The Rats

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