City of Rott

City of Rott (2006) is a movie that I recently discovered on Tubi. The storyline follows an old man trying to survive a zombie apocalypse without getting infected. He needs some new shoes and food and will try to avoid both zombies and survivors.

This movie is directed, written and voiced by Frank Sudol (Dead Fury) in his directorial debut. The storyline for this picture is a lot of fun following an old man who spends all day arguing with his walker. The animation is as simple as it gets but entertaining and well done. There's a ton of worthwhile gore and I enjoyed both the the eating sequence and any time worms were involved. There's a sanitation team scene that's real good too. The dialogue is well written and better than it should be. The ending is a bit short, anticlimactic and could have been longer.

Overall, this is a worthwhile watch for horror fans who love gore and a few good chuckles. I would score this a 6.5-7/10 and strongly recommend it.

Frank Sudol has done an incredible job of making an animated movie by himself and it looks somewhat reminiscent of a Cannibal Corpse cover throughout. I was initially attracted to Sudol's artistic style but quickly became bored because of the repetitiveness of the movie. While this would have been fine as a 5 or 10 minute short, there just wasn't enough story to fill a movie length feature and it became almost unbearably boring to watch. I'm sure there will be those that watched it with friends and maybe under the influence of chemicals, they will have found it to be hilarious or entertaining but as I watched it sober and alone, I really felt it needed to have been a short feature only.

If you have not yet seen City of Rott, rent it before you decide to buy it. First let me tell you about City of Rott and its general storyline. You are introduced to Fred, an elderly man with a walker. You'll be confused right off the bat as to why hes speaking without moving his mouth all the time. You'll realize this is because he speaks to his walker. I found this very tiring to watch, as any time you do not see his face, you may get confused in mid sentence, who's actually speaking until someone is addressed. However, lets continue with..what is Fred doing? Fred's journey through out the entire 77 minutes will revolve around finding new slippers as he expresses early on, his current ones are aching his feet.

Now if you're a zombie movie fan or just like gore, you'll enjoy the countless zombie dispatches. The movie is meant to be funny as well, so those looking for a serious zombie movie probably should stay away..as if the fact it was animated didn't give this away anyhow.

The movie does take an interesting turn towards the end but unless I am ignorant or something, its a very stale end.

After it is all over with, I give this movie a 5 out of 10. It is not a terribly bad movie. It kept me interested through most of it. There were parts where hearing Fred speak constantly grew old and slightly annoying. The voice acting all together seemed pretty uninspired. Notably, a girl character's voice was not that of a girl and seemed like it was a man's voice with the pitch raised.

Zombie fans, take this with a grain of salt. Those who aren't, maybe this isn't for you.

I am both a zombie film fan (A la Romero, and Simon Pegg) and an animation buff. I'm also fairly picky. City of Rott seems to have been someone's kitchen sink project that managed to get enough distribution to find it's charmingly awkward way into my local Hollywood Video. I rented it with fairly low expectations, and wasn't terribly disappointed. When I looked at the box in the store, I guessed that C.o.R would be quirky, at times repetitive, uneven, and (shudder) possibly entirely Flash animation. It turns out I wan't terribly off base in my assessment (all points)...

The Good: It was great to see an angry, kooky "elderly" protagonist. There was enough in the way of Zombie-buff in-jokes (read the signs in the background- there's as much going on there at times as in the foreground) and silly, ham-handed social commentary to give me a few good giggles. I found it worth a watch.

The Bad: Man... 77minutes of average quality Flash-based animation...one (just one) interesting character...ooh..uhh... hmmm... did I mention the 77 minutes of quirky flash animation? A cludgy script with a few really brylllunt moments...could have said it better in under an hour.... crunchy industrial techno score ground out relentlessly until the bitter end...

My Verdict: Again... for fans of Zombiedom, worth 1 watch.

I can't after watching this movie decide if it is either good or bad (hence the 5 out of 10) The story is just pointless and the 77 minute long movie consists of nothing but blood and gore and some slow scenes which just makes you feel really weird. I can't in any way figure out what this movie is supposed to be good for. I didn't hate watching it but i didn't really enjoy it either. It's impossible to say if this movie will be a waste of your time since i think it completely depends on what kind of person you are or just how bored you are If the creator of this movie however makes another one I'm almost certain that i will check it out. There is after all something really special about City of Rott.