chiggles's Movie Review of Automaton Transfusion

Rating of
3/4

Automaton Transfusion

Gory
chiggles - wrote on 05/31/08

Automaton Transfusion is yet another low budget zombie film to be released this year. Earlier today I had watched the bad remake of Day of The Dead and I really had this feeling that Automaton was going to suck. Starting Automaton Transfusion, it sort of felt like every other indie film I have ever watched, but it soon picked up and I really got into it quickly. A critic called the movie "One of the best zombie films I have seen in decades!", I dont agree with that but hes getting somewhere. This film was shown during the Toronto Film Festival and reveived a lot of good criticism. With its extreme amounts of gore, the screamo/hardcore soundtrack and the tricky directing and editing, it does a good job in creating a simple yet complex zombie movie.

Steven C. Miller directs this baby with ease, the camera though has a few problems. The film seems to skip between each move, making it look like its skipping frames but its really just the camera. It got annoying but it gave the film a good look. Now, since the movie is really low budget, I didnt want there to be like huge crane shots and expensive editing, I liked the movie how it was. It was shaky and raw, with some quick editing and such. Even though a lot of directors lately have been following this trend, Steven does a great job with not taking it to the excessive level. This is grade A in the gore zone. I think the sickest of sick would absoulutely love this movie. Theres plenty of gory bites, decapitations, splatters, guts, organs, people being torn in half and much much more.

Now to the negative side of things. Since the movie was indie, the acting was really not to the top. It was kind of sloppy and it just seemed like the actors wouldnt try. Another thing is the sound, where a lot of scenes made it really tough to hear.

Bottom Line: A zombie movie in which has been seen before, but has enough changes to be seperated from the rest. Give it a look.

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