The Mutation

I'm glad they made the rat look realistic and didn't just dress up some guy in a rat suit.

We all know uncork'd' feature output is more or less synonymous with VOD stinkers, but I have seldom seen one as charming, in spite of its utter ineptitude, than The Mutation.

A research scientist has altered a lab rats genom (don't do it kids!) creating what can only be discribed as a poor man's lycanthrope, who, perhaps understandingly, starts gnawing on anything with a pulse.

For some reason the people responsible for this trainwreck chose to set this "story" in America but very obviously shot it in the UK. Something you'll no doubt noticed when hearing the dilettante that act as stand in for actual actors, trying (and failing spectacularly) to read their lines. Seriously, it sounds like they've been equipped with gagballs, so much so that some can't even pronounce their own characters names.

So the film is objectively speaking pure garbage but there is a certain fuzzy (pun intended) warm likable quality to the incompetence on display.

Plus the Wererat or ratwolf if you will, is pretty fun.

With a few friends and a lot of beer, I could see this being a winner, for all the wrong reasons.

I sometimes wonder who in their right mind are tossing out high ratings!? It can only be family and friends of the artists and the production team.

Please save your time. This movie is so bad it's not even worse going into detail.

I always give these low budget movies a try, 20 minutes in I had to turn it off. Filmed in the UK, pretending to be in the USA. Terrible American accents and one American police car. Not to mention the awful acting, terrible sets etc etc.

I strongly believe if I had two mobile phones and a decent phone holder I could make a better movie.

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.