Rat sound effects

Three thin, upward-flicking squeaks with hard little attacks and no tail behind them. The version most edits want, because the pitch alone tells an audience the animal is small and very close.

Rapid dry clicking made by the incisors rather than the throat. It reads as agitation without a squeak, which matters when a squeak would tip the scene into comedy.

Dozens of claw tips skittering across hard wood, speeding up and stopping dead. This is the take that puts something alive behind a wall with no animal on camera.

A steady rasping bite that keeps returning at the same pace. Long enough to sit under a whole scene, and unmistakable the second a listener works out what it is.

One strained shriek with the whole throat behind it. Horror leans on this hard, and a single placement is usually all a scene can absorb before it turns silly.

Dry paper and shredded bedding shifting as the animal turns over. There is no vocal in it at all, which is precisely why it reads as unstaged.