Amazon Prime: Gobble these horror films up this Thanksgiving

3. Mulberry Street

Mulberry Street is one of the better films brought to us by After Dark Films as part of their 8 Films to Die For series. Written and directed by Nick Damici and Jim Mickle, who also brought us Stake Land, Mulberry Street is set in Manhattan, where sewer rats are responsible for a deadly virus that basically turns humans into rat-like creatures.

Damici stars as Clutch, a retired boxer who is waiting for a visit from his daughter, a soldier who has just returned from Iraq. He is holed up in a run-down apartment building, along with some of the other tenants, and the actors playing these characters make you really care about them.

As Clutch and the others fight to avoid the rat creatures, his daughter Casey is trying to get to him, and navigates Manhattan on foot, trying to stay away from the infected. Her scenes are harrowing, and I was rooting for her the whole way.

Why would I recommend this film for Thanksgiving viewing? Well, this is also a family story, but it doesn’t focus on people who are family by blood. Instead, these characters are mostly family by choice, and some of them are very closely bonded.

Mulberry Street is an independent film obviously made on a budget, so don’t expect fantastic special effects (though the gore count is pretty high). What you can expect is a great, suspenseful, heartfelt storyline and actors who give killer performances.