★ 4 / 10
High Expectations..
raoulcortereal
This movie came highly recommended by a colleague at work. Hearing someone say that they saw a cool horror movie that they really enjoyed, you cannot help…
This movie came highly recommended by a colleague at work. Hearing someone say that they saw a cool horror movie that they really enjoyed, you cannot help yourself but follow their advice to check it out. Thus, we started watching this movie hoping it would deliver, yet when the closing title appeared, it came with a sense of disappointment. Maybe our high expectations ruined it, or maybe it was all the rat noises thrown in to scare people... Rat noises, either with or without a bit scary rat close up, especially if you keep repeating it over and over and over, become tiresome to hear after a while. Why rats you wonder? Because its a twist from the normal zombie movies, it involves rats as the origin of all the problems. It does not explain why, maybe its because rats are icky and scary, and they kill people and such. The why or how are not important, that's left for you to decide... moving on.The actors do a good job and the the characters are nicely played, you kind of feel for them and for what you know is coming, and its interesting to watch their lives unfold with the warning signs increasing in the background (TV reports, etc).First half of the movie is quite uneventful, and it slowly picks up the pace, with a scare or two thrown in to to keep us going, or awake, depending on what time of the day it is. Until finally, and as usual with a zombie horror flick, chaos breaks loose and it has some good moments and scares. But in the end it raised more questions than it it could or wanted to answer... and I left feeling tired instead of entertained.Don't watch this with any expectations whatsoever...
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★ 6 / 10
Ravenous Rat-Like Zombies
Uriah43
Diseased rats infected with some type of virus are attacking people in New York City causing the residents to transform into ravenous rat-like zombies. In one…
Diseased rats infected with some type of virus are attacking people in New York City causing the residents to transform into ravenous rat-like zombies. In one particular apartment complex on Mulberry Street the residents take up a defensive posture hoping to survive long enough for help to arrive. "Clutch" (Nick Damici) is a former boxer who essentially tries to lead in this endeavor. His daughter, "Casey" (Kim Blair) is a wounded combat veteran of Iraq who has just gotten out of the hospital and is trying to make her way to him through the streets of New York. "Kay" (Bo Corre) is a waitress at a nearby bar who lives up the stairs and is attracted to Clutch. Likewise, there were other characters with similar life stories which the director (Jim Mickle) did a pretty good job of setting up as well. So much so that I was a little disappointed with the ending. But since I don't want to spoil the film by saying which characters live and which ones do not, I won't go any further. What I will say though is that this movie has some very fast action which made it a bit difficult to fully absorb at some points. Additionally, zombie purists may not consider this film to be a "zombie" movie in that it follows more along the lines of "28 Days Later" than the standard zombie formula. But even so, I thought this was a pretty good movie all the same and I recommend it for those who enjoy a film of this type.
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5.5/10
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