jamesjh-lee

I just saw this at the Tribeca Film Festival and I have to say that the movie wasn't all too bad. It was very formulaic and predictable, but still entertaining to a decent degree. It's take on vampires was slightly different, in that the vampires don't have fangs or have a weakness to sunlight, they just kill and drink blood. For a low budget movie that will probably go straight to DVD here in the US, it will be worth a rental - especially in that Lucy Liu bares her boobage in numerous scenes.

Carla Gugino is in the movie and sat a row in front of us at the screening in Chelsea. Holy schnikey's she has one smoking body... let's hope she sticks around as Amanda in Entourage for a few more episodes.

Personally, I couldn't wait for the movie to end. It felt like a bad student film that outlived the 10 minutes it deserved. Albeit, there was some decent dialogue and sound editing, but that's it. I felt nauseous throughout the movie, not because of the gore, but because of the extremely poor hand-held camera shots, and just plain horrible shot selection. Almost every single shot was an extremely grainy, shaky closeup. Totally nauseating. The little character development there was was just not enough for the audience to connect with the protagonists, and you didn't care if they survived or not. The premise had potential, but in the end the movie poorly attempts to duplicate the atmosphere and plot of 28 Days Later.

I spent $18 to watch this at the Tribeca Film Festival, and for that price I at least expect to watch a film with some decent storytelling. I'd be surprised if this movie ever makes it to even a DVD release at Kim's Underground Video. I saw Rise:Blood Hunter right after this screening and I will say that Mulberry Street made me appreciate Rise (a very bland, formulaic horror movie) so much more.