Mutants

I’m not really thrilled about this film (I expected a bit more), but it’s still a pretty good (not-quite) zombie flick. During the first fifteen minutes, however, it didn’t look like that; I won’t lie, at the beginning I was shocked at how awful this film, which I had been looking forward to for several months, looked. Unreasonably frantic cinematography, music (or rather, noises) that almost drove me insane, characters that even a humanitarian would want to kill… there was a lot that bothered me. But those things eventually go away (or I got used to them, I’m a flexible person :D) and are followed by a very interesting atmosphere (a post-apocalyptic French winter), some nastiness here and there and, especially, perfect looking mutants. In the end I had a lot of fun, but there’s plenty that prevents the highest rating: a pretty ordinary story (but with a nice core premise), unlikeable characters (with one exception) and an excessively frantic camera. That said, Mutants is not a taint on the French horror new wave. (18/11/2009)

I finally caught up with the latest from the French New Wave, which again boasts excellent gore and decent mutants, as that's also all there is to praise here. The cinematography, the story, the characters and everything else are really good. 50% (15/06/2014)