if you’re a gore hound who is willing to let a novice filmmaker slide on the technical aspects of filmmaking, check out Automation Transfusion
Audio:
As with most low-budget fare, the Dolby Digital audio track isn´t going to win any awards any time soon, but it´s a bit better quality than the visuals.
Extras:
On the feature-length commentary, director Steven C. Miller, producer William Clevinger, and executive producer Mark Thalman discuss the film´s low budget, having to change shooting locations, and the general trials and tribulations inherit to shooting an indie horror flick. It´s fairly informative, and they sound like they´d be a fun group to work with on a splatter film.
The four deleted scenes with optional commentary amount to about two-and-a-half minutes of screen time that was best left on the cutting room floor. With the exception of about forty-five seconds of extra zombie footage, it´s nothing worth mentioning, other than the fact that the deleted footage actually looks crisper and clearer than the film itself. "Trails & Tribulations: The Making of Automaton Transfusion" is an enjoyable twenty-five-minute featurette overflowing with behind-the-scenes footage and great interviews with the cast and filmmakers.
Also included are two music videos and the director´s short film "Suffer or Sacrifice" that was shot, edited, and scored over the course of forty-eight hours. None of these are worth viewing, especially not the "Blinded Black" or "Dancefloor Tragedy" videos. They are just as bad as their band names suggest.
Film Value:
If you want a zombie film that has serious storytelling, a well-formatted script, and trained actors, check out "28 Days Later" or the original "Night of the Living Dead." But if you´re a gore hound who is willing to let a novice filmmaker slide on the technical aspects of filmmaking, check out "Automation Transfusion," the first film to give the notorious zombie party scene in "Dead Alive" a run for its money. And with this being the first part of a planned trilogy, I can´t wait to see the recently announced sequel, "Automation Transfusion: Contingency," set to arrive in 2009.
As with most low-budget fare, the Dolby Digital audio track isn´t going to win any awards any time soon, but it´s a bit better quality than the visuals.
Extras:
On the feature-length commentary, director Steven C. Miller, producer William Clevinger, and executive producer Mark Thalman discuss the film´s low budget, having to change shooting locations, and the general trials and tribulations inherit to shooting an indie horror flick. It´s fairly informative, and they sound like they´d be a fun group to work with on a splatter film.
The four deleted scenes with optional commentary amount to about two-and-a-half minutes of screen time that was best left on the cutting room floor. With the exception of about forty-five seconds of extra zombie footage, it´s nothing worth mentioning, other than the fact that the deleted footage actually looks crisper and clearer than the film itself. "Trails & Tribulations: The Making of Automaton Transfusion" is an enjoyable twenty-five-minute featurette overflowing with behind-the-scenes footage and great interviews with the cast and filmmakers.
Also included are two music videos and the director´s short film "Suffer or Sacrifice" that was shot, edited, and scored over the course of forty-eight hours. None of these are worth viewing, especially not the "Blinded Black" or "Dancefloor Tragedy" videos. They are just as bad as their band names suggest.
Film Value:
If you want a zombie film that has serious storytelling, a well-formatted script, and trained actors, check out "28 Days Later" or the original "Night of the Living Dead." But if you´re a gore hound who is willing to let a novice filmmaker slide on the technical aspects of filmmaking, check out "Automation Transfusion," the first film to give the notorious zombie party scene in "Dead Alive" a run for its money. And with this being the first part of a planned trilogy, I can´t wait to see the recently announced sequel, "Automation Transfusion: Contingency," set to arrive in 2009.
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