if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

"Automaton Transfusion" mostly dispenses with such little things as story in this all out assault on your senses. A ferocious zombie epidemic (which does get an explanation late in the movie) occurs, and a small group of high school students flee for safety.That's pretty much all you need to know. Some horror fans may praise this blessedly brief bit of nonsense (76 minutes all told) for a breakneck pace, lots of action, the requisite onslaught of gore, and for having zombies that pursue their quarries at full speed. These elements may be more appreciated if only the whole thing weren't so derivative. There is nothing here that people haven't seen before; only unless they are die hard aficionados of zombie cinema should they even bother with this. (Even so, some viewers may be bored.)The largely stereotypical characters are mostly annoying and aren't fleshed out at all. The performances from the no name cast are no more than passable. Director / writer / editor Steven C. Miller appears on screen as a professor. The soundtrack is often overcome by hard pounding rock and metal music. The makeup effects are variable; sometimes there are good gore gags. The editing, and a camera that often refuses to stand still, merely serve to make things incoherent.If the only thing you watch zombie movies for is the flesh munching, then perhaps you'll find some value in all of this.This ends with a cliffhanger setting up a (belated) sequel.Five out of 10.

This movie is so inept on so many levels, its only use is to study how cheap production values defeat all aspects of a film.The entire soundtrack-- and I mean dialogue, effects, and music-- must have been re- dubbed in a metal bathroom. (One person is credited with about 90% of the audio work.) The flat digital visuals look like they were shot on old 8mm stock with lights from a local hardware store. The attempts at blood-and-guts gore are entirely amateur. And the already flaccid script did not even merit an ending.Maybe some real zombie completists will want to see this to explore the truly worst of the genre. I wanted to see it as a teen horror film, and it offers nothing worthwhile in that regard.I enjoy recommending films that are bizarre or extreme, but this is just stupid.However... You might want to watch the "making of doc" that is included on the DVD, because it shows the sincere mania that is grassroots filmmaking. The people behind the film had delusions of grandeur, and so much more ambition than ingenuity. And again, you realize how any positive aspects of making the film-- and it looks like they did have fun making it-- are ruined by the failed production that came out.

It's hard to rate these ultra-low budget movies. Should we take into account that they were made for mere pennies, or that every problem the filmmaker's encountered were multiplied by the fact they had little to no money.... The easy answer is no. A movie should entertain on merit. An audience should have no extra obligation to enjoy a movie just because the filmmakers didn't have the proper money to make it. That said, it's pretty impressive what some of these filmmakers turn out. And having finally watched Automaton Transfusion it's no surprise that director Steve C. Miller has moved on to bigger and better projects.Is this movie good? Well, kinda. The acting, like in most of these movies, is hit and miss, mostly miss. The script is the same. Some good ideas, but also some really bad dialog and uneven pacing. The direction is surprisingly solid and there is one particularly inspired piece of gore.One other thing, something seems to be wrong with the image. it stutters throughout. I actually sent my DVD back and got a new one because I though something was wrong with DVD. I did this twice. All three disks suffered the same issue. Weird.

Oh another zombie movie that blew chunks.Imagine that.This movie promised the world on the DVD box but little did I know that this was another of those 8 Days of Horror or whatever they call it.Any of those movies I've saw were awful and this one was no exception.First off I've no idea what the title means.It wasn't explained.After seeing this puke pile I'm guessing this homemade piece of junk was just given some weird mysterious nonsense title to give it a bit of class or mystique or whatever.Anyway the mean old US government was doing more experiments in some little town on dead bodies to try and bring them back to life so they could fight our wars for us.Seriously.That was the reason given for this wave of zombies.The experimental zombies were released as a test and naturally and of course the experiment goes wrong.These zombies were made to be stronger and faster and able to think by the experiments so it was a bad decision to let these things loose on purpose it would seem.Zombies run amok while a group of teens,the only ones left alive,run around trying to stay away from them.Boy this thing stunk to high heaven.The acting was horrible.The script was worse.Special effects were clunky and badly done and just sort of thrown in here and there as opposed to sort of happening naturally during the course of the movie.These zombies were strong enough to rip heads and legs off yet seemed to be stopped by someone closing a door and turning the little lock on the knob.The continuity from scene to scene was a mess.The teens would run out the front door when a zombie came in the back way yet just a second ago they had ran in that very same front door with a swarm of zombies right behind them.The action jumped from scenes that looked to be out in the middle of nowhere to city scenes with no explanation of how the characters got transplanted so fast.The camera was slashed around so fast during the fight scenes it was just impossible to follow what was happening.I eventually gave up trying.There's nothing really positive to say about this clunker.The info I read about this thing says it was shot in 9 days.From the way this mess turned out I would have guessed 4 days. This pile of garbage even ends with the words "To be continued..." on the screen.It felt like I was watching a two part episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies" or something,like when the Hillbillies went to England when they learned they owned a castle over there and they just couldn't get all the Jethro fighting a dragon jokes in a one 30 minute episode,I see the reason for doing a TV show like that but who ends a movie like that?And to beat it all I read there was a Part 2.Anymore no matter how bad and unwatched the first one was they always convince themselves someone wants a Part 2 of it.This was just another homemade piece of junk from people who have little talent for horror movies.Too bad today's technology is so easy that everyone who used to think they could write the next great American novel now thinks they can make the next great zombie movie.Just because you got a camera and you can do a little CG on a computer doesn't mean you got any movie making talent.