Mutants
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mutants |
| Original title | Mutants |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Morlet |
| script |
Louis-Paul Desanges David Morlet |
| production |
Alain Benguigui Thomas Verhaeghe |
| camera | Nicolas Massart |
| occupation | |
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Mutants (alternate title: Mutants - You'll have to kill them! ) Is a 2009 French horror film directed by David Morlet .
action
An infectious disease has transformed almost all of humanity into cannibalistic beings in a very short time . The few who have not yet been infected are struggling to survive. So did pregnant Sonia and her boyfriend Marco. Traveling in an ambulance, they try to reach the nearby Noe military base with a soldier and a seriously injured man. On the way there, the soldier kills the man who can no longer be saved. When the three of them stop to refuel, the soldier is attacked by a man. Sonia protects the man she thinks is a frightened autistic person and an argument breaks out between the three of them. When the man attacks Marco, the soldier shoots him, who dies in the course of the subsequent firefight. Marco sustained a gunshot wound and swallowed the infected person's blood.
With the last tank of fuel, Sonia and Marco reach a former medical building. Sonia takes care of her friend's wounds and gives him hope. She herself was bitten, but showed no symptoms of the disease. Maybe she could help him by giving him transfusions with her blood. However, the treatment does not show any success. Time and again, Sonia tries to establish radio contact with the military base, but it is not clear whether she will succeed. Marco's infection is now so advanced that she has to isolate him. Instead of the hoped-for rescue by the military, a group of three men and a woman, led by the psychopathic Franck, appears who want the keys to the ambulance. One of the men is injured and Sonia takes care of him. She can persuade the opaque Virgile to take her to a radio. Once there, Sonia manages to establish radio contact with the Noe military base and report on her immunity. However, the two are attacked by infected people and Virgile dies.
Sonia, who let Virgile take her to the radio without the knowledge of the others and now comes back without Virgile and without petrol for the ambulance, is brutally beaten by Franck. Marco, who is locked in the basement and where the infection continues to progress, utters a bloodcurdling scream that other infected people hear and which they attack when they attack the building. The group is killed one by one by the infected. With the help of her friend Marco, Sonia can escape to a small, securely fenced area, but Marco has little control over his behavior. Sonia kills her friend. As the infected try to get over the barbed wire fence, a helicopter appears from the military base. The soldiers kill the infected in the immediate vicinity and take Sonia with them in the helicopter.
background
After two short films, Mutants is director David Morlet's debut feature film. The film was shot on a budget. It plays in a few locations in winter.
Although the film title suggests mutants , the reference to zombie films is clear, as the infected behave just like zombies. The film focuses on the individual fate of a pair of lovers and shows in many places the hopeless relationship between hope and fear for rescue. With the psychopathic Franck, there is also a character who has already developed into the "integral part of the post-apocalyptic subpolitical" zombie film in The Night of the Living Dead : the "beast in human form", a dehumanized character who zombies (or in this case mutants) fought out of sheer desire to kill, but is itself completely socially and morally depraved.
publication
Mutants was shown for the first time on January 31, 2009 at the Gérardmer Film Festival . The German version was premiered on August 21, 2009 at the Fantasy Film Festival . The film was released by Sunfilm Entertainment in German-speaking countries. The DVD was released on January 7, 2010, followed by a Blu-ray release on February 5, 2010. The film was released by the FSK without youth approval.
Reviews
Mutants was attributed by many critics of the new wave of horror films from France to Martyrs or Frontier (s) , who increasingly rely on hard splatter effects , but also want to tell a more complex story. Whereby Mutants seems to be strongly influenced by the British 28 Days Later and the novel Ich bin Legende or its film adaptations. The reviews were very mixed, the film was sometimes favorably praised, but it was also described as mediocre.
“MUTANTS is atmospheric tension cinema of the European kind - hard, psychological, nihilistic. Less is more here, there is no need to undertake epic journeys through Zombie Land, you don't need a mass of shooting gallery figures, the snowy setting and a handful of ambivalent characters are enough. The dynamic camera and a claustrophobic sound design make the film a pleasure for genre fans. "
“The effective staging is not able to add anything new to the horror subgenre of the zombie or mutant thriller. You also look in vain for depth in this always solid, but never really convincing splatter film. You already know the motifs of the film from elsewhere, from better and more innovative genre representatives. For this reason you are hardly ever really surprised: what is shown is too familiar, although this time it comes from France for once. "
Web links
- Mutants in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website on CTV International
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Review. Hanlemedown.de, accessed on September 16, 2010 .
- ^ Gérardmer 2009: Mutants. Films-horreur.com, February 5, 2009, accessed September 16, 2010 .
- ^ Mutants in the OFDb
- ↑ Marcus Stiglegger: Review. Ikonen-Magazin, accessed September 16, 2010 .
- ^ Lutz Granert: Review. Moviemaze.com, accessed September 16, 2010 .