Jody Gilbert

A socially maladjusted boy uses his bizarre ability to communicate with rats to exact violent revenge against his cruel tormentors.

By 1949, Fritz Lang had been exiled to “poverty row”. Though stuck with a small budget and no stars, the noir master used the creative freedom to make one of the eeriest, most downright Lynchian thrillers of his storied career. Long buried, it’s been revived with a shot at getting its due.