GL84 After being subjected to a zombie bite and becoming infected with the infection, a man joins the ravenous crowds of zombies swarming London joining in their activities before finding family members who try to turn him back to his normal self before he can engage his normal zombie behavior on them.This might end up being the most boring zombie film ever, despite the fact that the film starts off immediately with a zombie attack and keeps them on-screen for the duration of the movie. This is due to the film's incredibly hair-brained decision to make the film from the zombie's point-of-view, making it nearly wordless and free of dialog for the majority of the film. While that does make for a lot of great attack scenes that provide plenty of gore here as we see the swarms rip people apart and so on, it deteriorates into a series of him stumbling around before meeting someone else and it gets old fast. Then it gets to the parts at the house where they try to rehabilitate him, and the sentimentality on display totally erodes any semblance of horror it could've had, and it's just an extremely tiresome affair without sustaining any interest whatsoever. A mostly useless zombie movie overall.Rated R: Graphic Violence and some language.

Thomas Aitken Colin suffers from several major flaws (and no, I'm not talking about the zombie virus that plagues the main character - ba doom boom chish!), and these flaws undo what would have been an otherwise praiseworthy piece of indie film making.I'm not going to critique the cinematography, because at the end of the day this was a low budget indie film, and it wasn't too bad when considered in that light - however there are other problems with Colin that being a low budget indie film is no excuse for.Firstly, it's simply far too long for the story it tells - there's no way it needed to take 1 hour and 37 minutes to tell this story. A lot of extra time is wasted on pointless scenes and events that feel far too long, and don't do anything to advance the plot. I almost turned this film off at the 30 minute mark because it was just starting to feel like a series of totally unrelated, and totally unconnected zombie attack/fight scenes that were merely there to pad out the film and to out-gore Romero.Secondly, large chunks of this film just don't seem to make coherent sense (remember, generally speaking, when it comes to film making, what appears on screen shouldn't require an off-screen explanation). Why were all those people in a house full of zombies? What was up with that serial killer with the basement full of zombies, and why would he let one just walk right past him? Why does Colin attack some people, including his own family, but then walk right past that serial killer guy at the top of the basement? Why does the girl who died in the basement look like the same girl who Colin was bitten by, and whom he killed? Why was all that camera time devoted to the leader of the violent mob at the end of the film, when he had no actual importance to the plot, and was never seen in the film again (such camera attention would normally be the precursor to an important reveal).Thirdly, the acting was terrible in places - and I'm talking here about the people pretending to be zombies, which is hardly something that requires Oscar winning acting talent.A valiant attempt at something original, but unfortunately it was derailed by mistakes that mom and pop home-film makers, rather than indie ones, should be making.

yeodawg A quintessential ZOMBIE movie deals with man's dealing with man during this great tragedy. This one deals with man's dealing with the undead they feel to realize is not man during this great tragedy. The I AM LEGEND (OMEGA MAN, LAST MAN EARTH, I AM OMEGA) was supposed to be about how man was the bogey man haunting the undead but it turned into about how charming Vincent price, Charleston Hesston, and Will smith were and how we can watch them for hours fumbling around. The same with COLIN I liked him, I really did and I was disappointed he didn't do what I wanted him to do. In order for a scary movie to be scary you have to care for n the victims. I cared for him and when the ZOMBIE slayers showed up I was rooting for COLIN the ZOMBIE. In the movie we watch as Renato lusts after Malena and fails to come to her aid after several trying times and rapes. And that's how I felt about COLIN especially after he shuffle into a serial killer basement who's several blinded dead victims re-animates after succumbing to the zombie plague. COLIN bites his sister and there's an intervention. Bottom line the cinematographer sucks but it is well written and well acted. They answer every question every question. Lets just say the zombie apocalypse is the wrong time to find out you're girls cheating.

Paul Andrews Colin is set in London where a mysterious virus has been been bringing the dead back to life as flesh eating zombies, the city is in disarray & panic. Colin (Alastair Kirton) is an ordinary bloke, unfortunately Colin's been bitten by a zombie & thus is infected. Poor old Colin is doomed to die & then come back as a mindless flesh eating zombie. Colin has to adjust to being a zombie & deal with all those nasty humans who try to kill him, this is his story...This English production was shot, edited, written, produced & directed by Marc Price & I am finding all the positive comments absolutely baffling as Colin is surely one of the inept & tedious films ever made. For a start lets a get a couple of things straight, Colin is not the first film to be told from a zombie's point of view neither it is the first film to try & create sympathy for it's flesh eating undead despite what some may say. Where to start? To be fair the concept of a zombie film told from a zombie's perspective is cool but with such a low budget & very little talent on show the concept was doomed to die as we get endless scenes of Colin stumbling about doing nothing in particular. Occasionally Colin meets some humans who are being attacked by other zombies or are themselves attacking zombies, we never meet anyone or learn anything about anyone or the situation they find themselves in. Colin doesn't seem to take sides, neither the zombies or the people are seen as heroes or villains either way. Nobody says a sentence for like half an hour into the film, Colin doesn't speak until the very end in which he has a flashback revealing what happened at the start which should have been at the start rather than the end as it might have made us relate to Colin a bit more or emphasise with his transformation from ordinary bloke to mindless zombie. With zero character development or any sort of plot other than Colin wandering around the odd London street it's hard to see why Colin is getting so much praise. It's not a study of society in a crisis situation as we never see the wider society, only a few random people & the subplot about Colin's sister taking him home goes nowhere & like everything else here feels like padding. At over an hour & a half long Colin surely is one of the most uneventful & dullest films ever released, no character's & no plot basically add up to one long bore where the initial intriguing premise becomes old after about two minutes.Right, rumour has it that Colin cost £45 to make (about $72) & all I have to say is where did all the money go? Obviously shot in people's houses & without permission on a council estate somewhere (central London is never seen) on a crappy hand-held camcorder (I think my Samsung Wave mobile phone HD camera can record clearer & sharper video than seen in Colin) Colin looks awful in every aspect. From the terrible lighting to the annoying shaky camcorder crap, whenever anything happens on screen it seems like it was shot by someone have a seizure or epileptic fit since the jerkiness is truly hideous & serves no artistic or practical function. There are scenes that are so badly lit, so dark & so shaky that it's literally impossible to tell what's happening, that cannot be right & Colin is just one long eyesore. The make-up effects are poor, there's some fake blood splashed around & some bits of meat probably brought from a local butcher for the zombies to chew on but there's no proper special effects here.Probably edited on a PC or in camera Colin really is nothing more than a home movie, & a bad one too. Colin is a mindless zombie so the guy playing didn't have too much to do, the odd person that pops up are pretty terrible.Colin is a film that I hated, I thought it was an ugly eyesore of a film that bored me to senseless & wasted a potentially decent idea. Maybe with an actual budget & actual filmmakers at the helm the concept may one day be turned into something good. Despite all the glowing praise I struggle to find one aspect of Colin that I liked.