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Escape the Everyday Rat Race and Lose Yourself On Mulberry Street

Written by Jonathan Jacobs

I was never one to truly call myself a horror fan, but recently I find myself drawn to films with a tinge of terror. As I delve deeper into this genre, I am finding that for my personal taste, a really great horror film is a really rare find. With Halloween fast approaching, I decided to offer up a review of a film that might be good to enjoy at a party celebrating all Hallow's eve. Mulberry Street was recommended to me by a fellow movie geek and so I decided to give it a whirl.

The written word description on the back of the box seemed generic enough, but I am always willing to give films a chance. I thrive on the feeling of not knowing what to expect, I pressed play on my DVD remote control. Two hours later I was wholly unimpressed. I feel a need to quote a good friend of mine with whom I had the pleasure of watching this film. She said, "the advertisement on the box said a horror film that breaks the mold, but all I got out of this situation was MOLD [mildew]".

Mulberry Street takes place on the island of Manhattan and opens onto scenes of people discussing the fact that a new company has taken ownership of their small apartment complex and may evict everyone. The plan is apparently to build a new set of luxury condominiums somewhere in the general vicinity. Building superintendent Clutch (Nick Damici) works to keep things and tenants in order as the building rapidly deteriorates. All the while, he anxiously awaits the arrival of his young daughter Casey (Kim Blair) who is on a return trip home after serving her country in Iraq. While working on some routine maintenance, Clutch gets bitten by a sewer rat that just happens to be infected with some crazy virus. Soon others start to receive bits and subsequently begin to "morph" into rat like creatures hell bent on feeding on human flesh. It is the task of the uninfected to somehow escape certain doom and stay far away from situations that might cause them to get bitten.

This movie was "meh" to the third power. I wasn’t/am not a fan. It went wrong for me in a lot of ways and in a lot of places. Where do I begin? First, I dislike the fact that the writers gave me very little to work with. From beginning to end, I knew almost nothing about any of the characters aside from the fact that they existed. Casey had some pretty severe scarring on her face (we, as viewers, are make to assume it had something to do with her time served in Iraq?), but were never given any inclination as to exactly what went down. We never know much about her or her father. With no knowledge/back story about the main characters, you can imagine the amount of info we’re given about the supporting cast. Maybe it’s just me, but I need a little something more or I have hard time sincerely investing myself in the film.

Another annoyance that reared its ugly head here and has in so many other films that I have viewed has to do with sideline stories. Not much irritates me more than when a film introduces what at first seems to be the beginning of an interesting off shoot and then refuses to even attempt to follow through. Throughout this film we are given glimpses into a possible budding relationship between Clutch and tenant/bartender Kay (Bo Corre). It’s mentioned often from several different sources and at one point it looks as though they could get wrapped up together in some sort of romantic interlude, but the story line never follows through. Also, don’t even get me started on how this film ends. Hints and allegations without proper resolution do little more than to serve as a tease for me as a viewer and takes away from the integrity of the whole operation.

The special effects/makeup department did do a decent job on the "rat people". In some of the close up attack scenes, the visuals were very impressive, but to see a simple snap shot of an infected reminded me of some of the artwork pictured on the covers of "Weekly World News".

Overall the film wasn’t horrid, but true horror fans might feel it is mundane. Some of the scenes of attack might temporarily quench your thirst for gore (if you have one?!!?), but those scenes are basically few and far between. I left wanting more and possibly that’s what film makers were going for, but to me it just wasn’t enough. I would like to hear from others about their thoughts on this film, so therefore, I am suggesting you view it and let me know.