Autumn

I just watched this movie and I thought it was so bad it was almost good... Almost. I appreciate that it's an independent production and filmed on a tight budget but this was truly awful.

Let's face it, zombie films are a done deal now. There are so many awesome zombie films in existence today that you would have to do something pretty amazing to add to the genre and this is no where near. Most of it is just unintentionally hilarious, the zombies are so lame they make Michael Jackson's Thriller look scary and the acting is so bad it's like watching porn but without the sex.

I have never read the book (I didn't even know of it's existence till a few hours ago) but if any of the comments I've read about it on IMDb are anything to go by then I'm willing to bet that this pile of garbage wont live up to it.

Save yourself the trouble.

I am generally a fan of zombie flicks, many of which are low budget and most of which will not be regarded as cinematic masterpieces. This film, however, is the worst piece of garbage that I have ever seen. I know that phrases like this are used too liberally on IMDb, so believe me that I am using the phrase as appropriately as possible.

The sound engineer must be deaf. The director (if there was truly a director) should permanently resign himself from film-making. The actors although terrible should probably not be blamed because the sense is that the script and directing sealed their fate before the first line of dialogue was spoken.

The editing is horrendous. It's so bad that in many parts of the movie, you can't really tell what's going on because of the atrocious scattering of clips.

There really is no excuse for this piece of rotting manure. Budget is not the issue. I could make a better movie than this for the price of a used lawnmower.

Skill and talent are the ingredients that are missing from the start. Money can't buy those and unfortunately for those involved in this film, they will never possess either.

I was just looking around on Netflix for something to watch and the description seemed interesting. I usually love low budget zombie flicks. I mean, Night of the Living Dead was low budget and turned out to be a classic.

What was I getting myself into? I yawned so many times through this film, it just wasn't interesting at all. I thought it might have a great storyline, but that didn't happen either. The acting was what I expected though, so no big deal there. Not much action at all, which usually isn't that important if there's a storyline.

This film had nothing to keep me interested and I wouldn't recommend anyone actually paying money to buy this. But, if you want to watch a horrible low budget film, this is the one for you.

Sometimes I watch movies with David Carradine and think it's a shame that this will be part of his legacy. This is one of those films. Not that I was ever a huge Carradine fan, but it gives you an idea of how I feel about this film. I feel bad for an actor known for largely being in mediocre-at-best films because he was in it. And even then, not for very long. Also, while I'm thinking about it, I think it's great to more away from the traditional zombie story every now and then but can we please stop pretending like this whole "everyone has a virus except for a few people" thing is new and fresh? The end result is the same as any old zombie movie so knock it off.

What you essentially have here is the old small group of survivors who band together and dig in whilst under constant zombie attack. Well...not so much attack as constant zombie presence. I will give the movie props for one thing...I liked the way the zombies sort of evolve from just being corpses to rudimentary movement to being able to actually comprehend things. Of course, that doesn't excuse a plot line that has virtually everyone in the country dropping dead simultaneously. I'm not sure what disease model they were working off of, but that would have to be one hell of a virus. And I don't normally pick on technical aspects of movies, but the audio in this was terrible. Maybe it was just the copy I had, but everything that wasn't speech sounded loaded up with reverb. It was downright distracting and, let's face it, this movie didn't need any more strikes against it.

All said and done, you've seen this same type of film done better with less. It's not awful, it just fails to really do much of anything. All of the characters pretty much fail to make you concerned about their well-being and the story itself just sort of drags along without for almost 2 hours...much longer than it needs to be. I won't say you should avoid it...that's your call...but I'm certainly not going to endorse it.

I am a fan of zombie movies but honestly, it's been a while since i got to see a good one. This one's pretty OK but could have been a lot better:

• story evolves pretty slow, and is predictable at most points; also, the main events in the movie are poorly connected to form a smooth storyline; Also, most of the stuff seems to be happening towards the end of the film.

• acting is decent

• makeup is OK - zombies look real

• special effects are disastrous - the most advanced special effect is made by "fast-forwarding through the scene"

• Horrible SOUND!!!! it has scenes where the actors are talking but you can't hear what they are saying because of the background music that is too loud (and i'm not talking about the scenes where it is obvious that the voices have been intentionally covered by the background music).