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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 city, woods, and schools. It was very hard for me to even see what was going on in 'Automaton Transfusion' thanks to Steven C. Miller's horrible direction and shaky cam that was all over the place. This is a low budget zombie film that doesn't quite understand what a Zombie film needs to be great, the acting was all over the place as well and the script that was probably written by Miller himself was also unbelievable horrendous to begin with. Plus alot of scenes were dark and couldn't even see anything properly. (0/10)
Fella_shibby
The effects were terrific, especially for a $30 grand budget. Rapid editing and shaky cam were a bit annoying at times. Extremely low budget indie horror flick. It makes for an enthralling and fast-paced horror adventure. At 75 minutes, the filmmakers pack in every bit of entertainment value.Saw it first in 2007. I rented the DVD after I saw the cover of a half zombie n Dimension extreme on it. Was better than new day of the dead (both films had fast running zombies).Even the crappy video quality didn't make me turn it off. What more interesting is that it took 9 days filming the whole movie. I thought for this amount of time, they did a great job shooting. Incredible energy thanks to hardcore metal music, incredibly over-the-top gore effects, and an awesomely impressive dedication to playing its horror/action straight. The opening morgue scene was awesome. Of course it had its cheesiness, its flaws, bad acting, zero plot but it's an extremely low budget indie man. It was entertaining with over the top gore n fast paced action. Director Steven C. Miller (Aggression scale, Under the bed, Silent night) did a fantastic job.
Scott LeBrun
"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.
boywithatoy
First of all, I am a regular reader of reviews here on IMDb and most of the time the ratings are a pretty good indication of what the film is like but how in the hell did this get 4 stars? I can only assume that the people involved in making this film all set up fake accounts and gave it high marks. I actually had to register on here so I could write this review because I felt it was my duty to make sure no-one else wastes 75 minutes of their life watching this!Normally when someone slates a film on here I take it with a pinch of salt - but this movie really does suck. I don't mind low-budget pieces of crap, for instance I quite like the Feast trilogy, but before I watched this I saw "MegaShark vs Giant Octopus" and that was 10 times better than AT and you can imagine how dump "MegaShark vs Giant Octopus" is. I don't mind the low budget grainy film, I can even stand the awful acting (which mainly consists of lots of running whilst pathetic girls scream and cry) but what I can't stand is MASSIVE plot holes. Like other people have said, there's one scene in particular that doesn't make any sense. The four main characters are in a garage and they go out head to head with the zombies armed with various weapons then all of sudden two of the characters seem to fall out of the sky into a lake (where did that lake come from?) and one of the characters wasn't even one of the four who is in the garage and I have no ideas who she is or where she came from!The are so many other plot holes too. The other main one is that we find out in the last 10 minutes of the film that it was an army experiment but there just happens to be a serum that makes you immune so the 2 remaining characters go after it (we find this out from an army dude who is "undercover" as a janitor yet he is in full army gear and drives around in an army jeep - yeah, good disguise dude!). This serum plot wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that in the whole film no-one is actually bitten by a zombie, they are all completely ripped apart so even if you had the serum it wouldn't matter as you'd be dead from being ripped apart! This also begs the question - "if everyone gets ripped apart, where did all these zombies come from?". That's also not to mention how all the zombies are teenagers - it's meant to be a whole town that has been taken over yet, apart from the main dude's Dad, we don't see one zombie over the age of 19. What is this? Children of the Corn? I wished it was. Also, these zombies can find their victims by smelling them - even in some scenes breaking through walls and floors to get to them so how come they can't find one girl when she is hiding under a table in the same room!And the ending? "To be continued"? I think the credit at the end was meant to say "we've run out of money and we need to return the camcorder to the media lab before lessons start on Monday".Seriously, trust me when I say don't waste your time with this movie.