I Zombie: The Chronicles of Pain

I was surprised when I first saw this film. I thought it'd be a mean-spirited, spurting gore-for-the-sake-of-gore filled romp. It's not. This first film from Fangoria isn't lighthearted, but it actually tries for sympathy...and gets it. Giles Aspen plays Mark, a man who is bit by a zombie while on some kind of scientific expedition. Slowly, he starts to crave human flesh and get horribly violent convulsions if he goes long enough without it. This creates the feeling that he is an unwitting killer, and not someone that WANTS to kill. His convulsions push him to kill, thus also eliminating the mean-spirited factor in this film. This film raises some questions, like "Why don't his victims come back from the dead?", but I didn't care. I think it's a good zombie film and well executed. It also has a good music score, which the director did. Now, don't take it the wrong way, there is gore, but none of it spurts out. It's just blood gel. It can be hard to find, but I found it at Hollywood Video to rent. Hollywood also carries the second film in the Fangoria movie series, Lady of the Lake, which I haven't seen yet, but plan to. I don't think it'll be as good as this, though.

This movie is very weird,It started like a good Night of the living dead and finished like a "Steel magonolias" kind of film,This guy gets bitten by a zombie and instead of fraking out and changing into a blood thirsty,Carcass human eating zombie in a matter of seconds he begins decaying just day by day,he just escapes from his old life and begins a new one as a Zombie, the masturbating scenes were not really necesary to make us feel bad about this guy but theyre disturbing. If you must check it out, if you have other choices please take them,this movie is not really that good so you better spend your money on original Zombie flicks, invest Romero. Ill give it a poor 7 out of 10 on Horror zombie masturbating films.

This is a low budget so don't expect anything flashy but the idea is very original. I see that others have already stated the plot so i'll just say that i like it as well and recommend it to any horror fan. It's good to see a recent horror film that is original and entertaining at the same time. And now i say to all "Go see Bubba Ho-Tep any way you can!"

Written, directed and edited by Andrew Parkinson, I Zombie: The Chronicles of Pain stars Giles Aspen as tragic PHD student Mark, who gradually succumbs to a degenerative disease after being bitten by a woman he encounters while on a field trip. Developing a hunger for human flesh, Giles is unable to return to the home he shares with his girlfriend Sarah (Ellen Softley), and so he does a runner, renting out a flat where he proceeds to document his slow transition into a rotting ghoul, which includes finding human victims for food.

Low budget zombie movies are ten a penny, but rarely do they offer much in the way of originality; it's always interesting to find something that attempts to breath new life into the tired genre. I Zombie: The Chronicles of Pain is one such film, an existential horror flick that provides a thought-provoking insight into the mind of a man doomed to a horrific existence; this alone qualifies it as a worthwhile effort for fans of the living dead—never mind the zombie masturbation scene that sees poor Giles literally pulling one off!

However, as different as this all is, the film isn't an entirely successful venture, suffering from an excruciatingly slow pace that makes it seem a lot longer than 79 minutes, a couple of weak performances, and not nearly enough gore for this particular viewer. Thankfully, the low budget aesthetic and technical shortcomings do nothing to detract further from the film's effectiveness—if anything, they help lend the film a much-needed sense of realism.

Parkinson's next film, Dead Creatures, would be a virtual rehash of I Zombie, albeit with multiple female 'zombies', indicating that the hardly prolific director was already struggling for fresh ideas.

5.5/10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.

I first thought this film was going to be entertaining because Fangoria made this movie. But I was definitely let down. This was one of the worst movies I've seen. I fell asleep through most of it because it was so boring and it should have been a documentary instead of horror. I had to watch it again to see the stuff I missed and I'm very glad I was asleep during that time because I could been traumatized for life.

I warn all horror fans, STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!