and Submarine Deluxe are teaming to release Morgan Spurlock’s new feature documentary RATS in 10 markets nationwide in midnight screenings September 23-24 exclusively at Landmark venues. The innovative theatrical play comes ahead of the documentary’s TV bow October 22 on Discovery Channel. The pic, described as a modern-day horror film, has its world premiere tonight at the Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness section.

In the documentary based on Robert Sullivan’s bestselling book, Spurlock and his team travel around the world to bring viewers face to face with rats while delving into humans’ complicated relationship with the creepy creatures. The plan is to show it at Landmark cinemas in Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and St. Louis.

“I am so proud of this genre-bending movie and am very excited that people will get to experience all its horror doc theatrical glory in Landmark Cinemas,” said Spurlock, whose Warrior Poets produced the film with Discovery, Dakota Group Ltd and Submarine Deluxe. “Seeing this on the big screen will give you even bigger nightmares.”

Spurlock co-wrote and pic and produced with Jeremy Chilnick. David Koh, Josh Braun, Dan Braun and Stanley Buchthal executive produced.