The Mutation

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Had to be the worst,most ill-thought out,terrible scene in the history of b movies. A restaurant FULL of patrons QUIETLY watches giant five nights at Freddy's reject kill two waitresses --and WAIT THEIR TURN TO BE KILLED!! One of our lead detectives is there,at his anniversary dinner--with his gun in a locked briefcase,which he fumbles to retrieve while his wife angrily screams at him about bringing a gun on their anniversary rat massacre dinner. Freaking garbage. Best character goes to kick ass waitress number two,who probably had the best fight scene of the whole movie. She was not going down without a tussle!!!

Had to be the worst,most I'll thought out,terrible scene in the history of b movies. A restaurant FULL of patrons QUIETLY watches giant five nights at Freddy's reject kill two waitresses --and WAIT THEIR TURN TO BE KILLED!! One of our lead detectives is there,at his anniversary dinner--with his gun in a locked briefcase,which he fumbles to retrieve while his wife angriy screams at him about bringing a gun on their anniversary rat massacre dinner. Freaking garbage. Best character goes to kick ass waitress number two,who probably had the best fight scene of the whole movie. She was not going down without a tussle!!!

A ferocious mutated humanoid rat-man beast (Derek Nelson in a funky hairy suit) goes on a murderous spree in the wake of escaping from a lab. Writer/director Scott Jeffrey relates the enjoyably inane and absurd story at a brisk pace, treats the gloriously ludicrous premise with jaw-dropping seriousness, stages the attack scenes with grisly gusto, and delivers a generous serving of bloody gore. Moreover, the game no-name cast play it admirably straight: Ricardo Freitas as eager zoologist Allen Marsh, Amanda-Jade Tyler as grieving widow Dr. Linda Rowe, Abi Casson Thompson as the sweet Julie Smith, Jamie Robertson as hard-nosed copper Norton, and Andrew Rolfe as the jittery Sergeant McKenna. Among the definite campy highlights are a wild restaurant massacre sequence and a simply hysterical climax with an obvious CGI giant rodent running amuck. A total schlocky hoot.

Yea yea, I know. Based on the poster I knew what I was getting into, but I was actually hoping for a cheesier creature feature. But what I got was just a slow, boring but ok acted movie.

A giant mutant rat kills Peter Lowe (Nick Danan), its keeper, and escapes to the country side to kill again. The police investigate and call in zoologist Alan Marsh (Ricardo Freitas) to help. He gets close to the widow Linda Rowe (Amanda-Jade Tyler) who pronounces her name as "Linder" and "McKenna" as McKenner. The mutant rat is a man in a rat costume, something that could pass for a Yeti or werewolf in a 1960''s film. I kept waiting for a clever line, but it never happened. I was wondering if they meant to say that the "FBI" was called in. It is a the British film. Guide: f-word. No sex or nudity.

Didn't anyone catch the line " I knew my husband was working with generics"...It's was suppose to be "genetics"...lol. And nobody caught that ? Too funny. Just a silly movie. Maybe might have been OK on a hit of acid.

Granted, when I sat down to watch the 2021 horror movie titled "The Mutation" from writer and director Scott Jeffrey, I must admit that the movie had that particular traditional and classic 1980s horror feel to it. And that was the biggest reason for me sitting down to watch it, well, that and the fact that it was a horror movie that I hadn't already seen. Well, sadly, the movie's cover was actually the best thing about the ordeal that is "The Mutation". I kid you not. Yeah, the storyline here is pretty straight forward, so at least Scott Jeffrey did manage to pull that off. But at the same time, the storyline was so predictable and generic that the movie quickly ran out of fuel and became a drag to sit through. So you are not finding yourself in for a rollercoaster of a horror movie if you opt to sit down to watch "The Mutation". The acting in the movie was fair enough. Sure, you are not sitting down to watch a grand thespian performance of Shakespearian level. But on the other hand, there are far worse B-movie performances in the horror genre. So the actors and actresses that took a part in "The Mutation" did the best with the material at hand, or so I would like to think. Visually then "The Mutation" was somewhat of a swing and a miss. Sure, the creature concept was interesting enough, and the suit actually did look quite alright. But it was just that; a suit. And it was painstakingly obvious exactly just that; a man in a creature suit. Especially the non-articulate face, that was a buzz-killer. I am sure that there is an audience out there for a low budget horror movie such as "The Mutation", I just wasn't particularly much a member of that audience. My rating of "The Mutation" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

I was being entertained for the most part watching this even though it had plot holes you could drive a truck through. Yeah the rat was a guy in a furry suit, that was okay. A so called scientists that didn't even think of getting a rabies shot after being gored by a giant rat.... I could live with that. A police captain staring like a deer in caught in headlights as a hostess uses wine bottle, trays, and chairs to defend herself.....I guess that could happen. What really got my goat was the terrible CGI at the end. I was all set to give this a higher rating, but could only give it a two, and only happened because I allowed myself to forgive the movies other obvious flaws. Watch it at the end of a busy day, and hopefully you'll nod off before the ending.

I'm lost for words, I settled in for what I thought was a by the book Crap Creature film, instead I sat with glazed eyes not knowing whether to laugh, cry or stab myself to death with a tomato!. Nothing makes any sense at all, no-one does anything remotely plausible, the Police make Chief Wiggum look like Columbo and the creature(which is passable, even though it's never explained why it has arms and legs), goes through the whole film trying to be a werewolf, then suddenly grows to the size of a house at the end,,,,then explodes!!, sorry what!!. I feel bad marking it so low because someone has really tried in some areas, but the direction given to the cast and the tsunami of diarrhoea that comes out of their mouths is by far the most horrific part of the whole film. All in all a missed opportunity.