Garrett Jones, Juliet Reeves, William Howard Bowman

The United States Army began developing a procedure to bring back the dead with the purpose of having them fight instead of the living. The testing takes a horrific turn and an experimental town quic...( read more  read more... )kly becomes overtaken by zombies. Three desperate high school students decide to fight back in a battle for survival. They go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.

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R, 1 hr. 20 min.

Directed by: Steven C. Miller

Release Date: October 18, 2006

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DVD Release Date: March 4, 2008

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  • November 6, 2009
    This movie is awful. Really really bad. In fact, I do believe it is the worst zombie movie I have ever seen. I am so glad now that I didn't see it at the 2006 Zombie Walk. The title and the mercifully short running time are the only good things about this film. It's stiffly writt...( read more)en, poorly acted, badly lit and shot on ugly film stock. The actors have no talent, the plot has no story, none of the characters are likable or even appropriately cast and the dialogue is robotic and unnatural. Even the gore effects, while displaying a certain level of inventiveness, are poorly executed and not for a second believable. Fuck, this movie is so bad, it's not even enjoyable. In fact, the only pleasure I got from watching this movie was envisioning the nasty things I was going to say about it in this review. What a waste. I had such high hopes for this, too.
  • November 2, 2008
    Hm...what to say. The Box promised never before seen gore and total gruesomeness...I was so looking forward to being completely grossed out, instead I was bored and extremely dissapointed. How sad. But for being independent it was ok and the ending for me made up for it all...tot...( read more)ally loved it! LOL
  • September 29, 2008
    This was so terrible that I struggled to switch this off, and I admit that I HAD to quit about 35 minutes in.
  • March 6, 2008
    If you're going to make an ultra low budget zombie flick and get noticed, this is probably the best way to do it. Not much originality or even acting talent on display, but plenty of hard edged, practical old school zombie gore. Delightful. Abrupt ending announcing (and presum...( read more)ing) a sequel will likely annoy some folks looking for resolution. This film simply stops.
  • May 12, 2008
    When did zombie movies have to be good to be considered good? Long before the days of Resident Evil, when 99% of zombie fans discovered zombies, zombie movies were treated much, much differently. We didn't have self proclaimed experts demanding that there be rules, we didn't ha...( read more)ve people spouting that there had to be a good story along with the gore, and a low budget was something to be merited rather than a reason to hate it. When the fuck did low budget become uncool? Fucking fanboys are determined to destroy every genre they decide they like. I'll let everyone in on a secret. Before Resident Evil all zombie films were low budget and almost all of them were badly done. And I loved every minute of them.
    Which brings me to Automaton Transfusion, a fun, over the top gory zombie film that was shot in just 9 days. Considering the amount of camera setups and the fact that it does tell a coherent story, that is something to be admired. Hats off to these kids for making a decent entry into the genre. Sure it looks as if it were shot off a cell phone, the characters are about as one dimensional as a really, really one dimensional thing and the story is something you've seen before, but the gore... oh the sweet, succulent gore.
    Anyway, I do understand horror fans binging on the genre for a couple years now and becoming sick of formulas, damning a movie completely for not being the most amazing movie they've ever seen. Even genre magazines are giving negative reviews to any movie that isn't mind blowingly amazing. Much like the way you'd get bored of the same food if you ate it every day, these critics should recognize that it's time to move on, they no longer enjoy the wonders of the horror genre. The balls out enthusiasm and the gore drenched scenes in a movie like this should have them smiling rather than smugly saying, "I'm bored! Next!". Well, much like how the 90s killed the horror genre, these petty critics and fanboys will probably have a part in destroying it again. Oh well, I'll still enjoy the heck out of films like this.
  • November 7, 2009
    Just ridiculous. Shot like Blair Witch Project and Quaratine, but I don't think that was intended. I got a little motion sickness.
  • October 3, 2009
    the movie just brings absolutly nothing new to the table, and worse its independent low budget garbage. apparently the ending is suppose to be good but i couldn't sit through more than 1 hour so i wouldnt know
  • August 28, 2009
    not the best zombie movie i've seen but still a good movie.pretty well done and the make up effects were really good for a movie that only cost 30,000 to make.bottom like if you want to see a really gory zombie movie then you need to watch this one.
  • August 21, 2009
    This was probably the worst movie I have EVER seen!
  • August 21, 2009
    yea the acting's bad the writing's bad but i think if this dvd is in the 9.99 bin you should pick it up...it tries to explain why they're zombies......it has a few different deaths i've never seen in zombie movies before......it's slow for the first 20 mins......and it's 75 mins ...( read more)long..........decent zombie movie

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  • kaylalynn96
    August 21, 2009
    This was probably by far the worst movie I have EVER seen! But in all fairness I did get a good laugh at this movie! It was tacky. Awful acting. And the worst zombie's ever! It was truly awful. But as I said before you want a good laugh this will do it! [If you have a twisted sense of humor.]
  • lovecyn4ever
    April 24, 2008
    Not so much thought for a good storyline & even some scenarios wasn't so believable but considering is a low-budget film shot in 9 days for $30,000 i believe,it achieve a lot of good things that other films with bigger budget don't accomplish.The film manage to have some actors that were convincing with their characters & others just over the top,decent music & some well done gory effects.75 mins wasn't so bad & it gets down with the zombie action right away.I found this zombie film entertaining & compared to so many zombie films i seen,this wasn't so bad.Like most zombie films ,don't expect nothing original.

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