Program

MULBERRY STREET UPDATE: Spirit Award for Best Independent Feature Film, Gold Award Winner

Jim Mickle, USA, 2007, 85 min, Digibeta

Cast: Nick Damici, Antone Pagan, Sarah Dickinson

Festival Opening Gala, Toronto Theatrical Premiere, One Screening Only
Friday, Oct 19 2007, 7.00pm, Bloor Cinema
General: $15, Student: $13, includes Entry to Opening Night Party

PRESS QUOTES

“One of the best independent horror features in recent years” –Dread Central

“Magnificent…effectively disturbing” –Bloody-Disgusting.com

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CHUD.com, Fangoria, Bloody-Disgusting, Twitch, The Movie Blog, Horror-Movies.ca, NOW Magazine, Eye Weekly, Quiet Earth, Toronto Star, Movie Patron, 10 Movies To See Before You Die, Filmopia

SYNOPSIS

A zombie apocalypse-style story about rat people taking over New York seems like a long-shot for smartest horror film of the year, but MULBERRY STREET is it. In the tradition of Romero, Jim Mickle’s debut is also action-packed, highly political and intensely horrifying.

Co-writer Nick Damici stars as an ex-boxer living in an aging NYC apartment building slated for demolition to make way for new development. On the day his daughter is set to return home – after suffering a facial wound while serving in the military overseas – a mysterious virus erupts across the city that turns people in rabid, flesh-eating rat creatures. As chaos consumes the streets, he bands together with the rest of the tight-knit tenants, including a drag queen, geriatric war veterans and a teenager whose mother is trapped at the bar she works at down the street. When the infection threatens to take over the building, the unlikely heroes make a final stand.

Inventively shot guerilla-style in the streets of the Big Apple and in Damici’s apartment, MULBERRY STREET is a triumph of indie filmmaking.
–Dave Alexander

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