Automaton Transfusion
by Steven C. Miller
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Actor: Juliet ReevesDirector: Steven C. Miller
Brand: WEI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 80565
Studio: Weinstein Company
Product features:
- Three teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non-stop ride through the swamps, forests, blood and ZOMBIES! Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR Age: 796019805650 UPC: 796019805650 Manufacturer No: 80565
DVD Reviews of Automaton Transfusion
DVD Review: EVERYTHING YOU WOULDN'T EXPECT FROM AN INDEPENDENT HORROR FILM.
Summary: 2 Stars
"One of the best zombie films in decades"... ... "The Holy Grail of true independent horror films"...
These are the notations on the DVD cover. Excuse me if I think "Night of the Living Dead" or "Evil Dead" still stand on the altar of independent horror icons. In fact, "Automaton Transfusion" has none of the endearing qualities that make independent horror so compelling; original story, new twist, a surprise or two and perhaps a little hint of "off-beat". I'm actually challenged to think of anything NOT derivative about this film. That said; if you've never seen a zombie horror film then perhaps some of this film's qualities might work for you. For the zombie veterans, you'll know where I'm coming from. Let me dismember this film so that I'm clear.
-SHAMEFUL LACK OF AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT
How's that for hacking into the jugular? See if any of this sounds familiar to you;
-Government experiment to keep dead soldiers fighting goes awry.
-Kill by head shots and infection by bites and scratches.
-Dead eat the living.
-The zombies can run fast.
-Use of a chainsaw to fight zombies.
I would bet you're familiar with about a dozen films that contain these ideas. I'm actually ok with that. George Romero's Zombie rules have been used pretty much as standard guidelines for decades. Fast zombies have been a trend for about the last 10 years or so. Chainsaws have become a standard horror convention. All of these ideas appear in plenty of good to excellent horror films. The problem here is that those films added some sort of new twist to the genre or were wildly entertaining. "So what's the big deal" you might say.
-WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Empathize with the film makers of "Automaton Transfusion" for a moment. Imagine that you've spent months, perhaps years, scraping together money so that you can put your blood and sweat into your labor of love; an independent horror film. You gather a rather large cast of unknown but competent actors. You actually have a large enough budget to pull off decent gore. You've scored some nice locations and have a clue about film making. At this point I say "good for you Steven, Bill and Mark. But why the heck did you waste your time with this derivative, unimaginative story!?". There is nothing about this film that makes me standup and take notice. I've seen it all before with the only difference being that I saw it in better films.
-VISUALLY SPEAKING
I found this film annoying to watch. I don't know what technique was used but, whatever it was, it was over used. I've noticed this technique in other films, usually used during action sequences to increase the sense of confusion. You might know the look; intense contrast with a strange and jerky frame rate so that everything looks like it's moving in a frenetic and confusing way, sort of a low quality video look. This film uses this technique throughout which just got irritating. At least there is a good effort put into the gore which did at least add some intensity. In case you were wondering, there is not enough sex or nudity to even mention it.
-THE DVD
In addition to those totally misleading quotes on the cover there is a totally misleading image of a half zombie crawling around (which would have been a step up from anything else they did in this film) however it never happened. The "Transfusion" part of the title doesn't make any sense either. Besides my qualms with the packaging this is a decent DVD. Included are deleted scenes, a rather rough "making of", some music videos, commentary track and a short film that was made in 48 hours for a film festival that lead to this film getting made. The short film was actually more intriguing than "Automaton Transfusion".
-TRANSFUSION CONCLUSION
If you've never seen a zombie film then this will seem really intense for you. However, if you've seen "Night of the Living Dead", "Evil Dead", "Return of the Living Dead" or just about any other zombie film then this is a waste of time. You won't get anything really new out of it and the story has nothing going on that will grab you as new or especially entertaining. As a mild spoiler I will tell you that the ending is a "to be continued" which is just ludicrous since so few will commit to actually watching a sequel to a bad film. In a vacuum it might have merit despite the annoying visual style. However, we tend to watch movies in rooms filled with air.
Gordity.......3.0 stars
Visuals........2.0 stars
Acting.........3.5 stars
Originality....1.0 stars
Average.......2.3 stars
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