Automation Transfusion
- Director: Steven C. Miller
- Writer: Steven C. Miller
- US Release Date: 18 October 2006
- Genre: Action / Horror
- Cast: A bunch of No Names
This movie first appeared at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival held annually in California. This festival is a means for unknown writers and filmmakers to show their work to famous filmmakers such as Rob Zombie, Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, among others.
Apparently they liked what they saw in 2006, and Automation Transfusion hit DVD shelves in March of this year. Being as I am not one to pass up a bloody zombie movie, I had to bite (pun intended.)
Cause and Effect
Cause is not really revealed until about 3-quarters way in (lovely military experiment gone awry. Pity.) however the movie begins with a seemingly dead body at a morgue. Typical intern guy hears sounds and moves towards it to investigate. The usual attack by undead body results in a rather massive amount of blood loss and graphic almost decapitation.
Without warning people are turning up in hospitals and the local highschool bitten and bloody. In what seems like a matter of hours, the entire town is infested with zombies.
Result
A band of teenagers decide to fight back and are forced to kill zombies/friends/family with whatever means necessary. It all seems futile however, as one by one they are bitten and transformed, and their entire town becomes one massive, gory, blood bath.
Conclusion
This movie though sounding great, is somewhat lacking. For starters, there is the amateurish filming, shaky shots, poor positioning, inadequate lighting. The audio is not much better as the voices sound as though there were recorded on a 1970's cassette deck. Granted the entire movie was filmed in a total of 9 days, which, when coupled with the intense graphic effects, is pretty impressive. But its very obviously B and in this day and age, that is not necessarily a good thing.
Aside from all the above, I actually found myself really getting into the movie. Not really sure how it happened, but it did nonetheless. And right about the time it was really getting good - TO BE CONTINUED.....
WTF???? Did I miss something?
To be continued? As in to be continued next week cliff hanger type maneuver?
What Kaka - what crap - what dung - what shit! No way was this movie good enough to even check to see if a 2nd installment is in the works..... and no way would any filmmaker invest in such drivel. They are lucky as heck the first one got picked up!
Damn. I'm gonna check it out. I wanna know what happens next. ARGH!!
Recommendation
Watch it. Or don't. I don't recommend this as a really good movie to watch, but I do recommend it if you have nothing else to do and it happens to be laying around. Decide for yourself. Then come back and let me know what you think.
