a day or night in the life of an eclectic group of character and who live in a crumbling apartment complex soon to be possibly condemn on mulberry st and be focus on a a societal collapse be imminent and threatening nyc due to a crisis of infection from wide spread rodent bite . manhattan soon be overrun by infected citizen who be slowly transform into human rodent . once the citizen be completely infect by the rat virus and they attack anyone in their path and longing to feast on their flesh . character like clutch ( nick damici ) and a former boxer see often jog on the street ( also the one his fellow neighbor in the mulberry st apartment put their trust in ) and his daughter casey ( kim blair ) and recently return from a tour in iraq carry a facial scar she self conscious about and kay ( bo corre ) and a polish american single mother who work at a local pub nearby and be just a few the film isolate a the outbreak take shape . while the influence of night of the living dead ( character trap in an apartment complex a infected human await them outside ) and 28 day later . ( the giddy up rat human and shaky cam style and run human try to escape a the predator pursue them ) be undeniable and i still find mulberry st. a pulse pounding thrill ride . the rat human be shot quite the same way a the rage infect human zombie of 28 day later ( and 28 week later ) . the camera doesn not really completely eyeball them and because they move so fast and in such a frenzied state like wild animal starve for supper and that we do not exactly identify with them . and and once they be on the rampage and our regular working class hero be often on the move and or try to find shelter or weapon to protect themselves . appropriately grim with a rather downbeat climax a governmental biological team finally arrive after night close and with many of the cast member either dead or turn . the shaky cam will undoubtedly turn some people off ( . or turn their stomach ) and but it give the film an immediacy that i felt keep the viewer on edge . i can see why director mickle opt for the shaky cam technique . it do give the film a documentarian closeness with those character focus on . there be shot within the apartment which give mulberry st a claustrophobic dread while outside and there too much space ( . and often a deaden silence on desolate street with rat human eat silently and always listen for sound of fresh meat ) a body lie all over the place . larry fessenden have a funny cameo a a run civilian who lock the gate on a fellow citizen and later suffer the consequence when he himself need help . i think mulberry st be a rare film in that the character and and the actor portray them and be multi dimensional .