Mulberry Street (2007) 5/10

So Mulberry Street is one of the "8 Films To Die For" and is the darling of the group. There's been alot of buzz about how "innovative" the film is and I have to disagree.

Mulberry Street takes place in New York and a plague carried by rats infests the city. The bite from the rat turns its victim into a huge human rat zombie thing. So then you have rat zombie things running around attacking people. This is an obvious attempt at commenting on 9/11 and the future threats of terrorism but I personally don't think rat people is all that new or "innovative."

What it boils down to is zombies that like 28 days later zombies, but look like rats. Is that really all that it takes to impress horror fans now? How about I make a movie about pigeon zombies t turning people into giant pigeon zombies. Would that then be "innovative." The film takes forever to get going as well. I guess we were supposed to be getting to know the various characters and learning to love them so that when they die, we'll actually care. Well i didn't. I was just sitting waiting for the conflict to start, and about 35-minutes into the film I finally got what i wanted...sort of. The rat zombie action is all that shaky camera stuff that supposed to seem "edgy" and "realistic" but in this film just ends up being frustrating as I couldn't see what the hell was going on. After all the buzz I have to admit I'm very disappointed by this one. Perhaps my expectations were set too high but if this is best the 8 films could muster this year then I'm not looking forward to the rest.

Bottom line: the film has well developed characters and a weak conflict and crappy shaky camera garbage. The film is not innovative or unique.

Gore - medium

Overall - 5/10