The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

It is good going into these films 'blind' if at all possible. It's a risk, of course - sometimes you are met with something distinctly not to your tastes; other times you are met with fascinating gems like this. Mulberry Street in Lower Manhattan is in the grip of developers determined to tear down the ghettos, destroy the urban communities and make everything clean and new. The squalidity is expertly conveyed, with Director Jim Mickle (also well known for 2010's 'Stake Land') teasing out details of rubbish-strewn walkways, cramped and flaking run-down apartment blocks and most pertinent of all, angry mutant rats. So angry at the developments to their homes, in fact, that they begin to infect the locals, creating a race, not of zombies, but of rat-faced killers.It is an unglamorous setting, but there are moments laced with humour. A scrawled 'F*** you' on the bottom of a tenancy agreement pinned to a reception wall; the first infected local is discussed in a bar: "I'd be more concerned for the guy who bit him." This adds a warmth and humour that really sells the idea of this close community, and therefore we care about what happens to them.Casey (Kim Blair) is out on the streets when things become nasty. Kay is a pretty blond woman, resourceful and real, as unlike a screaming bimbo as it is likely to be. She's played by Bo Corre, possibly best-known for her role as Ingrid in short-lived BBC soap 'Eldorado.' Strong, shy Clutch (Nick Damici) is the object of her affection, with Coco (Ron Brice) a jealous rival for his attention. A heady, likeable bunch, and all firmly established by the time the mass infection takes effect. Like impossibly fast-moving Nosferatu-types, these creatures' stuttering attacks are very much in the style of those from '28 Days Later (2002)' and every bit as effective.Gloomy, cruel and hard-hitting: I loved every minute of this.

Mulberry Street is your stock standard rat virus that turns people into bloodthirsty idiots movie. Movie starts off a little slow as it introduces the random assortment of characters whose lives are all intertwined by living in a crumbling old New York apartment building. The opening sequence has flashes of rats scampering through pipes, sewers and subways and then focusing their attention on the human world above.Through random news broadcasts we get the story of people on the subway getting bitten by rats and this leads to the shutdown of the subway system and then the gradual quarantine of manhattan. The first we see of the outcome of these infected rat bites is when the aforementioned apartment building super, finds what he thinks is a dead and almost dessicated rat that somehow springs back to life and still has enough strength to bite into his arm. A while later he finds himself growing extra hair and generally feeling uneasy as he starts to transition from poor excuse for a building super into an even poorer excuse for a rat-man. More news broadcasts tell us that the rat bites are spreading and the city hospitals etc are being overrun. Before too long, the city streets become a free-for-all as law and order starts to break down and rat infected people start to randomly attack people, first on the street and then by breaking into homes and anywhere where people are taking refuge. Initially the authorities downplay the increase in rat bites saying that hundreds of people are bitten by rats in New York every day, however they don't start to mutate and kill people. Most of the movie centers around the small apartment block and the survivors holed up in their rooms trying to stay quiet and alive and wait for the military to start operations to sweep the city and rescue them. These recently mutated people have excellent hearing and insatiable appetites and unlike other movies in this genre, they won't just eat humans, we also see cats and other pets being grabbed and killed as anything is considered as food. By the end heavily armed soldiers in biohazard suits storm the buildings one by one and kill anyone who's infected and take into isolation any survivor. From there the movie just ends once most of the main cast has been killed and only a couple of residents who made it to the roof of the building end up being saved. As mentioned, the movie is not without its flaws. Most of the action takes place at night and as this was done on a budget, the filming is of the shaky hand-held camera kind. While this isn't a found footage movie, it plays like it's being filmed in front of an on scene camera crew, with all the running, fighting and horror scenes ending up as a blurry mess of action and with all the darkness and shadows you're hard pressed to work out what exactly is going on. In addition there's no real indication of what started the whole rat plague and there is no ending and no outcome. We have no idea if New York is now a no-go hot zone or if the whole island will need to be fumigated once all humans have been removed as there is no reason to assume the plague will fix itself. There is some indication that the plague/virus may have been deliberately generated as the movie focuses on the fact that lower manhattan is due for redevelopment and the apartment building at the centre of this film has been acquired and all tenants were due to make their respective apartments available for rent re-evaluation, however if most people are dead or relocated out of fear of spreading the virus, then development can proceed unhindered. That's at least what I took from this, of course I could be wrong, and unless they come out with a sequel I'm sticking to it.

Mulberry Street (2006) here in the UK for some odd reason its' called Zombie Virus on Mulberry street (2006), Even the movie titled is Mulberry street , don't get the point of that at all. (I worse think about it their NOT Zombies they are infected)I have seen this movie few times now, I really liked it, People are attacked by Rats but not killed only bitten by then. When you did get bitten by then you will turn into blood-thirsty rat creatures, , I really enjoyed this movie. I loved how transformation was slowly and you get tell how they change and the transformation was really good but there could have been a bit better. I don't think the movie was too gory, the attack can be a bit bloody at times, I did expect it to be a bit more gory The make up effect were really good in this movie, Rats attack was really good and Human-Rats were did look scary at times. Ending of this movie was really good really good but very sad in this movie, kind of the whole movie feel very depressing.Great acting from the whole cast 7 out of 10

Mulberry Street is set in New York City where Rat's begin attacking people, at first in the subway but soon every Rat is attacking & biting any person within reach. The news starts to filter out to the public, through TV news reports & the presence of panic on the streets as those bitten by a Rat turn into a Rat monster who feed on human flesh & blood. The tenants of an apartment block on Mulberry Street barricade themselves inside their homes as the infection spreads & more Rat zombie people infest the city soon outnumbering normal human beings. New York is quarantined & it's survival of the fittest as any human left are left to fend for themselves while the authorities who are keen to stop an epidemic may not be as helpful as they should...Co-written & directed by Jim Mickie this zero budget zombie monster film is a depressing watch, badly written & made Mulberry Street is just plain bad. At only 80 odd minutes long the pace should be good but while watching Mulberry Street I felt like it was going on for days, the script starts off in rather unremarkable fashion with various New Yorkers seen working & going about their business while making conversation with small talk that ultimately feels natural but also dull. I can't really remember any of the character development which consists of boring everyday stuff that while it gives Mulberry Street a gritty & bland feel. While watching Mulberry Street build I couldn't help but think the makers were trying to go for a 9/11 feel, the whole terrorist attack thing as news reports slowly leak out, the way the authorities close New York & the way New Yorkers seem almost immune to it at first & I am sure Mulberry Street tries to play off the security fears of people & the climax in which the Government sent authorities are not actually there to help the common person is surely a thinly veiled attack on policy. The film does remind of Cloverfield (2008) but with Rat creatures instead of a giant monster. As a zombie film Mulberry Street sucks, there's zero explanation as to how the Rat's infect people or what the infection is & the script presents the usual group of surviving humans fighting to stay human as the odd member gets picked off every so often.The way Mulberry Street is filmed is also reminiscent of Cloverfield with the frantic & frenzied hand held shaky camera moving all over the place, often quite dark Mulberry Street isn't a particularly nice looking film. The gore is minimal, a few splashes of blood but nothing else worth mentioning. There are a couple of really bad CGI computer effects but that's par for the course it seems these days in low budget filmmaking.With a supposed budget of about $60,000 the makers didn't have any money & it show's, the whole film looks low budget. Filmed in New York. The acting is average, no-one really stood out to be fair.Mulberry Street is a film that obviously has a post 9/11 agenda that also tries to play on security fears, I can't say i was impressed at all & the actual horror film that's left is as dull as they come. I only saw it a few hours ago & I barely remember it. Known as Zombie Virus on Mulberry Street here in the UK, presumably to make it sound more interesting.