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

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.

This movie is terrible in every way possible. Terrible stroryline, acting, producing, sounds, lights. Get out of the kitchen if you can't cook.

I just can't believe they still make movies this bad. Everything about it is laughably bad, the acting, the sets and particularly the 'creature'. Ignore the 10/10 ratings that are obviously posted by those involved with this woeful effort of a movie. You have been warned, watch at your peril.

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 can't believe how weak the content, dialogue and poor story.

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.

You're watching something called Mutation. Did you expect great cinema? I expected a bad monster movie and that's exactly what I got. It can be hard for me to find monster movies I haven't seen before, so I was pretty excited to find this. The camera work was mediocre but the acting was decent and the mutated rat monster costume was hysterical. If you've got a day off of work and want to spend it watching silly monster movies, which is what I was planning on doing, I would recommend putting this on your list. I've definitely managed to sit through worse. Bottom line: I got what I expected, since I wasn't expecting too much.

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.

........... this movie would get them.

Horrible.

I could have made a better movie with an empty warehouse, a cell phone and some cheap costumes I could pick up at any Costume/Movie Shop.

Run for your life.

Imagine a sci-fi horror where the mutated creature looks like something straight out of a school play, but instead of laughing with the film, you're laughing at it - that's The Mutation in a nutshell. The story? A half-baked amalgamation of genetic splicing and monster mayhem, which could have been something interesting if only the writers had bothered to actually do something with their premise. Set in America, but filmed in England, it's like a bad tourist brochure where everything is meant to scream 'USA', but the accents scream 'budget restrictions'.

The direction is trying to capture the essence of action-horror, but instead, it's like watching a hamster on a wheel - lots of effort, but no momentum. The pace is sluggish, the effects laughable, and the plot... well, it's there, kind of. The creature itself - a man in a rat suit - could've been menacing, but with its rubber claws flailing about like a child's toy, it's more sad than scary. And don't get me started on the characters - if you've seen one stereotype, you've seen them all.

If you're after a creature feature, do yourself a favour and find one where the monster doesn't look like it's still in pre-production.

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.

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.

When I saw the creature looking like a guy in a fur suit, for a "mutated rat". I thought I was in. Because I love bad horror is amazing when it's not too serious, and it's entertaining. Especially if it is a creature feature.

Like it's more "realistic" than a cartoon mouse, but it's strangely adorable, and if they were offering free hugs at a con. You would accept. This wouldn't have been a deal breaker for the film.

The dull scenes when the rat isn't on screen, however are. It feeling like it's switching between a serious film with flat acting, and a fury living his best life. Yeah, it's a bit of a whiplash. Like this could have been glorious if they film makers would have realised it was terrible, and just had fun with it.

Especially with the ending the picked. You don't go dull and serious if you pick that ending.

OK where to start...there are enough reviews on the plot (or lack thereof), so I'll talk about the production. This movie is supposed to be set in the US but the main cars are right hand drive - except for the regular looking US-style police car.

I'm an American living in the UK and it bothers the HELL out of me when locals add an r to the end of words - idear, tortillar, etc. One of the cops has a Scottish accent, and one is named McKenna but is of course pronounced "McKenner". They called an apartment a "flat", and a visible phone number is obviously a UK-based landline!! And the "attempts" at American accents are absolutely atrocious! You will laugh your ass off at the restaurant scene - just wow...

I love B horror movies but I've seen better high school AV projects.