The Mutations - Jack Cardiff

[billy bentley]

I'm not really a horror flick fan, but Jack Cardiff's "The Mutations" is playing At Lincoln Center, NYC tomorrow Fri. Oct 29th. Is it worth seeing ?

[batman]

Not really, especially if you are not a horror fan. IMHO it is a bit slow and rather dull.

[harryfielder]

Not really, especially if you are not a horror fan. IMHO it is a bit slow and rather dull.

Good memories for me....



Aitch,

[Gerald Lovell]

Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Julie Ege and Aitch! Who could ask for more??

[m35541]

It has interesting moments and is suitably grotesque in places but it seemed to me to be a missed opportunity. The pacing is poor and the monster at the end really isn't given enough to do. Tom Baker is very good as a disfigured henchman but Pleaseence is largely wasted. Ege does some brief nudity.

[John Hamilton]

... Pleaseence is largely wasted. Ege does some brief nudity.

Two unarguable truths about practically every '70's movie

[Gerald Lovell]

Make-up man Charles Parker referred to one of his mutation creations for this film as Donald Duck, much to the grief of Derek Nimmo who was interviewing him at the time.

[m35541]

Two unarguable truths about practically every '70's movie

Well not the first one John since Halloween is a 1970s movie !! Pleasence was also (IMHO) not wasted in either Death Line or in From Beyond the Grave. Eagle has Landed also features an entertaining cameo from him as Himmler.



Inexplicably, Ms Ege fails to shed her clothes in either Creatures the World Forgot or Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires. And, as your book on Tigon films demonstrates, her nude scenes were sacreligiously deleted from Not Now Darling in order to get an A certificate.

[wearysloth]

Donald, Julie, Jill and Olga all think you should take advantage of seeing an obscure British horror film on the big screen.

I was waiting to see this one for 35 years!





As a special bonus, Aitch is in it and actually smiles!

[JamesM]

It features Basil Kirchin's final score.