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I love Creature Features if they are done right, and The Mutation is no dirty rat. Instead, it is about a killer rat. Not your ordinary killer rat. It is a 6′ killer rat, and he shows no mercy to his victims as he claws them to death. So I guess he is a dirty rat, but not in a James Cagney sort of way. Go look up James Cagney. I’ll wait.
Back to the movie. The Mutation starts out with the rat (Derek Nelson), who is a failed experiment, killing his creator. Sargent McKenna (Andrew Rolfe) is investigating the case with Zoologist Allen Marsh (Ricardo Freitas), and the first person they talk to is the victim’s wife. Dr. Linda Rowe (Amanda-Jade Tyler) does not know who, or in this case what, killed her husband. And neither does anyone else. However, they know it was not human.
Linda finds some papers in her late husband’s lab, and she calls Allen to tell him about it. Meanwhile, Allen has his suspicions of what is going on, so he runs some tests on the fur he found on Linda’s clothes. Together they come to the conclusion that there is a giant rodent terrorizing the city.
However, no one believes them, nor will they do anything to stop it. That is until the body count starts adding up, and by then, it is too late. Dozens are dead. Now that the rat has a taste for blood, the Mutation will mutilate everything in his path.
Linda and Allen are going to do everything they can to stop the murdering creature. But is there a way to do it? Especially when he continues to grow and is the size of a truck. Now, the beast doesn’t have to decapitate his prey; he can just swallow them whole. How much bigger can he get? And how many people can eat before he is full? You will have to rent or buy the movie that is out now on Home Video, DVD, and OnDemand to find out. And you are going to want to find out.
The Mutation might be a lower budget movie, but you would never know by watching it. Scott Jeffrey did a brilliant job directing it, and his script plays out perfectly. The cinematography is that of an expensive film. The acting is believable. And the best part is the evil rat. He is totally f*cked up, but not in a sick way like most of today’s horror movies. His kills are bloody, but they are not torture porn bloody. Some of them are a little comical as they were in Slasher Films of the ’80s.
That is the best way to describe The Mutation. It is a throwback to the ’80s with a modern-day feel. Think of the werewolf movies from that era that didn’t rely heavily on CGI like they do today.
If you are a fan of Creature Features and ’80s Slasher Films, then you are going to eat The Mutation up like he eats humans.
The Mutation is distributed by Uncork’d Entertainment.
