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Mutant | 
 enlarge | Director: Mark Rosman;john 'bud' Cardos
Actors: Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, Jody Medford, Lee Montgomery, Marc Clement
Studio: ELITE ENTERTAINMENT
Category: DVD
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 44901
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
UPC: 790594688226
EAN: 7905946882266
ASIN: B00004W3H8
Theatrical Release Date: August 1984
Release Date: October 31, 2000
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Product Description
While on vacation, two brothers discover a small town's hideous secret. A nearby chemical plant has been dumping toxic waste just outside of town, turning the townspeople into contaminated, mutant zombies. Now, there's nowhere to run as the growing army of blood thirsty ghouls takes over the town and devours the remaining humans, one by one. Stars Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, Lee Montgomery and Jody Medford.
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 please stay away from the diamond version October 8, 2007
Bob Moreault (vardun)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
just finish watching this movie.the movie itself is good, the problem i have is with this version i got.its a transfere from a vhs, 80% of the movie is in night time..... you cant see nothing ! Their is no menu, no xtras nothing.I heard the elit version (with the same cover) is way better so dont make a mystake of buying the same i got.
 Toxic Shocker... April 17, 2007
Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein (under the rubble)
Wings Hauser (Vice Squad) plays a guy who gets stuck in a small, hick town w/ his brother, after some evil rednecks force their car into a creek. Soon, we realize that things just aren't normal in town, as Wings' brother disappears and killer-mutants begin their onslaught! You see, toxic waste has once again created an army of zombies on the loose! There's lots of goo and slime, multiple deaths, and paranoia galore! Hauser is really good in this movie. Bo Hopkins is also quite believable as the sheriff. Directed by John "Bud" Cardos (Kingdom Of The Spiders, The Dark), MUTANT is well worth adding to any horrorhound's dvd shelf...
A pleasant surprise. October 18, 2006
A. Gustafsson (Norway)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was afraid this one's was gonna be some cheap garbage, but it wasn't as bad as I excpected. Some of the zombies looked a bit crappy but most of them work. And their abillity to melt things with their hands added some creepy moments to the film. The mutant transformations were spooky to. I like it when I see a movie that manages to create thrills and suspense without using buckeloads of gore. A lot of zombie movies tend to show a lot of guts beign torn out or necks chewed open. But this one has a more old-school feel to it and dosen't show to much graphic violence and tries to leave something for the viewers who can develop imaginations.
So, I consider it a decent movie with ok effects and good actors.
 Great Scary Film March 19, 2006
Steve Saunders
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mutant is one of my favorite horror films from the 80s.The makeup on the mutants was very eerie.Instead of zombies just killing people this movie gave a scary scientific explanation of how the mutants got that way.It had more of a story to it.Standout performances go to Wings Hauser,Bo Hopkins and Jennifer Warren.The toxic substance seeping from the creatures hands was also well thought out.Since the film took place mostly in the dark that added to the frightening suspense.Highly recommended.
Maknind's deadliest threat will not come from the skies... January 6, 2006
cookieman108 (Inside the jar...)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
From co-producer Dick Clark ("American Bandstand") and former stuntman turned director John 'Bud' Cardos (Kingdom of the Spiders, The Day Time Ended) comes Mutant (1984) aka Night Shadows, a film which executives and shareholders of the New Era Corporation "Research Today for a Better Tomorrow" didn't want you to see...starring in the movie is Wings Hauser (Vice Squad, Tales from the Hood) and Bo Hopkins (Tentacles, Midnight Express). Also appearing is Jody Medford (Chained Heat), Lee Montgomery (The Million Dollar Duck, Ben), Marc Clement (Mississippi Burning, Chattahoochee), and Jennifer Warren (Slap Shot, Ice Castles).
As the film begins it's nighttime and we see a man walking about the grounds of a large house, collecting samples of a yellowish, mustard-like goo emanating from the ground. After this, in a classic `what the hell were they thinking' moment, he enters the basement of the house through an external door and finds...something nasty. The next day we see two brothers, Josh (Hauser) and Mike (Montgomery), driving down a country road, the pair heading to an unknown vacation destination. After a fender bending run in with some local yokels in a pick-up truck, Josh ends up putting the car in a creek, and the two have to hoof it to a nearby town, which the reach by nightfall, just in time to find a dead guy whose face had seemingly been melted off. They go to the only place open, a bar, get into a brouhaha with the same yokels as before, eventually broken up by Sheriff Will Stewart (Hopkins). They report the dead body, but upon returning to where they found it (in a nearby alley), surprise, surprise it's gone...the sheriff hooks the two up with a place to stay for the night, and Josh wakes up the next day to discover his brother has gone missing. Meanwhile, Dr. Myra Tate (Warren), the town's general practitioner, has noticed a severe drop off in her business, and those who do show up seem to be suffering from some weird, flu-like ailment. Seems most of the town is down with the sickness, and subsequently the streets are deserted. Josh, while searching for his brother, hooks up with Holly Pierce (Medford), a teacher at the local school, and the pair begin to notice things just ain't right...after a few bodies surface, Josh puts two and two together (to get five), and deduces a possible connection to the New Era Corporation, which purchased land in the area that included some abandoned mines. While snooping around Josh discovers New Era is actually using the mines to dump toxic, chemical goo (talk about lack of corporate responsibility), which, in turn, is seeping into ground and turning the residents of nearby Goodland into mutants, favoring the darkness, feasting on the blood of the living through orifices in their hands, which also ooze burning, flesh eating secretions, strong enough to dissolve through metal...sound bad? Well, it's about to get a whole lot worse as night is coming, and that when the creatures are most active...
Well, for an independently made film, Mutant was actually pretty decent, despite some obvious flaws. The strengths include a relatively solid cast as both Hauser and Hopkins make good showings, along with a strong sense of forward movement in the story. There's also a whole lot of character development, a good deal of which I actually found unnecessary and even awkward, but I think the latter was due more to how it was introduced rather than the fact it was included. As the film progresses, we a number of minor vignettes between the principal players where some snippet of their background is chucked out there for the hell of it, in soap opera fashion, not really affecting the story much (the sheriff, who was at one point involved with Dr. Tate, has a drinking problem, and once was a big city cop before he shot a kid)...what's the point? It's kind of hard to explain, but these various bits of background information didn't seem to emanate naturally from the story for me, but more so just dumped in my lap and created a sense of a whole lot of puzzle pieces that fit together, but not very well. On the other hand, I did appreciate these attempts to try and develop a real story with lifelike characters, rather than just cranking out another run of the mill horror film. Anyway, as I said, Hauser and Hopkins did pretty well, but I didn't think the same of Jody Medford. Her performance didn't work that well half the time, but I don't want to be too harsh on her as this was only her second film. As far as the hillbilly mutants go (some in nothing but coveralls), I thought they looked pretty effective. The face makeup seemed a little over the top, especially around the eyes, but the notion of using gaping holes in the palms of their hands to actually feed on others was kind of cool. There was little blood or gore, so if that's your bag, you'll probably be disappointed. The parts I really liked were during the transformation sequences, as body parts would begin to pulsate and percolate, creating a real sense of nastiness. As others have mentioned, there are a lot of similarities of this movie to any number of walking dead films out there, intensified by Cardos' predictable direction. Don't get me wrong, predictable isn't bad, it's just...predictable. Most all the scares in this feature are of the `pop out' kind, where it's obvious to the viewer that something is going to happen, and then sure enough, someone (or something) pops out of a closet or what not. And I'll tell you what, the filmmakers certainly got their money's worth from whoever was working that fog machine during the night scenes...I guess it's better to have too much than too little. I think my favorite scene was after Josh got caught snooping on the industrial site, witnessing the chemicals being dumped down the mine. A subsequent fight scene has a number of workers accidentally being flipped down the same, giant hole they were dumping the toxic go-go juice, eliciting gruesome images of their most certain demise (if the fall don't kill `em, the goo surely will). I also enjoyed the original musical scoring from Richard Band, who's worked on films like Re-Animator (1985), From Beyond (1986), and The Arrival (1990), but it did get repetitive at times as the same theme was played over and over again.
I've noticed there's more than one DVD release for this film, so I can only speak towards the quality of the Elite Entertainment DVD release, which was quite good. The widescreen (1.85:1), enhanced for 16X9 TVs, is clean and clear. One odd thing though, this is the first DVD where I actually had to change the settings on my player to get the film to play in widescreen format (prior to this, it came up in fullscreen format). I'm usure the format of the audio, but it comes through very well and with no complaints. As far as extras go, there really isn't anything, except for a theatrical trailer for the film.
Cookieman108
If I learned anything from this movie, it's that Wings Hauser is a rotten driver (he cracked up two, count `em, two vehicles), who sweats a whole lot.
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