Admit It: Outdoor Cinema Sucks

For reasons including but not limited to large vermin:

If you’re coming to this outside cinema, bring a blanket, but leave the popcorn, wine and cheese at home.

That’s because a roving army of hungry rats has been prowling Bay Ridge’s Narrows Botanical Gardens, threatening to shut down the annual movies in the park.

“These rats are so brazen, it can be a nightmare,” said Joan Regan, who first organized the Outdoor Cinema eight years ago.

“The sun goes down and the rats get hungry for food and come bother our show,” said Regan.

It wouldn’t be the first time the four-legged fiends stole the show.

Two years ago, the vermin problem was so bad, organizers had to cancel a sundown showing of “War of the Worlds” after the raging rats launched their own invasion.

“As soon as the movie started, droves of rats poured on to the field. You could see them on the screen and one of them even ran over the foot of the woman sitting next to me,” said Regan, who said she made the unfortunate mistake of spreading out some cheese and wine on her picnic blanket.