Living In Peril is about Walter Woods, an architect, who travels to Los Angeles to design a house for a client. After arriving in the city, strange things start to happen. First Walter's blue prints are ruined by what he thinks is rat urine. Then a man breaks into his apartment and breaks his toe. Two days later he wakes up to find his neighbor, a prostitute, dead in his bed. Eventually, he finds out that the person harassing him is his wife's psychotic ex-husband.

Animal Action:

One night Walter wakes up to find rats crawling all over his bed. The next day the landlord is seen carrying a box around as he collects the rats. This scene was shot in cuts. The trainer placed the rats on the bed and the actor took great care when getting out of the bed so as not to harm any of the rats. Later, rats were placed in a box for the establishing shot of the landlord catching the rodents. A fake rat was used when the landlord is seen sweeping a rat into the bucket.