Movie Monday V Part 2 Automaton Transfusion Edition
This movie is a new school look at the old school zombie genre. In my opinion this is the best zombie movie since the original Dawn Of The Dead. Don’t get me wrong there’s been some alright zombie movies since then but none as good as this.
Story:
A zombie outbreak in a small town strands Chris, Scott, and Tim at a small club concert venue. Jackie (Chris’ girlfriend) is at a party out at a random house in the woods and he has to go there to try to save her. He gets there and rescues her and takes her to their high school thinking it would be the safest place to go. They make it there but its not as safe as they hoped and most of the group pay for it with their lives. They eventually reveal how the zombies came to be but I’m not going to reveal it as I hate movie spoilers. All I will say is they leave it wide open for a Part 2 and I for one hope and pray they make it.
Casting:
Garret Jones stars as the metal music listening stoner main character Chris. Juliet Reeves is his “prep” cheerleader girlfriend Jackie. Next is my favorite character in the movie and not because we share the same name William Howard Bowman plays the character Scott. I say hes my favorite because at one point in the movie they have to pick up weapons to use against the living undead and his weapon of choice is a chainsaw. Rowan Bousaid is Tim the wise cracking guy and the guy who gives you the most laughs in this movie. Then there’s Ashley Elizabeth Pierce and Kendra Farner play the smoking hot preppy cheerleaders who are your typical bitchy characters you hope die early on in a movie. The same being said for Joel Hebners character Lance who is a preppy jock football player.
Visual Effects:
I have to admit that this is one of those movie I talked about in my Black Sheep review the blood is just really watery looking, however it doesn’t entirely ruin the movie for me. There are still tons of great gags in this movie one of my favorites and probably the most sickest is when a zombie rips a girls unborn baby right out of her stomach and eats it right in front of her. Right off the start of this movie is another of my favorites when a young man is pulled into one of those sliding tray things in the morgue but when he gets pulled in his body just folds up like an accordion. Speaking of accordion I never really mentioned soundtracks in any of my other reviews but this movie features a really good soundtrack sporting some very catchy rock and metal songs.
I’m going to introduce a new overall scoring system from this point in and it’s now going to be out of a 10 point rating.
Overall:
9.5 Zombie Limbs Out Of 10
By the way this movie was made in 9 days and with only $30,000 imagine how amazing it would be if they had more money and more time.
This will probally be my favorite zombie movie until maybe Diary Of The Dead I mean it can’t be as bad as Land Of The Dead
