I put Jim Mickle's most recent film, "Cold In July", on my personal 10-Best list of 2014. With my viewing of "Mulberry Street", I've now seen the bookends of his directing career to this point.
I really wanted to watch "Mulberry Street" because I was expecting a claustrophobic, dirty tale of rats sneaking up on a few people in an apartment building. I was thinking it would be along the lines of Stephen King's "Graveyard Shift", but hopefully better than that mess. With fingers crossed, I found that I got a claustrophobic tale of dirty rats turning the people of New York into zombie rats that overrun Manhattan. Surprisingly, it turned into an apocalyptic story on a grander scale.
There really isn't an explanation given for the disease outbreak and it wasn't wrapped up at the end, either. The conclusion got a bit corny, but the remarkable thing was being drawn into the story despite some pretty rough acting by everyone but the likable Nick Damici. I noticed that Damici and Mickle wrote the story together which is very cool.
If you hate shaky cam, it was all over this. After all, the mid-2000's were prime time for shaking the camera around. It was a bit disorienting at times, but I did enjoy the exaggerated fast movements of the rat people.
This turned out to be a pretty appropriate thing to watch this Halloween season and it didn't hurt that it was a good movie, either.
Review by whitsbrainVIP 5BlockedParent2022-01-15T17:21:43Z
I put Jim Mickle's most recent film, "Cold In July", on my personal 10-Best list of 2014. With my viewing of "Mulberry Street", I've now seen the bookends of his directing career to this point.
I really wanted to watch "Mulberry Street" because I was expecting a claustrophobic, dirty tale of rats sneaking up on a few people in an apartment building. I was thinking it would be along the lines of Stephen King's "Graveyard Shift", but hopefully better than that mess. With fingers crossed, I found that I got a claustrophobic tale of dirty rats turning the people of New York into zombie rats that overrun Manhattan. Surprisingly, it turned into an apocalyptic story on a grander scale.
There really isn't an explanation given for the disease outbreak and it wasn't wrapped up at the end, either. The conclusion got a bit corny, but the remarkable thing was being drawn into the story despite some pretty rough acting by everyone but the likable Nick Damici. I noticed that Damici and Mickle wrote the story together which is very cool.
If you hate shaky cam, it was all over this. After all, the mid-2000's were prime time for shaking the camera around. It was a bit disorienting at times, but I did enjoy the exaggerated fast movements of the rat people.
This turned out to be a pretty appropriate thing to watch this Halloween season and it didn't hurt that it was a good movie, either.