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automaton transfusion is the worst movie i've seen in a long long time. it may very well be the worst movie i've ever seen. in every regaurd this movie is an outright failure.
since its the equivalent of a highschool project, lets grade it:
title - F (has nothing to do with the film)
plot - D (the plot is a group of people try to survive a zombie infestation caused by...we learn in the last 10 minutes...the military's genetic tinkering to make human weaponry. there is nothing else to the movie...nothing! what little suggestions of subplots exists are abandoned entirely. bullies, father figures, military...its all filler.)
script - F (mostly its clear the director just said "ok, action....um...you're being chased by zombies...um...say something". of course there are scenes were a script was needed. you will notice these because the actors give flat readings of the lines or awkward and inappropriate emotional inflections like the first day of an acting class)
acting - F (not sub-par...BAD! over-the-top at points, inappropriate inflections, blatant reading of lines, etc. there is simply not a single moment in the movie with a hint of decent acting. i say this not to be grandiose...its simply true. also these are suppose to be highschool students; all of them are 20's to 30's maybe even older. they have tattoos, they use outdated terms like they have no clue what they mean, they pretend to be young again and it shows. their characterizations are bad stereotypes.)
camera work - D (not awful but barely a scene that you'd call a decent shot. almost all of the angles are bad. the quality skips around, the effects almost never make any sense...they are usually done to cover up other failures. like shaky choppy camera work during a attack scene because there was not a proper sequencing done.)
editing/post production - F (ok granted they didn't have much to work with but still. scenes don't necessarily connect together. one scene is quickly cut because an actor laughed as he was being pulled away by zombies. another should have been cut because its clear the actress is reading the lines from a paper. a lot of the scenes should have been cut because they're lousy. they might have ended up with a short film...but then we wouldn't have to sit through 1hr and 15mins of this awful bore. the fighting scenes are a mess. any scene that required a continuity is a mess. also, there are scenes were some sort've filter effect makes the people look almost cartoon-ish for absolutely no reason given the moments they describe. in fact there's some sort've effect over a lot of the dialog in the film which is bizarre and gives many moments a difficult inappropriate drama that seems oddly distant and dreamlike.)
special effects - C (some of the 'gore' elements are ok. they're nothing special but not poorly done. the best scene is a where one of the girls falls from a balcony and hits a ledge...nicely done except then she's floating in a pool without any blood when they show blood where she hit the ledge. whatever, at that point in the movie it was just nice to see something actually done decently)
ending - F (honestly it made me laugh out loud. if you're going to end the worst film ever made why not just end it and scroll "To be continued" across the screen. as if anyone would ever watch another part to this. nice.)
final - F (there is nothing good about this film. nothing.)
i've seen a lot of movies, i've seen a lot of bad movies. i've seen horror movies that fail, zombie movies that drug on and generally sucked. this is the worst of those. there is not a redeeming quality to any of this film.
cult status - never! i can appreciate movies that are "so bad they're good" but this can't even rise to that. theres a moment near the end where they run into the school gym and stop to read a bible quote thats hanging as a banner there. for a moment i thought this film was a religious film masquerading as a zombie movie...and honestly i would have been ok with that, it would have justified much of the poor quality of the film. but that scene is completely abstract to everything else in the movie, its never anticipated and never followed up, it has no purpose.
look at my list of dvds, its nearly a thousand at this point...full of guilty pleasures, cheese, some profound, some great, some effective etc. this is the worst dvd i own and couldn't even respect it enough to pawn off on someone else. i honestly may just throw it away.
pick up a camera, tell your friends to 'act', you'll accomplish equal or better than this almost assuredly. every person involved in this film should leave it off of their resumes if they ever want to work again. the fact that they allowed this to get out into the public tells me they're too stupid to achieve anything beyond this.
1/10
