Mutants (2009)

Genre:  Creature Feature, Virus
Director:  David Morlet
Country:  France
Availability:  Netflix Watch Instantly

Whoever wrote the synopsis for the movie Mutants is taking advantage of the audience's love of zombies by leading us to believe that this movie is in fact about zombies. I suppose it's shame on me, seeing as the title for this movie is Mutants and not Zombies, but hey, the movie title Zombies is already taken so maybe they were just trying to be clever? Yeah, not so much. Zombies are typically people who die and are reanimated either by supernatural forces or by a virus. They usually no longer have their wits about them and crave human meatloaf. Zombies are not people who are bitten and infected with a virus, turn into cannibals (without dying), and grow extra teeth and loose their hair and develop extra nostrils. Those, I guess, are mutants. This is all just to say, if my expectation were set a little more clearly I think I would have enjoyed Mutants more. But instead of a fast paced exciting zombie movie I got a slow, bleak, stark and frustrating movie about a man slowly turning into a mutant while his girlfriend waits for him to do so. The end picked up the pace and there was fighting and running and gore galore. All in all Mutants was an artfully done horror flick with beautiful scenery, solid actors, and some really gross moments. Recommended for any fan of the genre, just know what you're in for beforehand.

3 out of 5 stars