Wednesday, January 2, 2013

First for 2013

Well, it has been a while since I posted but hopefully that will change in 2013. Happy New Year!




MULBERRY STREET-2006-A virus carried by rats turns residents of NYC's Lower East Side into blood drinking, flesh craving zombie rat people in this horror film that uses a lot of character development to cover up the fact it's just another 28 DAYS LATER rip-off with very jerky camera effects. The zombies are fairly grotesque but not very powerful as a bar owner beats a few of them up with a frying pan. The lead character is an ex-boxer named Clutch (Nick Damici) who takes out a few zombies with punches. Meanwhile his soldier-daughter (Kim Blair) wanders the city trying to unite with her dad. Once again the ending seems to say it might have been caused by our evil government. Writer/director Jim Mickle does a competent job handily the cast and gore but it's too dark and frenetic.

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1 comment:

The Bloody Pit of Horror said...

I thought this was better than usual and appreciated the attempts at (gasp!) characterization. Nice change of pace compared to other recent genre films IMO. It's definitely not without problems. The shakycam was awful!

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