Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother and his father's old partner, Frank. Soon it becomes clear that the brood of rodents is ready and willing to exact a vicious, deadly revenge on anyone who dares to bully their sensitive new master.
This movie contains 19 potentially triggering events.
Willard's mother doesn't physically abuse him but is very controlling and smothering and is constantly wanting to know what he's doing and following him/intruding on his privacy.
A cat is chased by rats and bitten by one, then falls into a swarm of rats and disappears under it. The scene stops there and doesn't show the cat's death in any graphic detail.