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Posted By: BK's Finest at 1:53am, November 12, 2008
When you watch this movie with 4 friends and none of them like it, what does that tell you this movie sucked. Don't waste 85 minutes of your life.
Posted By: Mr. Willson at 12:36am, October 16, 2008
There's probably a reason this is a low budget film. I wouldn't give my money to fund crap, either. This film is abhorrent. I don't care if it's 'indie and low budget' or if they spent a bajillion dollars to make it. If it's garbage, it's garbage. This film is no different. I threw it in the trash the day after I watched it. Not even worthy of being a coaster. What a waste.
Where to start...first of all I'm still upset that I spent my hard earned money to rent this from blockbuster. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with severely low budget independent student films, but this was ridiculous.
Low budget does NOT mean the movie has to be bad. I've seen plenty of extremely great low budget horror movies. Automaton Transfusion failed to be one of those. The camera angles were horrible. The script was horrible, and the actors were horrible. Everything was over-dramatic to no effect. Nothing related to anything except for senseless gore which was mediocre at best and didn't even serve to make this movie worth recommending to anyone. Take my advice, if you want a really good scare, want to watch amazing gore, or are just bored and want something to watch, save your money and rent something else.
Absolutely phenomenal movie, nevermind the low budget. the Gore was amazing and it didnt even feel like a low budget movie, Cant wait for Contingency
Posted By: loyal_to_none at 6:40pm, October 12, 2008
This movie was terrible. I'd like to know how much cash bloody-disgusting was given to provide quotes for the DVD box. Phrases like "Holy Grail" and "One of the best zombie films in decades" seem to imply that this film would kick ass. Oh, but what a turd it is. I hope the person who wrote these quotes gets a bout of explosive diarrhea the next time he or she sits down to lie about another bad horror movie.
Posted By: VoodooKitchen at 1:57pm, September 22, 2008
Let me start with this ... I watched it once with the director/producer commentary on. It took me about ten lines of dialogue to know I was not going to be able to stand the deliveries of the "badass" and the "sidekick" so I turned them off. With that said, I can not understand the hatred being shown for this movie. It was a full throttle, balls to the walls, independent gem. Maybe I'm biased because I thought the commentary was great. They had a ton of stories and explanations and they were quick to point out their own loopholes, gaffes and problems. The pacing and editing were fantastic. The movie flew by and was over before I knew it.
Now let me get to the true heart of this flick. Absolutely inspired gore. It was red, gooey, chunky and non-stop. Kudos to the filmmakers for putting their budget were it counted the most. They know that the way to a horror fans heart is through an eviscerated corpse or two.
Lastly I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge the fact that this was shot in 9 ....
that's 9 days and for around 30,000 (unbelievable)
It's also shot much more guerilla style than many other indies that claim that title. Just listen to the commentary for some tales of financial organization and truly dangerous filming.
If you are a fan of the red stuff and can keep in mind the time and budgetary restraints this film was under, make a point of giving it a go. If not, don't bother cause you won't let yourself have any fun with it.
all i can say is that i love my zombie films, i love extrememly gory films all the same. the bloodier the better. i was enjoying this film up until the fetus scene. and i thought, whut the fuck, the director either must be retarded or he is the answer to all the dead babies across usa. i'm jus glad i didn't pay much for this, so i was more then happy 2 cook it on my bbq. film was pathetic, and the director is an embarissment to the horror genre
Bloody-Disgusting calls this film "one of the best zombie films in decades," whichever asshole wrote that obviously never even watched it. It is absolutely, by far, the worst movie EVER made. I got this account for one reason and one reason only, I want the person who wrote that review to commit suicide! I hope you commit suicide and you don't come back as a zombie, because frankly, you don't deserve it...
i put it right up there with "children of the living dead", "hell of the living dead" and "hide and creep". not sure which is the all-time worst fucking piece of shit ever made. all i do know is that's a little over an hour of my life i'll regret wasting for a long fucking time. thanks a lot BD, ya dumbass'.
was not worth the gas it took to go to the dvd store to rent it. will think long and hard about the next movie BD gives a good prop to. wish the rating click would let me put a minus on it.
I'm not one to say things like "it's good for what it is" because that implies you're holding something high in low expectations and that seems trite to me.
With that said this is a descent independent zombies movie and I feel that Steven Miller has a lot of potential. There are some major faults with it though. An obvious fan and a part of an independent music scene Miller annoyingly puts unnecessary music in awful scenes killing the mood and alienating the audience (hey man I go to, play, and book shows too but I don't want to hear some sceamo metalcore band playing over a prep high school house party). The only reason I mention this is because there is a mood creating music(I'm assuming the string feature on a keyboard because of the low budget) that definitely sets the tone.
The gore was impressive but not nearly as what I thought it was going to be after seeing what other people wrote about it. The acting was mediocre but didn't ruin the movie. There were some good shots but still gave off the impression that they were amateur and the ones he did nail were accidental. Definitely trail and error directing.
Another annoyance I found is that most of the zombies went to the shoot wearing clothes they wouldn't mind getting kero syrup on. I mean everyone is wearing a white or sold color t-shirt. After noticing a legion of zombies in white shirts I was annoyed that nobody thought to change that. Unless this movie was a zombie version of "Grease" they should of been wearing more modern clothes.
The ending was well...disappointing. It's like Miller used his mouse to scroll up whatever apple computer he owns and realized he has a lot of material and no where else to go...thus setting up the definite sequel.
I think Steven Miller has a lot of potential as a writer and as a director. I'm looking forward to his future efforts. I'm just not really sure if I'm going to watch Automaton Transfusion 2.
All in all Automaton Transfusion is Dawn of the Dead(remake) in diapers. But hey in my book thats a compliment. Shit it did trump the master Romero and his god awful Diary of the Dead.
I rented this yesterday. My friend and I always get a great kick out of indie horror films, whether they're good or bad. This one, however, was just horrendous. We shut it off about an hour into it. It was painful to watch and listen to. Yes, the gore was good but that's not nearly enough to make it worth while. And I understand that the actors aren't A list actors, but that doesn't give them a reason to overact either. This movie was not enjoyable and from this point forward I'm going to continue pretending that it doesn't exist.
I'll admit that my impression of this movie after the first viewing was pretty low, but after my second viewing I realized movies like this have to be forgiven in certain aspects. It had a very low budget, only 9 days of shooting and actors who were doing their first real motion picture. If you actually pull your head out of your ass and take it for what it's worth, this movie is pretty bitchin' and that's basically what the director and producers were shooting for. The gore effects are fantastic and NOT CGI, unlike another recent zombie movie that was quite shitty *cough* Diary of The Dead *cough*. The only reason I can come up with why this is getting such low ratings is because some of these people haven't seen many indie movies and obviously expect every film they see to be perfect in every way imaginable, which is gay. Yes, it has its flaws, but when taken in context, those flaws are fairly minor. It's a fun, gory ride that every true fan of the genre would enjoy.
Overrated. The hype killed this movie for me. If I had gone in knowing that I was going to see a digital zombie movie shot by some film students and their friends in 9 days, perhaps I would not have been so critical, but as it goes, typical low-budget zombie fare. Nothing new here.
I watched this movie based on the great review it got from this site. But alas, it was horrible. It had a couple of cool scenes, and I live in central Florida, so when they went to Backbooth I really thought that was awesome. But it was utter crap. What was up with the shaky camera effect? I could hardly stand it. I felt embarrassed to make my friends sit through it. Thanks Bloody Disgusting, thanks a lot.
Seriously now, we're all horror fans and we've seen the best and the worst -Atleast most of us in such- But that's not the point. The point is that right now the majority rules and the majority as spoken and for the first time i can agree with the majority. This movie sucks, okay if you haven't seen it there will be spoilers in my review and i heed you to read this rather than see it for yourself. But if you are gonna take the chance to watch this shit please do it illegally and download cause you're better off going to prison than watching or paying to watch this shit. The opening scene gives off the appearance of a semi decent film, then it turns into high school fuckin' musical where the film decides to revolve around a group of whiney ass teens. As if we thought teen horror couldn't get any worse huh? Of course with the group of teens we have guess who????? Token the corny black guy who they clearly show has brass knuckles and says the most unusual line after being punked out by the school jock "I'd like to put a chainsaw through his face" or something like that. Guess what???? HE GET'S TOO. Now that would work in a comedy cause it'd be a joke, but come on now a serious horror flick? It gets better, one of the worse and yet memorable scenes is the post party scene where one of the girls is still trapped in the house and being chased by a zombie, her lil group of friends run into the house being chased by a horde of zombies, struggle to keep the door closed, see the girl and the one zombie following her and exit through the same door they entered and we just struggling to keep closed from a horde of dead. Okay again if this were a comedy it would be funny. But this were meant to be a serious film, and if it were meant to be comedy it still failed. Trust me you can get your fix of gore anywhere else cause there isnt much to be impressed by here. The fetus scene i thought was kinda cool, kind caught me off guard in the first place seeing that it's mind you a prego in a party were ppl are smoking and drinking and so on, who mind you doesn't look to prego to begin with, who is suddenly attacked by the one and only zombie there, which sure in a party of about 30 ppl jocks included you would think maybe someone would've had the balls to fight that one zombie off after the first attack but no they all run. Another memorable and bad scene, the city sequence. We all love suspense and build ups and such cause it keeps us watching. But if this scene we trying to achieve that it failed. For us that have seen many a zombie film, we all know once it hits a city are it'll spread out like a plague and chaos would be everywhere so on and so forth. Not here, the city is quiet, clean, and not a single soul nor zombie in sight. That is until our group of protagonist stop and get out of the vehicle and suddenly a group of zombies come from the direction the just came from. Funny,huh? You think they'd be driving around one minute saying "there's something wrong where is everyone" to "hey there's ppl behind us i see them in the review mirror". But then again it's only a movie no one can spot a huge flaw like where the hell did a horde of undead just suddenly emerge from when they should of seen the bastards in the city roaming freely in the first place. "IT'S A FUCKING CITY WHERE'S THE CHAOS" Another shitty scene, when they decide to gather into the high school, yes the school. Seems like a good idea, until the find out the school had been thwarted with the undead as well, who mind you are mostly laying around on the gym floor and in the most predictable of manners sequentially rise. WTF? How can you can more original than that right? Bull shit fucking ass raping donkey dick sucking puss fucks. Another amazingly bad error -seeing this film itself is the worst error of all- is when the explanation come in, it seems the town were there as a government experiment or something, because the government wanted to raise the dead to life in order to have the undead legion fight the wars for the living so we don't lose any of our own. See that i like, "WHEN I SAW THE FIRST TIME IN RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD" All and all do yourself the favor dont watch it, i mean hell some like it and it may be your type of flick but, the script is unintelligible, the cinematography a la 28 days is excruciatingly bad, the acting.... the character development? i can go on. Trust the majority, don't watch. Unless of course you only have a choice of this and house of the dead then i say watch this 50 times over any one of Uwe Bowel's film. Yes i meant to spell it like that. So it shows this isn't the worst flm but still pretty bad, after all i think they worst movie i've ever seen i'd leave nameless =cough cough Tower of blood cough cough= well wether you agree or not this is y review :-P
Seriously now, we're all horror fans and we've seen the best and the worst -Atleast most of us in such- But that's not the point. The point is that right now the majority rules and the majority as spoken and for the first time i can agree with the majority. This movie sucks, okay if you haven't seen it there will be spoilers in my review and i heed you to read this rather than see it for yourself. But if you are gonna take the chance to watch this shit please do it illegally and download cause you're better off going to prison than watching or paying to watch this shit. The opening scene gives off the appearance of a semi decent film, then it turns into high school fuckin' musical where the film decides to revolve around a group of whiney ass teens. As if we thought teen horror couldn't get any worse huh? Of course with the group of teens we have guess who????? Token the corny black guy who they clearly show has brass knuckles and says the most unusual line after being punked out by the school jock "I'd like to put a chainsaw through his face" or something like that. Guess what???? HE GET'S TOO. Now that would work in a comedy cause it'd be a joke, but come on now a serious horror flick? It gets better, one of the worse and yet memorable scenes is the post party scene where one of the girls is still trapped in the house and being chased by a zombie, her lil group of friends run into the house being chased by a horde of zombies, struggle to keep the door closed, see the girl and the one zombie following her and exit through the same door they entered and we just struggling to keep closed from a horde of dead. Okay again if this were a comedy it would be funny. But this were meant to be a serious film, and if it were meant to be comedy it still failed. Trust me you can get your fix of gore anywhere else cause there isnt much to be impressed by here. The fetus scene i thought was kinda cool, kind caught me off guard in the first place seeing that it's mind you a prego in a party were ppl are smoking and drinking and so on, who mind you doesn't look to prego to begin with, who is suddenly attacked by the one and only zombie there, which sure in a party of about 30 ppl jocks included you would think maybe someone would've had the balls to fight that one zombie off after the first attack but no they all run. Another memorable and bad scene, the city sequence. We all love suspense and build ups and such cause it keeps us watching. But if this scene we trying to achieve that it failed. For us that have seen many a zombie film, we all know once it hits a city are it'll spread out like a plague and chaos would be everywhere so on and so forth. Not here, the city is quiet, clean, and not a single soul nor zombie in sight. That is until our group of protagonist stop and get out of the vehicle and suddenly a group of zombies come from the direction the just came from. Funny,huh? You think they'd be driving around one minute saying "there's something wrong where is everyone" to "hey there's ppl behind us i see them in the review mirror". But then again it's only a movie no one can spot a huge flaw like where the hell did a horde of undead just suddenly emerge from when they should of seen the bastards in the city roaming freely in the first place. "IT'S A FUCKING CITY WHERE'S THE CHAOS" Another shitty scene, when they decide to gather into the high school, yes the school. Seems like a good idea, until the find out the school had been thwarted with the undead as well, who mind you are mostly laying around on the gym floor and in the most predictable of manners sequentially rise. WTF? How can you can more original than that right? Bull shit fucking ass raping donkey dick sucking puss fucks. Another amazingly bad error -seeing this film itself is the worst error of all- is when the explanation come in, it seems the town were there as a government experiment or something, because the government wanted to raise the dead to life in order to have the undead legion fight the wars for the living so we don't lose any of our own. See that i like, "WHEN I SAW THE FIRST TIME IN RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD" All and all do yourself the favor dont watch it, i mean hell some like it and it may be your type of flick but, the script is unintelligible, the cinematography a la 28 days is excruciatingly bad, the acting.... the character development? i can go on. Trust the majority, don't watch. Unless of course you only have a choice of this and house of the dead then i say watch this 50 times over any one of Uwe Bowel's film. Yes i meant to spell it like that. So it shows this isn't the worst flm but still pretty bad, after all i think they worst movie i've ever seen i'd leave nameless =cough cough Tower of blood cough cough= well wether you agree or not this is y review :-P
I thought it was ok. yea so it looked low budget and bad acting but the gore was fantastic. i love that kind of stuff!!!! it turns me on!!! ~*~megan~*~
*smacks Mr. Disgusting on the nose with a rolled up newspaper*
NO! That's a bad mr. disgusting... you do not give crap movies a review that good...I said NO! *smack*
Waste of time... waste of money... the only clever and redeeming thing was the baby eating scene... and even that was just worth a chuckle or two... such crap...
Looked low budget, acting sucked across the board, remedial dialogue, shitty make-up/special FX, editing sucked...actually the best part of this film was when it finally ended, and even that was a lunchbag letdown. I guess they couldnt think of a plausible conclusion so they just decided to stop filming and go back to the writing board to finish it.
First off, this movie sucked more wieners than a gay porno. The hero of the movie was a black guy... ha ha ha, last time I checked it wasn't about a slam dunk contest. The only thing stupider than this movie is my dumb ass for paying 12 bucks for it. Somebody owes me money!
For a low budget film, this was alright. The gore was pretty awesome, and some of the zombie makeup was excellent.
However.
Aside from the special effects, there was nothing amazing about Automaton Transfusion. The story was dry and poorly written. The acting was horrible. Most of all, however, the camera work was really, really bad. I can not stress this enough. The quality of the shots looked like someone with a Sony handycam had worked on the project. The shots were extremely jerky, but not in a good "Cloverfield" or "Blair Witch Project" sort of way. I thought the DVD was skipping for most of the beginning of the film.
Over all: This movie had potential for greatness, but fell short due to shoddy camera work, bad acting, and a poorly conceived plot. If you are going to see this film, watch it for the over-the-top low budget gore and soundtrack. I think there were two good songs.
Completely amazing for such a low budget film. Though the cameras were pretty crappy they were used very well and gave off a very unique and intense filming style. Special effects were fantastic also, this is one of the most brutal movies I've ever seen and it kicked ass all the way through. Only bad things about the movie were the acting and the title, but what can you expect from a low budget horror film? Anyways, independant filmmakers should definately watch this just to see how far good cinematography and special effects can take you.
There were some small details that were very good about this movie. Such as the fact that I know the next two sequels could probably not be as bad as this one. Therefore I will not be watching those. Here are the problems I have with this movie. Yea the special effects were pretty sweet for their budget. That acting was fu**ing trash. They should have actually tried the actors out before hand. (pissed of token black guy with brass knuckles or your overly obnoxious dying teacher that screams like an infant that needs the tit) My biggest problem with this movie was the fact that......
*******SPOILER ALERT*******
They finally get to a slightly entertaining part of the movie and it says to be continued.....
Is this an afternoon fu**ing special on the Disney channel? Oh because I thought I paid good money to see a movie and not some stupid scene kid festival with no ending. It is 1/3 of a movie.....it should have been 1/3 the price.
It is 1/3 as good as the Bloody-Disgusting quote on the front says it is. Fu** this stupid movie in its stupid a**. It was a disgrace to zombie movies.
Note to the Writer/Director: Better actors, better script, better gore, no wierd screaming noises when a zombie gets pissed and if you were trying to make a funny zombie film....take some notes from Braindead(Dead Alive).
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Great zombie movie, great low budget film.
The only thing I didn't like is the little title card at the ending, nobody likes endings like that (but I guess that'll be remedied by the sequel)
If i had bough this direct form Stephen Miller's website i would have been stoked. As this has been given a release form DIMENSION EXTREME and hyped as the next big independent feature i was disappointed. I hated the SCREAM-esque high school stuff and the exposition for the existence of the zombies. From the characters emergence from the garage tooled up to the ending it's pretty good but a bit of a drag until you get there. I'd still watch the sequel as i think Miller will learn a lot on his next feature.
When I bought this film I originally thought that BusyBuy was selling it for $4.99 so I thought what the hell. I get to the regester and buy the film and a few other it's. Unknowingly, I paid $14.99, the one had faded from the tag. Once again I said what the hell. I watch the film and found it ok but not worth the money. I loved the gore, still could have been more. The acting was over the top but managable.
~~~Spoiler~~~
The draw back is at the end, "To Be Continued..." there is know ending.
i loved the movie. it was excellent for an independant film. insense, extremely creative. the only this that was aggravating was the end....does any one know if they are actually making another?
get back to me
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