Sadly Over-hyped

Fresh and Exciting

Best movie of this year hands down!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A schoolteacher heads to the country to survive a zombie-apocalypse.Based on the indie novel by David Moody, director Steven Rumbelow's microscopic budget atmospheric film that while doesn't evoke the emotion of the likes of The Battery (2012) it never the less has a lot of novelty to it thanks to Dexter Fletcher's performance as Michael. It's more of mournful character study rather than a full on zombie assault. Don't expect too much from this choppy produced slow burner and you may be surprisingly pleased.Autumn is worth watching for its serious tone and Fletcher's sombre performance.

When I read the summary to this movie I thought that it would be a descent SciFy, but after watching it, I don't think a 1 is a low enough rating for it. They didn't explain anything, and it was just everywhere.Only watch this movie if it is to torture someone, because honestly, it is worse than the Chinese dripping torture. I don't think I can write ten lines about this movie so here I go on talking about absolutely nothing that has to do with anything. Maybe if you stare hard enough at the screen, it will distract you from the fact that I am blabbing on about nothing.

This movie isn't terrible, but it definitely has "student project" written all over it. The director tries to be artsy at times, but it mostly just comes off as cheap and transparent. The plot line is a bit dull, and it seems the film is trying to convey the inner struggles of the survivors through telepathy and body language - which turns out not to be a great screen concept. In the end, this movie could have been made a silent film.The movie follows the classic "everyone dies what do we do now?" concept, but the only characters that are even vaguely likable and interesting are drowned in a sea of mediocre acting by their co actors. I'm referring to Carradine and Fletcher, who are trying to save their colleagues from a fate worse than being eaten alive by the living dead - being eaten alive by armchair movie critics.The character Emma, played by Lana Kamenov, is absolutely mind numbingly annoying. I blame part of it on the script, but everything from the delivery of the lines to how she moves on camera is unimpressive. Watching Kamenov and Fletcher together is actually funny at times; she makes Fletcher seems like one of the best actors of our era in their dialogues.Tolson does a fairly decent job but his overly stoic character adds nothing much of interest to the plot line - also here most of his character development comes by telepathy and grim facial expressions. When his character finally has a burst of chattering he is paired with Carradine, and shadows do seem darker when the sun is bright - that's all I can say about that.In terms of following the "Survival Horror" genre, the movie isn't very interesting. We are thankfully free from most Shock-and-Awe type of horror, instead it is a more seat-twisting type of building suspense that never really quite climaxes. The zombie make-up is quite decent, and the zombie breed, albeit not fueling may particularly action-filled sequences, is somewhat interesting. The post-apo details are not very well fleshed out, and we don't learn much about the world as a whole. The movie felt like a really long pilot episode for a TV series.The sound track and mixing is very bizarre, carrying long horror music loops running even though the characters are clearly in no danger, viewers expect something to happen, but we are abruptly cut to a new scene.Footage is obnoxious at times. Autumn... leaves falling... people dying.. OK, we get it, the leaves represent people. It seemed the director loves shooting in the dark, but it doesn't make the movie any more suspenseful.In the end, it felt like the movie lacked a direction. Once you think the film is going to pick up, it lets you down, and suddenly ends. I did like Fletcher's and Carradine's performances though.

I must say I am deeply concerned about the credibility of many of the reviewers of this film. (Please don't review movies if you haven't watched them, or watched a pirated version, or have only seen the trailer). To call this movie one of the worst movies ever made is a grave injustice. In fact, if I wanted to waste my time with your insufferable reviews, I would go through and give all of you an unhelpful marks, for your comments about this film. Many of you clearly didn't even watch the film, based on the things you said, and I can only guess that many of the reviewers used pirated versions rather than the version that I saw. Another problem is that many of you are commenting about this film who dislike the genre in the first place.They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. That is usually what happens with zombie movies nowadays. This film was creative and original. It tried some new things, and didn't just follow the typical formula.Sure it didn't have a huge budget, the lighting was off at times, but it was overall a very original well done film. In fact, some of the cinematography was downright haunting and beautiful. This movie is right up there with Colin as one of the best lower budget and most original zombie movies.I should also let all the haters know that I watch every zombie and infected movie. I consider myself as close to an expert as they come. This is my favorite Genre. From Night of the living dead to Colin, Ponty Pool, Day of the dead (1985), 28 days later, Rec2, Cemetery man, White zombie, Dead Snow, Tokyo Zombie, Fido, Zombie, Deadgirl, Return of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and on and on, I have seen virtually all of them and for any serious zombie fan, this deserves to be given your attention.I must apologize to the actors and filmmakers, that there are so many actual zombies out there in the real world reviewing this film. I will give this film a 9 out of 10.