The Mutations

The Mutations (1974)

It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature... it can be HORRIFYING!

A mad scientist crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.

Date of release
1974-05-22
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (44)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Director
Jack Cardiff

Casting

Interesting facts

The Mutations is a 1974 science-fiction horror film directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris, Julie Ege, Michael Dunn, Scott Antony and Jill Haworth. It is about a geneticist (Pleasence) performing cutting-edge but illegal experiments, and sending the resultant “freaks” to a circus sideshow.

Production

Inspired by Tod Browning's film Freaks (1932) with a science fiction twist, the film features pseudo-scientific jargon, stop motion visuals, makeup effects, references to psychedelics, comical gore, nudity, and appearances by actors with actual genetic abnormalities as well as some fictional disabilities including a man with "rubber bones" known as the Human Pretzel, a lady with reptilian skin (Alligator Lady), a Monkey Woman, a Human Pincushion…

Among the other scenes of "freaks" it depicts a reversed stop motion capture of the professor reviving a mouldy orange, and feeding a rabbit to a Venus flytrap.

The dissonant orchestral score was composed by Basil Kirchin .

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