Garrett Jones, Juliet Reeves, William Howard Bowman, Rowan Bousaid, Ashley Elizabeth Pierce

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 quick...( read more  read more... )ly 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.
  • January 27, 2010
    Good, solid zombie movie. Nice to see a movie that doesn't look like a really low budget film. Plot isn't very deep, but then again, it's a zombie movie.
  • January 8, 2010
    Even though this is a low budget zombie horror and the plot isn't original I still enjoyed this movie. The US Army begins an experiment at a town to resurrect the dead in order so that it can use them to fight in combat. However, it spirals out of control and it's left to 3 teena...( read more)gers to try and find a way out of the place before they become food fodder for the undead. Don't expect great acting or good camerawork but the gore on display is very good. I hated the fact that it finishes so abruptly but the sequel comes out this year so I look forward to seeing how the story concludes. There's a nod to the Evil Dead movies when one of the teenagers armed with a chainsaw and ready to plough into the zombies says "Ash would have been proud of me"!
  • January 7, 2010
    Now I know that people may hate me for saying this but I prefer this film to Diary of the Dead. A lot of people slagged this movie off. Ok the acting wasn't that good and the story may not have been worthy of an Oscar, but if you just take it for what it is, you'll enjoy it. I bo...( read more)ught this on DVD in the UK via the name Zombie Transfusion. I, like everyone else expected the worst but I found that I enjoyed it. It is fairly decent for a low brow, low budget, blood and guts fest. I have seen much worse zombie films that try to be like Romero's, this is better than most. I feel like this film is being underappeciated. If you use your brain, it's true you won't like it. However if you turn your brain off and just enjoy it for the schlock fun that it is, you'll enjoy it a hell of a lot more. The special FX were fairly good, even looking realistic in a couple of scenes. Every death has shades of other horror movies at the core. There is even a scene that rivals Anthopopagus the beast where a zombie gives a woman a home birth with a difference. The acting was ok, some did ham it up but that didn't spoil the film for me. Yes I'm afraid that these zombies were the running kind but the story does explain why they are able to run if you listen closely. The fx on the zombies was good in some parts but the rest of the time, they just had blood splattered or smeared on their faces. The action comes thick and fast that gets your blood pumping and the camera doesn't shy away from the violence and gore. In fact some of it is shown in great detail. Mind you so did some of the characters by the end. The standoff towards the end was worth watching as you can see that the director was heavily influenced by Evil Dead and the videogame Left 4 Dead. Zombie Transfusion aka Automaton tranfusion is a good 1hr 20 mins of gruesome goodness and even a good laugh. Just face it, zombie movies are what they are and they ain't gonna change, so just accept it and enjoy it.
  • December 29, 2009
    Cool movie, nice gore
  • 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.

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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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