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Automaton Transfusion is an indie horror film written and directed by Steven C Miller.

Automaton Transfusion was shot on location in Orlando, Florida on a very low budget. It is intended to be the first of a trilogy of horror movies, and emulates classic examples of the genre. The film was purchased and released by Dimension Extreme, the straight-to-DVD genre arm of The Weinstein Company.

The film was one of Fangoria's top 10 Horror films of 2006. Miller, the film's writer/director, is currently prepping a Werewolf Action film called "Bad Moon Rising."

Plot summary

In the early 1970s when everyone in America was worrying about what was going on in Vietnam, the United States Army was secretly developing a way to reanimate the dead. Their intention was to have the dead fight instead of the living, but the experiments were shut down when the reanimated corpses were unable to control their hunger for human flesh.

Thirty years later the army decides to reopen the project. Grover City, because of its remote location, would be the home of their main testing facilities. Without warning, the Grover City experiments go horribly wrong and the reanimated corpses go on a rampage, eating everyone in sight.

With the town overtaken by zombies, a group of High School seniors take it upon themselves to fight back and find a cure for the disease.

Reception

Much hype was built up for this movie before release. In the trailer for the film, it was called "The film that defines our culture." Upon release the film received mixed reviews from critics and a generally negative reaction from audiences. Bloody Disgusting's "Mr. Disgusting" gave the film a 7 out of 10 rating calling it the "Holy Grail of true independent horror films." ^[1] Additionally, scifipulse.net's Nicholas Yanes gave the film a positive review and claimed that "If you are a zombie film aficionado, you will want this to be part of your collection."^[2] Dread Central's "Uncle Creepy", on the other hand, gave the film a 2.5 out of 5 rating, stating, "I wanted to love this movie. I wanted this to be the next big thing. It just wasn't." ^[3] Cult cinema review site Wildside Cinema granted the film 2 out of 5 stars and called it, "a major let down" ^[4] The film received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 10 from the Internet Movie Database. Negative points had to do with the stale acting, mediocre story and an abrupt "To Be Continued" ending. ^[5] Although there was positive notes about the impressive gore effects and the fact that the film was made on a $30,000 budget.

External links

• Automaton Transfusion at the Internet Movie Database
• The Movie Myspace
• The Trailer at YouTube

References