Mulberry Street DVD Review
Mulberry Street follows the close knit tenants of a small New York apartment building as they endure an outbreak on New York’s Manhattan Island. A single father awaiting his daughter’s arrival home from the army prepares a small welcome home party with his neighbor as he and the rest of the tenants begin to see the strange effects of this outbreak. The outbreak begins with reports of rat attacks that stream in from all over the city. Soon the victims of the attacks exhibit odd behavior that accumulates into a thirst for blood. The tenants on Mulberry Street hole up in their apartments and try to help one another survive the night against the blood thirsty, rat infected people.
Mulberry Street is not actually a zombie movie, but from any loose description, it could be mistaken for one readily. The infected slowly turn into rat people, but their behavior and motivation are similar enough to the infection zombies of movies like 28 Days Later, that I believe that fans of the zombie genre could easily enjoy this movie.
Mulberry Street doesn’t break any new ground being that it’s so close to a zombie movie, but as a survival/suspense type horror movie it does very well. The gore was excellent and the pacing of the story was exceptional. The story was intriguing and kept me interested throughout the whole movie.
The special effects make-up was effective, but sometimes the man behind the curtain was visible. The zombies, as I said, aren’t zombies but rat people, but look good just the same. The blood and gore are very well done, but were likely produced on a small, but effective budget.
Mulberry Street contains well written characters, an evenly paced story and good special effects. Although not technically a zombie movie, I think fans of the genre will enjoy it the most. Pick it up, if you get the chance.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST ZOMBIEISH MOVIES IVE SEEN IN A WHILE. NO THEY DIDNT REALLY BREAK GROUND AND ITS SIMILAR TO BLACKSHEEP IN A WAY BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY WELL DONE. THE WRITING WAS GREAT THE ACTING WAS GREAT , THIS WAS REALLY A GREAT MOVIE FOR HAVING A SMall budget. there wasnt enough gore though. is it me or is the daughter hot even with the facial scar? anyway i would give it two decomposed thumbs up.
good review!
So far I’ve seen half of the Afterdark Horrorfest 2007 lineup, and this was the only one I liked thus far. Another thing of note to mention is that the acting in Mulberry Street is really organic and fits the script well. It does take a while to kick in the gore (which isn’t all overt and overdone) but it’s time well spent and pays off at the film’s climax. I’d love a bunch more rat-people movies as long as they’re the same quality as this one.