Low-budget film-makers have more chance of being bitten by sharks, winning the lottery or making apples fall into space than they have of producing glossy period dramas. That’s why the smart ones fall in love with horror, with a genre that finds the macabre in the mundane, a creaky door, an old farmhouse, telephones ringing in the dead of night. That’s why, until Isaac Newton tumbles out of the sky muttering alien physics, you’ll see so many low-budget film-makers make their start with horror.
Zombie Virus On Mulberry Street is a prime example of creep on the cheap. The film shares similarities with Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later. Both films use guerrilla photography to great effect and both films behave like zombie movies while not, technically, being zombie movies at all. 28 Days Later had the ‘Infected’, deadly victims of a psychological virus. Mulberry Street has half rat, half human cannibals that sprout snouts and whiskers and chew their way through walls and flesh. The soon-to-be evicted tenants of a New York apartment block must hold out against a killer virus sweeping the city, .
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