The Rats may refer to: The Rats (American band), a garage punk band from Portland, Oregon The Rats (British band), a rock band from Hull, England The Rats (2002 film), a television film The Rats (novel), a horror novel by James Herbert The Rats (video game), a text adventure survival game based on the novel Deadly Eyes, a Canadian film adaptation (released as The Rats in the United Kingdom) The Rats, the fictional backing group of Curt Wild in Velvet Goldmine The Rats, the 2009 revival of the Boomtown Rats A short story in the Argentine anthology film Wild Tales (film) The Rats (play), a five-act stage drama by Nobel laureate Gerhart Hauptmann See also The Rat (disambiguation) Rat (disambiguation) Las ratas (disambiguation)