So, you liked 28 Days Later? Enter Automaton Transfusion

I can be picky with my horror movies. I mean, there's bad, and then there's, well, bad. Take Bloodrayne 2, for instance (yes Uwe Boll will be back at it again with Kristanna Loken to make a followup to the flop that was Bloodrayne). Where's the real horror in that? You tell me.

First in a series of three, Automaton Transfusion is the story of three high school seniors fighting off zombies from the dead. What more do I need? It was filmed in nine days on a $50, 000 budget. It has been compared very, very closely to 28 Days Later; and was filmed in digital video as well.


"[Steve] Miller's film follows three teens who 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.

But that's just the short run of the mill; in the early '70s, when everyone in America was worrying about what was going on in Vietnam, the United States Army was secretly developing a way to reanimate the dead. The hope was to have the dead fight instead of the living, but the experiments were shut down when the reanimated corpses were unable to control their hunger for human flesh. Thirty years later, the army has decided to reopen the project. Grover City, because of its remote location, would be the home of their main testing facilities. Without warning the experiments go horribly wrong in Grover City and the DEAD are now on the rampage, eating everyone in sight. With the town overtaken by zombies, a group of high school seniors take it upon themselves to fight back and find a cure for this deadly disease."

I'm REALLY psyched for this.

Here's some links:

Official Site Here
Review from Bloody-Disgusting.com
Interview with Steven C. Miller
Wikipedia article

Watched the trailer on MySpace... it might be cool. But it looks like the three high schoolers are typical jocks, which is sorta boring.

Well, lets hope the hype doesn't kill it. 28 days later was supposed to be the scariest zombie movie EVAR, and it was ok. Gotta love the fact that this was shot with some affordable DV camcorders and probably edited on a Mac. The makeup probably cost more than they spent on tapes.

I generally hate horror movies, basicly because they usually focus on gore instead of a good plot, although I did like 28 days later so I guess I'll check this out.

yeah, and the thing is, I don't think a major distributor has picked this up, and I think they are going to try and distribute it themselves; they certainly haven't been able to advertise it, except for the net and word of mouth. Of course, if it's good, that's all you'll need. The review at Bloody-Disgusting was great-it's been screened once at a horror film festival.

Why does everybody write about 28 Days Later like it was some kind of indie flick? It had a budget of 5,000,000.00 British pounds for chrissakes.


Automation Transfusion looks okay.. but the fact that the trailer says that it's the horror movie that's going to "define a generation" pisses me off.

No kidding. Every generation a horror film comes along that "defines its culture"? Wha? And somehow this is it? What kind of crap is that? My brain is forcing me to dismiss this movie for fear that the same person who wrote that unbelievable tripe wrote the script.

Comedy aside, I still think Shaun of the Dead is the best zombie flick out there.