Night of the Rat, The2015

Director
David R. Losada

Acters

Miriam Cabeza (Sandra)
Unai García (Jorge)
Mikel Martinez (Álvaro)
Alfonso Torregrosa (Juan Luís)
Luís Pozo (Padre)
Arantxa Moñux (Abuela)

Sometimes the middle of the road becomes the beginning of an utterly different story and you never arrive to your intended destination.
Jorge, a married man, and Sandra, his colleague and mistress, are on the road to a remote work meeting when they stop to refuel at an eerily quiet gas station. As George enters the convenience store, he barely notices the corpse on the floor before an unseen sniper sends a bullet through the shop’s window. Trapped and wounded with no means of escape, he helplessly watches from his windowed cage as his lover and various passers-by are targeted. Is this man’s fate mere bad luck or does he know his would-be assassin?
“A neat exercise in extracting maximum value from minimal funds, a single location and (for the most part) just one actor, ’Night of the Rat’ is a terse suspenser. First-time feature helmer David R. Losada demonstrates admirable control over the possibilities of a simple scenario. (The film) should do well at genre fests, and in boosting its primary collaborators to major-studio attention.” – Variety
“An exercise in impecable film-making and cinephilia, and an invitation to enjoy some of the key elements of what makes a suspense in ’the seventh art’.” – Cinemaldito.com
“’The Night of the Rat’ is a film that fulfills its objective to offer tense thriller with a dry and anguished atmosphere that works precisely because of the small things in which it takes risks, turning out to be entirely brave film. It leaves a good impression, and create a debate around the film, and especially its brilliant ending.” – Cine Espanol