Lack of good storyline.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I thought Freddie Francis had hit rock bottom in his slide from Oscar-winning cameraman to director of schlock horror when he made 'Trog'; but Jack Cardiff fell even further when he was reduced to making this grotesque trash in which he drags down with him a cast with more respectable work behind them, here plainly slumming it (Tom Baker is probably relieved that he was almost unrecognisable in this), yet shot in incongruously saturated colours.At a time when the British cinema was at its absolute nadir, this would have been tasteless enough if it hadn't also had the nerve to frequently evoke Tod Browning's 'Freaks', including scenes in which the late Michael Dunn and the film's genuine 'freaks' are more touching than the film deserves. There are plentiful signs of earlier mad scientist movies plundered, all of which it far surpasses in producing a final monster modelled on the Venus Fly Trap so grotesquely ridiculous-looking the film's makers do their best to make sure we don't see too much of it; but even that is too much.Michael Dunn died over a year before the film was released, and I suspect it had a troubled production. Horror authority David Pirie would have been the man to tell us what the British Board of Film Censors made of it; but it languishes in such merited obscurity it's not even included in the revised edition of his exhaustive study of the British horror film, 'A Heritage of Horror'.

Donald Pleasence is a mad doctor trying to mix plant and animals, who only succeeds in causing weird mutations. Aiding Pleasence is Tom (Dr Who) Baker who is a deformed owner of a circus side show.Slow dull mess that has a great cast, cool effects but a pace that will put you out. I've loved the photos I saw from the film over the years and was really looking forward to seeing the film at last.Boy was I disappointed as things seemed to be all talk and little action, even if the monsters look great and the circus side show sequence is fun. Despite my best efforts to stick it out to the end I finally had to break down and scan through some of the verbal nonsense.Worth a look if you like cool monsters and are are forgiving, for any one else I'd take a pass.

Ignore the uptight weirdo who spends 10,000 words bashing this movie. It's very enjoyable as long as you're a fan of the genre. With many gratuitous LSD references and a real live carnival freak show, how can you go wrong? If you thought Swamp Thing was too intellectual and The Fly was just too gross, this movie might definitely be for you. One of many human-cross-animal or plant movies, what causes this one to stand out is the overall creepiness of Donald Pleasance and, basically, the entire plot (what you can make of it).Time-lapse photography inserted for no particular reason just adds to the fun. The people who made this movie must have had a blast and so will you as long as you're not some amateur wannabe film critic. Sheesh!

Original is not a word to describe THE MUTATIONS . To sum up its plot it`s a hybrid between a mad scientist film and FREAKS. Unoriginality is not enough to condemn it of course , but what makes THE MUTATIONS a truly terrible film is the fact that it`s so sickening.When Tod Browning made FREAKS in the 1930s disabilty and deformatity were I imagine treated differently in those days. Not so in the 1970s when the concept of a traveling " freakshow " wouldn`t have drawn an audience. Indeed it`s highly unlikely any council would have allowed it to take place on the grounds of taste due to a public outcry. There`s no way I`d pay to go and see that and I feel disgusted I watched a film where people with real deformaties are used in the name of entertainment. Perhaps the saddest one was " The skeleton woman " who looked like she`d just been rescued from a Nazi death camp.*****SPOILERS ( though how can I spoil your " enjoyment " of this filth is beyond me ) ***** I`ve outlined a good enough reason not to watch it , but may I also point out that this film is also extremely sloppy and underdeveloped in terms of script and production too. For example the hero gets turned into a man eating plant and for no reason consumes a drunken passerby. I say for no reason because he can still control his human emotions which he demonstrated in the previous scene by talking to his girlfriend and demonstrates it again at the end by attacking the villain in his lab. And this action scene seems to have been directed, edited and had make- up artists by people who were too untalented to have worked on the worst school play production . Still it could have been worse , if the rest of the film is anything to go by the production crew might have dug up a decomposed corpse and used that for the villain`s death scene. And get ready for a final shock plot twist at the end though how can anyone be shocked by the final scene when we`ve already seen exploitation of the worst sort leaves me pondering.You`re probably asking yourself why I decided to watch THE MUTATIONS all the way through instead of switching it off in disgust ? Make no mistake this film did disgust and disturb me. Well it did star a pre-fame Tom Baker as Donald Pleasence`s henchman . I can watch anything with Baker in it and to see him play a nasty piece of work does have a certain novelty value Check out VAULT OF TERROR ) , but even that didn`t stop wanting to swith off the TV frequently. And for my sins I had to get into a warm soapy bath afterwards and scrub myself clean , That`s how much THE MUTATIONS disgusted me